Tourism 1) Background and Trends 2) Reasons for growth in Tourism 3) Impacts of growth in Tourism 4) Sustainable Tourism 5) Approaches to Sustainable Tourism 1) Background and Trends Tourists: Persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes. Tourist destination area: A place that tourists travel to Tourists generating area: A place where tourists come from (source) Tourism:
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CASE STUDY IN TRAVEL‚ HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM Tourism in Singapore 6 May 2013 Table of Contents 1 Introduction The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board was first established in 1964 with the mandate to promote Singapore as a tourist destination. We began work with a small staff strength of 25 and that year‚ we welcomed 91‚000 visitors. The Merlion was created as a symbol as part of marketing campaigns. (Anon.‚ 2013) Travel agent licensing and tourist guide training were
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Unit 1- Task 3 Interrelationships in Travel and Tourism Individual businesses must work in partnership with other organisations in order to be successful. Tourism is a very competitive and complex sector and many companies develop links with other businesses as a way of maximising profits. If for example Thomas cook didn’t work with other hotels‚ insurance companies‚ company picks up on arrival‚ Thomas cook wouldn’t make any profits‚ as customers wouldn’t want to book a holiday with a company who
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Sports Tourism Sports Tourism is viewed as international trips that are made to watch sporting events. There is no universally accepted definition of sports tourism‚ but the terms ‘sport tourism’ and ‘sport tourist’ are often found in literature review. Stuart Hall‚ a cultural theorist and sociologist from Kingston‚ Jamaica is one of the many theorists that have formulated an opinion of the definition of sports tourism. Hall is under the belief that sports tourism falls into two categories
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Promotion of Health Tourism in India The global growth in the flow of patients and health professionals as well as medical technology‚ capital funding and regulatory regimes across national borders has given rise to new patterns of consumption and production of healthcare services over recent decades. The free movement of goods and services under the auspices of the World Trade Organization and its General Agreement on Trade in Services has accelerated the liberalization of the trade in health
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The Framework of Tourism: Towards a Definition of Tourism‚ Tourist‚ and the Tourist Industry (Leiper‚ 1979) Find six academic definitions for tourism‚ tourist or travel. Discuss each of these six definitions and explain the merits and efficiencies of each one‚ making connections with the points raised by Leiper (1979) where possible. Then provide an overall discussion about which definition is best and for what reason/s. Introduction Six definitions for the term Tourism were found from a variety
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Nielson et al. (2001) applied the marketıng ’paradigm’ to a study of Galway City in Ireland‚which aims to ’develop its tourism product while maintaining its environment.’ They emphasis the distinctiveness of place and the necessity of identifying: the design of the right mix of features and services‚ the development of an image that is attractive to the target market‚the delivery of the destination’s products and services in an accessible way and the promotion of the destination’s values and image
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SWOT Analysis Strength Strengths are one of the internal factor lead the organization to the success pathway and the business which allow you to operate more effectively than your competitors. For example‚ strength could be your specialist technical knowledge. As Nestle is a well-known brand in the world‚ so this is good for NESCAFÉ to make any further development and it is believed that NESCAFÉ is the major player in coffee market and it has a strong brand names because of associating
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SWOT Analysis of SONY Strength One of Sony’s greatest strengths is their ability to produce innovative‚ quality products. Sony’s web page states “Sony innovations have become part of mainstream culture‚ including: the first magnetic tape and tape recorder in 1950; the transistor radio in 1955; the world’s first all-transistor TV set in 1960; the world’s first color video cassette recorder in 1971; the Walkman personal stereo in 1979; the Compact Disc (CD) in 1982; the first 8mm camcorder in
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Topic: Negative Tourism Impacts Prediction * Risk factors of tourism * Disadvantages of tourism * Conservation of risk factors of tourism Check Prediction * List of tourism impacts * Side effects of tourism impacts * Conservation of natural resources Note Nowadays‚ tourism started to earn itself a very bad name due to thoughtless development‚ and disruption of local cultures‚ values and economies‚ during the birth of mass international travel. *
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