MODULE 2 DBA STUDY GUIDE Key Terms 1. Caste: 2. Dynasty: 3. Geography: 4. Relative Location: 5. Empire: 6. Code (as in Hammurabi’s): 7. Migration (both internal and external): 8. Ethnicity: 9. Pharaoh: 10. Enlightenment (as in Buddhist belief): 1. Relative Location: This is one of the 5 themes of geography. It is telling where one place is located compared to another. For example‚ Jacksonville is north of Miami. The key is to use the directional term
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Tourism in Post-Crisis is Tourism in Pre-Crisis: A Review of the Literature on Crisis Management in Tourism 2006-1 Dr Christof Pforr Curtin University of Technology School of Management Working Paper Series 2006-1 Tourism in Post-Crisis is Tourism in Pre-Crisis: A Review of the Literature on Crisis Management in Tourism Dr Christof Pforr Curtin University of Technology School of Management GPO Box U1987 Perth WA 6845 Australia Tourism in Post-Crisis is Tourism in Pre-Crisis: A Review
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Chapter 1 – Introduction to Tourism Policy & Planning What is Policy? The Importance of defining policy - Clarifying what policy is from different perspectives provides a means for people to understand what it is we are talking about‚ examining or researching gives direction. - Provide boundaries to the subject matter. - Provide a common platform for understanding. - Clarify who is involved and/or responsible. Definitions of Policy - Thomas Dye – “whatever governments choose to do or not
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globalization of tourism. When most of the islands became independent from foreign rule they needed to build up a working economy. Some of the bigger more resource rich island nations started to produce and export goods but many of the smaller island states did not have this opportunity. When tourism started to grow‚ both types of islands benefitted a lot from it‚ but it was the most important for the smaller islands that had basically no foreign income at all. Step by step the importance of tourism grew in
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TOPIC:THE EXOTIC TOURISM IN INDIA WHAT IS TOURISM? Before hitting the target of tourism in india‚let us first know what do we mean by TOURISM.(international).Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes.What the WTO(World Tourism Organisation) tells is that Tourism is people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes".Now this can be considered as an exact definition
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Geography essay Mass tourism is better than no tourism‚ do you agree? Yes‚ I agree with this point because countries which do not have tourism nowadays are hard to imagine nowadays if it is not a country with war or a desert through it entirely‚ although even countries with mostly desert have quite a bit of tourists in them so it is far more easy to imagine a town or village with no tourism. And then there are those places with mass tourism which only have one noticeable problem – Overcrowding
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Annotated Bibliography Article 1: Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research – Wine Tourism in Champagne. Charters‚ S & Menival‚ D 2011‚ ‘Wine Tourism in Champagne’‚ Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research‚ vol. 35‚ no. 1‚ pp. 102-118‚ viewed‚ 6th May 2013‚ <http://jht.sagepub.com/content/35/1/102.full.pdf+html>. The author of this article’s goal is to emphasis the understanding about wine and tourism in Champagne. Both of the authors chose to concentrate this study mainly
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Outline the geographical processes relevant to the management of the Cronulla‚ Wanda and Kurnell area. The Cronulla‚ Kurnell and Wanda region sites are ecologically and culturally significant. The Cronulla‚ Wanda and Kurnell areas are filled with beautiful beaches‚ magnificent headlands and various other wonderful features‚ being well over 15000 years old this region showcases some magnificent attractions. These regions however are now faced with issues regarding enviromental degradation and
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In a newspaper article “Eco-tourism: It’s not easy being green”[1] dated in June‚ 2007‚ the author criticizing there are still ecological damages‚ especially the effect to the wild animals that accompanies the eco-tourism. It says‚ Eco-tourism‚ generally defined as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people”‚ is often misunderstood. And most of the travelers‚ even they are concerned about the environment of the places they visit
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1. Why is Mappleton threatened by coastal erosion? The plain of Holderness did not exist before the Ice Age. It was once a wide bay backed by chalk cliffs running from Flamborough Head to Hessle‚ west of the city of Hull. Today Holderness is made up of glacial tills – sands and clays deposited by ice sheets during the Ice Age (Figure 4). The tills are soft and unstable and have little resistance to erosion. The low cliffs repeatedly slump down along rotational slip planes‚ lubricated by water which
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