Sustainable tourism: learning from Indian religious traditions Vasanti Gupta Director of Insight India‚ Headington‚ Oxford‚ UK Keywords Ethics‚ Green issues‚ India‚ Tourism The context Pilgrimage to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion is an age-old tradition‚ followed by religions all over the world. The fact that it is often carried out on foot‚ is an older form and has many religious connotations‚ has made people overlook it as a form of tourism. Apart from the devotional
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Threats may be created by a broad range of relationships and circumstances. When a relationship or circumstances creates a threat‚ such a threat could compromise‚ or could be perceived to compromise‚ a professional accountant’s compliance with the fundamental principles. A circumstance or relationship may create more than one threat‚ and a threat may affect compliance with more than fundamental principle. Threats fall into one or more of the following categories: (a) Self-interest threat – the threat
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impacts of Hospitality and Tourism Industry of Maldives By Mauroof Zakir 2011 1. Introduction of hospitality and tourism industry of Maldives An island nation in the middle of Indian Ocean‚ consisting of 26 coral atolls dominated by over 90% of Sea and its situated in about 700 km south west of Sri-Lanka is so call Maldives. In total‚ these geographical atolls contain about 1‚190 islands of which only less than 200 are inhabited. In the Maldives‚ the tourism industry is identical with resort
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71-80 ISSN 2229 -600X IMPACT OF RECESSION ON TOURISM INDUSTRY Sherwood College of Professional Management‚Lucknow ABSTRACT Tourism industry has contributed enormously in the flourishing graph of India ’s economy by attracting a huge number of both foreign and domestic tourists travelling for professional as well as holiday purpose. Terror threat‚ swine flu scare and hike in air fares and above all the great economic depression hit the tourism sector hard in 2009 with number of foreigners visiting
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– Siovhan Tan Referring to examples‚ discuss the threats to biodiversity hotspots and why these threats could prove critical (15 marks) Biodiversity hotspots are areas in the natural environment that contain some of the biggest concentration of flora and fauna in the world‚ often containing many rare and endangered species. However many of these ecosystems are threatened by the likes of climate change‚ increased urbanisation/land use and tourism developments which can prove critical for the wellbeing
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Jimmy Neutron Mrs. Dinkleberg English 101 11 April 2014 Cyber Threats on the Rise Every day advances in technology happen. In the last few decades‚ computer technology has advanced past many technological barriers. Almost every aspect of everyone’s life has some dealing with computers in it. With all this being said‚ computer cyber threats are on a rise in every economy in the world. Cyber threats in America‚ have caused the government to try and control American internet access‚ have cost
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important role there as well‚ as they are central elements of the integration in society‚ and often taken in consideration in all kinds of implementations in the areas of town planning and infrastructure. The assessment of quality of life differs not only from disciplines to disciplines‚ but also within the disciplines. Some scientists put the satisfaction of individual needs in the centre of their quality of life reflection. Others concentrate on objective living conditions and the subjective well being
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BUSINESS TOURISM MANAGEMENT EA [pic] INDIVIDUAL REPORT Business tourism can be defined as a convention‚ in the sense of a meeting‚ is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. Business tourism industry is growing rapidly worldwide.Business tourism is having its own features which define it from the other types of tourism‚ and I would mention it in order to explain the importance of the industry
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July 21‚ 2011 Journal # 2: Cole‚ “10 Major Threats to the Environment”‚ WAE277-279 Part one: Summary According to the article‚ “10 Major Threats to the Environment’’ by Jeremy Iggers (the author) discusses about global warming and 10 major threats to the environment and what we can do to minimize it. There is a lot of evidence pointing to the earth getting warmer because of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is released when fossil fuels are being burnt. As a result‚ polar caps
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1 Table of Contents Section Greetings from Team Cerebration About NUS Business School Cerebration 2009: Our Case Sponsors Cerebration 2009: Strategic Partner SPRING Singapore Cerebration 2009: Competition Structure and Format Cerebration 2009: Targeted Timelines Instructions: Round 1 (Executive Summary) Instructions: Round 2 (Making the Business Plan) Case study: Asiatravel.com Page # 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Asiatravel.com 2 Greetings from Team Cerebration Thank you for registering for
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