Bahamas survive without branching into other areas of tourism? The tourism industry today is big business for a country‚ it is the number one industry of the Bahamas. It is the migration of individuals from one place to another for a short period of time. There are two types of tourism‚ domestic and foreign. People travel for recreation‚ business‚ sports‚ education and for religious or medical purposes. Tourism is a very competitive industry. It accounts for seventy percent of the country’s national
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Medical tourism Indian Medical Travel: A Priority Sector The Indian economy’s steady growth rate is also being reflected in the Indian healthcare and medical travel industry. Healthcare and medical health travel are priority areas for India‚ and the government has increased its budgetary outlay for medical travel and foreign investment. Customs duties on the import of medical equipment have been slashed‚ and special incentives are being offered for future private healthcare facilities. Government
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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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The intent of this paper is to discuss the stakeholder’s concerns relative to the significance of perceived performance criteria and the related performance outcomes in a construction sector environment located in Hong Kong. The key participants to this study consisted of clients‚ designers‚ consultants and contractors. Using a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)‚ the research established nine performance criteria namely profitability‚ care for environmental protection‚ timeliness of project delivery
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island of Labuan. The situation analysis of the case study is on the steps taken by Malaysian government in positioning Malaysia itself as a brand for the tourism industry and promoting on the destination that will attracts people from all the part of the world. This case study also to understand the important of tourism as a source of profit for a country and the process and strategic developed by government to promote Malaysia as a tourist destination and Malaysia as a destination brand‚ besides the
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resources as countryside capital: The case of rural tourism Brian Garrod Roz Wornell‚ Ray Youell Institute of Rural Sciences‚ University of Wales Aberystwyth‚ Llanbadarn Campus‚ Aberystwyth‚ SY23 3AL‚ UK Abstract Commentators tend to agree that the rural resource is becoming increasingly subject to pressures arising from an ever wider range of economic‚ social‚ political and environmental influences. This paper focuses on the case of rural tourism in illustrating the advantages of adopting a sustainable
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| 18-19 | Introduction Tourism and hospitality business is one of the fastest emergent industries over the over world. The UK is considered one of the leaders of rapid introduction of global tourism business. The tourism sector in UK is progressively rising year by year for various favorable factors and among them most important dominating factors are technological and capital availability related (Buhalis‚ 2012). In the earlier period‚ the world tourism industry has been prejudiced by three
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and undiscovered destinations in the world. A land of breathtaking beauty and untouched things transforming into modernized world. Fast facts Myanmar is an ethnically diverse nation with 135 distinct ethnic group officially recognized by Myanmar government. These are grouped into eight major national ethnic races such as Kachin‚ Kayar‚ Kayin‚ Chin‚ Bamar‚ Mon‚ Rakhine‚ and Shan. The "major national ethnic races" are grouped primarily according to region rather than linguistic or ethnic affiliation
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After more than a decade of spectacular growth‚ Tourism has played an important role in the development of Cambodia. It has brought employment‚ improvements in infrastructure‚ training and general education and living standards for many people‚ and raised the international profile of Cambodia. Its growth has helped diversify economic activity‚ and broaden the base of foreign earnings. Tourism statistics of Cambodia In recent years‚ the question of how to increase the yield from each tourist;
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14/11/2011 HERITAGE TOURISM & MUSEUM MANAGEMENT LESSON 2: TOURISM‚ HERITAGE & HERITAGE TOURISM (1st PART) Dr Christina Bonarou bonarou@gmail.com Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki‚ Greece Department of Tourism Management Definitions of tourism 2 All travel is not tourism. “Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes
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