“Harmful effects of tourism” There is no doubt that visiting new places‚ opening interesting corners of the planet and exploring exotic sights are always attractive. But often people forget about main purposes of tourism‚ by damaging our nature. That is why the quality of environment has become the essential problem for tourism. And although tourism can be very beneficial and useful‚ it impacts on our nature in a harmful way. So‚ to be or not to be...a tourist? Tourism is an activity that conceals
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The Global Car Industry Facing Recession and a Credit Crisis Case study Reference no 309-032-1 This case was written by Nick S Potter‚ Birmingham Business School‚ University of Birmingham. It is intended to be used as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. The case was compiled from published sources. © 2009‚ Birmingham Business School‚ University of Birmingham. No part of this publication may be copied
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& Minerals‚ Saudi Arabia The Role of Architecture on the Tourism Industry: Chapter 11 ABSTRACT This chapter aims to shed light on the nature of architecture‚ its technological and cultural ramifications on tourism industry. It elucidates the background of issues regarding the interaction between the fields of cultural production (architecture) and cultural consumption (tourism). The chapter argues that power of tourism industry has reached‚ under the pressure of global economics‚ to a capacity
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expectations were financial services‚ especially brokerage houses. Big Wall Street firms‚ including Merrill Lynch & Co. and PaineWebber Inc.‚ have reported surprisingly large earnings during what could be a record year for the securities industry. Where other industries - including Wall Street - have retrenched‚ big technology companies are still struggling. IBM‚ the No. 1 computer company‚ yesterday reported a loss of $2.8 billion in the third quarter‚ demonstrating it still hasn’t coped with the
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THE PHILIPPINE TOURISM INDUSTRY ANALYSIS I. SCANNING OF THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT A. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT 1. ECONOMIC INDICATORS Income‚ employment‚ balance of payments and investments are all the positive impacts of the tourism industry. The industry generates income through salary‚ wages‚ loan and interest. The amount spent by tourists though their currency in the accommodation‚ food and beverage and other tourism services and products‚once they visited in our country‚ becomes our tourist
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Issues in the Malaysia Tourism Industry Malaysia tourism obtained the fast development as a result of it own superiorities in natural and cultural travel resources as well as government’s vigorously support. It has become the country’s second biggest source of foreign exchange and the third largest economy sector. But under this excellent prospect‚ we instead should have a more sober understanding to the tourism’s vulnerability and the issues in the Malaysia travel industry to continue developing
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The Tourism industry is an important industry in Hong Kong. Inbound and outbound tourism is the major income of Hong Kong. According to the result from the Tourism Commission‚ in 2011‚ Hong Kong received a record-high of 42 million visitors from around the world‚ a remarkable increase of 16.4% over 2010. It is also the first time that the number of arrivals surpassed the 40 million mark. The appreciation of most major currencies against Hong Kong dollar and the improving travel sentiment have fueled
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The global recession has led to layoffs. Layoffs will be effecting the foreigners working in different countries. The first to be fired will be the foreigners working in a country because every country would not want to keep their citizens jobless and employ a foreigner. the property and the construction business has fallen very low nearly 80%. There are no new projects coming up and some of the existing projects are being cancelled. Microsoft was asked to fire the foreign employees
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Environmental Implications of the Tourism Industry Terry Davies Sarah Cahill Discussion Paper 00-14 March 2000 Resources for the Future 1616 P Street‚ NW Washington‚ DC 20036 Telephone 202-328-5000 Fax 202-939-3460 Internet: http://www.rff.org © 2000 Resources for the Future. All rights reserved. No portion of this paper may be reproduced without permission of the authors. Discussion papers are research materials circulated by their authors for purposes of information and discussion. They
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THAILAND TOURISM INDUSTRY (1487 words) Teacher: Nguyen Tien Dung Student: Trinh Lan Huong Class: 1D-11 Course: EAP Writing Date: May 8‚ 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract……………………………………………………………………………… ii 1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………………..1 2. Discussion of findings …………………………………………………………...1 2.1. The developmental process of tourism industry in Thailand ……….1 2.2. The reasons for the development of tourism in Thailand ………….....2 3.
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