Health Tourism A Boon or Curse? What is it? Medical tourism (also called medical travel‚ health tourism or global health care) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and themass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care. Such services typically include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeriessuch as joint replacement (knee/hip)‚ cardiac surgery‚ dental surgery‚ and cosmetic surgeries. However‚ virtually
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To many‚ sustainable tourism might be interpreted as sustaining attractions just to ensure there is a continuation of visitors and tourists coming in. However‚ this understanding is too juvenile. According to a 1987 report‚ Our Common Future‚ sustainable development is define as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ (WCED‚ 1987). Fundamentally‚ sustainable development ‘advocates the wise use and conservation
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Spain Tourism is very popular because of its geographical and cultural diversity. The geographical diversity extends from hills to deserts.Spain Tourism is a trip where people can keep themselves busy in exploring the vast natural landscape or can indulge into exploring the historical buildings or the architectural monuments. Spain Tourism is so popular among people that Spain has been ranked third in terms of touring in the whole world and more and more people are searching for Tourism Travel
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Annals of Tourism Research‚ Vol. xx‚ No. xx‚ pp. 153–174‚ 2013 0160-7383/$ - see front matter Ó 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Printed in Great Britain www.elsevier.com/locate/atoures http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2012.12.002 A MODEL OF ‘CREATIVE EXPERIENCE’ IN CREATIVE TOURISM Siow-Kian Tan National Cheng Kung University‚ Taiwan‚ ROC Shiann-Far Kung National Cheng Kung University‚ Taiwan‚ ROC Ding-Bang Luh National Cheng Kung University‚ Taiwan‚ ROC Abstract:
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SEX TOURISM According to the definition of the World Trade Organization (WTO)‚ sex tourism refers to organized trips‚ within or outside the tourist industry‚ to engage in a commercial sexual relationship. Sex tourism can be domestic or international‚ involving cross-border trips for the same purpose. United Nations‚ defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the tourism sector‚ or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks‚ with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial
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Executive Summary Cruise tourism is becoming an increasingly popular “leisure choice” worldwide‚ and keeping this point in mind cruise tourism potential of India is vast and is still in infancy stage. Mumbai as the commercial capital and gate way of India possess the great potential of cruise tourism as this place sees the highest number of tourist coming in and going out so it becomes the necessity of the time to convert Mumbai port from “port of call” to “home port”. This report has been prepared
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Tourism in India - 13 million child labour in tourism sector India Booming in Child Labour! Its shameful to know that India as an emerging market or power has rampant growth of child labour as well. Tourism in India is booming….growing….scaling new heights…country is earning well in foreign exchange but there is dark side to this story. As per the International Labour Organisation‚ 13 million children are employed in tourism sector in India which is gross violation of law and illegal. The law
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BENEFITS CHOOSING OF HOSPTALITY AND TOURISM COURSE. Assalamualaikum and good morning to all friends. Today I want sharing to all about benefits choosing hospitality and tourism course. As we know‚ our college also have this course. This course had a 7 semester in 2 ½ years. It also concentrated in culinary art‚ catering and restaurant. Let me introduce about what a hospitality. Hospitality means the friendly reception and treatment of guest or strangers and the quality or disposition of receiving
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Dixon Edwards October 26‚ 2010 Sex Tourism Sex tourism is the act of tourists traveling to engage in sexual activity with prostitutes that are residents of the destination. A sex tourist is an adult that travels in order to have legal consensual sexual activities with another adult for gifts and most often money. By using existing tourism methods of travel these activities have become easily feasible for any individual looking to explore this sector of tourism. Creating a normal vacation with the
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BANK OF JAPAN’S MEETING IN MARCH 2006: AN END TO THE QUANTITATIVE EASING POLICY? Japan underwent a decade-long odyssey with deflation and the zero-bound problem. Economic activity in Japan slowed precipitously following the collapse of the socalled bubble economy in December 1989‚ and Japan began to experience deflation by early 1995. During this initial period‚ while the economy was slowing‚ forecasters and policymakers consistently underestimated the extent of Japan’s economic malaise. Consequently
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