1 Hospitality Industry 1.1 Introduction to Hospitality Industry 1.1.1 The Nature of the Hospitality Industry What is the meaning of HOSPITALITY? There have been different definitions of Hospitality. Broadly speaking‚ Hospitality is the act of kindness in welcoming and looking after the basic needs of guests or strangers‚ mainly in relation to food‚ drink and accommodation. A contemporary explanation of Hospitality refers to the relationship process between a guest and a host. When
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John Urry’s‚ The Tourist Gaze (1990)‚ interpolates the discussion of tourism in pleasure sought in environments outside the “normal”. The intersectionality of cultural discourse and the interoperability of socioeconomic tourism act‚ in part‚ of “consuming goods and services which are in some sense unnecessary” (1). There is a corollary between “supposedly” generated forms of “pleasure experiences” which are desired for their atypical “set of different scenes” (1). “landscapes or townscapes [which]
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Gateway communities are defined as communities in close proximity to public lands‚ serve as an entry point to public lands‚ and have an economic influence of public lands. For example‚ gateway communities include towns within the proximity of national and state forests‚ monuments‚ refuges‚ grasslands‚ wild and scenic river corridors‚ lakeshores‚ and parks. Tourists and visitors use these communities as gateways to such parks. Kurtz (2010) mentioned that gateway communities have characteristically
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development‚ promotion and expansion of tourism in India. one of the biggest Hospitality companies in India ITDC is running hotels‚ restaurants‚ provides transportation facilities for tourists‚ provides entertainment and duty free shopping. The company has several departments to cater to several requirement of travelers. Ashok Travels & Tours‚ Ashok Group of Hotels‚ Ashok International Trade Division‚ Ashok Creativity‚ Ashok Institute of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Ashok Consultancy
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Benefits and Problems Associated with Globalisation Globalisation brings both benefits and problems to different groups of both the developing and developed world. One benefit of globalisation is the evidence of consumer prices being reduced worldwide. This has a positive effect on the finance of people especially in developing countries‚ as more people are able to afford to buy both essential and non-essential products without denting their income. However for companies supplying these products
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Methodology Grasmere‚ Lake District. Year 10 Geography GCSE students at St James High School in Cheadle got set a hypothesis which was ‘is Grasmere a honey pot centre’ to investigate this further we took a one night trip to The Lake District‚ Grasmere. The reason why we picked Grasmere is because it is easy access to get there‚ cheap and not far to travel. On the 5th of July 59 students and I got the coach to Grasmere at 10am which took round about two hours. Before we arrived at the Youth Hostel
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E-Commerce and Travel/Tourism Issues and Challenges Hannes Werthner EC3 – E-Commerce Competence Center‚ Vienna IFITT Context • Globalization (alliances - mergers) and differentiation complexity • Convergence (also industries) and „cross overs“ • Information economy – importance of digital products and information as integral partof economic activities (Bell 1973‚ Tapscott 1998) • Network economy – growing interdependencies among (economic) actors with network e ffects (Kelly 1999)
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Dubai is currently one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Urban sprawl is becoming the subject of analysis through modern decades concerning the management of urban growth. It described the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into rural areas‚ following the outward expansion of cities; it is believed that the city of Dubai has followed this method. Each city has shaped its own settlement patterns over time‚ either through the oldest and most widely quoted models
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Tourism has become one of the most popular global leisure activities in the past decade. Two factors are considered when choosing a destination; push and pull factors. Both factors contribute to destinations chosen by tourists while push factors concentrate on internal motives‚ pull factors focus on external motives. It is important for tourism providers to understand tourists’ motives for with this they’re able to work towards and visualize the end destination of the trip. When a tourist begins
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Tourist Motivation Introduction: Nowadays‚ many destinations try to attract more international tourists and take advantage in tourism industry. Therefore‚ many researchers conduct a lot of reach to explore tourists’ behavior. Tourists’ motivation is one of the most popular reach topics to identify the behavior of the tourists. Although motivation is only one variable explaining tourist behavior‚ it is regarded as one of the most important variables because it is a force behind all behavior
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