Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes".[1] Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. After slowly recovering from the contraction resulting from the late-2000s recession‚ where tourism suffered a strong slowdown from the second half of 2008 through the
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Tourism Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes" Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2011‚ there were over 983 million international tourist arrivals worldwide‚ representing a growth of 4.6% when compared to US$ 940 billion in 2010.[2][3] International
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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Introduction Host Community participation in tourism developments in South Africa forms an integral part of the government objectives in the tourism industry which are inter alia to build a world class tourism industry and to integrate historically disadvantaged people into the mainstream of the industry. However‚ sense of community and participation forms some of the crucial factors which can affect processes of tourism development as postulated by Aref
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HOW TOURISM CAN CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIO-CULTURAL CONSERVATION Negative socio-cultural impacts from tourism How tourism can contribute to socio-cultural development Tourism can contribute to positive developments‚ not just negative impacts. It has the potential to promote social development through employment creation‚ income redistribution and poverty alleviation. Other potential positive impacts of tourism include: Tourism as a force for peace Traveling brings people into contact with each other and
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IN PRESS Tourism Management 27 (2006) 1373–1385 www.elsevier.com/locate/tourman The role of community involvement and number/type of visitors on tourism impacts: A controlled comparison of Annapurna‚ Nepal and Northwest Yunnan‚ China$ Gyan P. Nyaupanea‚Â Duarte B. Moraisb‚ Lorraine Dowlerc a Tourism Development and Management‚ School of Community Resources and Development‚ Arizona State University‚ P.O. Box 874703‚ Tempe‚ AZ 85287‚ USA b Recreation‚ Park‚ and Tourism Management‚
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This study identifies the understanding of the causes and effect of child sex tourism in Belize. Sex tourism has become a problem to many countries around the world and it is now being exposed in Belize. Children and adults are becoming more engaged in this activity in exchange of money and assistances. Child Sex Tourism in return has negative effects to both the economy and its victims and also creating a social impact to the country. This research can assist in bringing awareness to the country
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respondents. A. Nature of Research Statement of the problem Are the LPU Tourism Students satisfied with the tourism uniforms bought from LPU based on affordability‚ comfort‚ quality and availability? Scope and limitations This study seeks to find out the over-all satisfaction of the LPU tourism students on the tourism bought in LPU. Thus‚ the locales of this study are Lyceum of the Philippines University- Manila Tourism students of Academic year 2014-2015. Significance of the Study This research
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performance. At this moment Marriott International has around 3801 properties 660394 rooms in 74 countries and territories (http://www.marriott.com/hotel-development/real-estateinvestments.mi). The company is present in different markets in the tourism sector like: full service lodging‚ select service lodging‚ extended service lodging‚ timeshare and at one point in history they were having theme parks as well which were sold in 1984. Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under
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aims to describe the tourism policy and strategies in national and state contexts‚ to determine the inherent direction and prospects or potential in the tourism development of Kuala Lumpur as a tourist-friendly destination. The results show that some aspects need to be emphasized and have similarities in each of policies and strategies at the national and state level. This shows that policies made at national level could be followed at state level‚ so that each line of tourism development planning
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B. A. PROGRAMME APPLICATION COURSES TOURISM Convenor & Coordinator : Prof. K.V. Bhanumurthy Joint Coordinator : Dr. Abha Mathur 1 Tourism Course Objective The application course aims to familiarize the students with a brief background of tourism‚ its concepts‚ development and scope with special reference to India. Expected Learning Objectives Considering that Tourism Industry is experiencing a phenomenal growth world over‚ a student who has studied this course would
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