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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” Leading involves the social and informal sources of influence that you use to inspire action taken by others. If managers are effective leaders‚ their subordinates will be enthusiastic about exerting effort to attain organizational objectives. The behavioral sciences have made many contributions to understanding this function of management. Personality research and studies of job attitudes provide important information as to how managers can most effectively lead subordinates. Leading as a
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Impacts From Tourism Change or loss of indigenous identity and values Tourism can cause change or loss of local identity and values‚ brought about by several closely related influences: Commodification Tourism can turn local cultures into commodities when religious rituals‚ traditional ethnic rites and festivals are reduced and sanitized to conform to tourist expectations‚ resulting in what has been called "reconstructed ethnicity." Once a destination is sold as a tourism product‚ and
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Executive Summary The tourism industry has undergone rapid growth of unsurpassed nature over the last several decades. This has mainly been due to the advent of a ’borderless’ world and increased information dissemination about the majestic sceneries throughout the world‚ with the southern Bengal region being no exception. We are on the brink of penetrating a lucrative market in a rapidly growing industry. The current trend towards an increase in the number of tourists entering the country presents
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The tour operation sectors Tour operators are businesses that merge 2 or more travel services together e.g. accommodation‚ transport‚ tour guide‚ catering and sell them through travel agencies or directly to the consumers as a single product that is called package tour. The package tour might be the combination of services that the consumer wants to get her hand on. Customers chose tour operators rather than organising a holiday independently because it offers a hassle free‚ secure and most of
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(Opens with a dark creepy room and the only light is from flickering candles‚ this is all taking place during a thunder storm in London England) Tour Guide- Welcome to an exhilarating tale of Me‚ Myself‚ and a few other unsuspecting victims: ug (cough) I mean tourists! Yes‚ yes tourists that’s what I meant! (lightning strikes) Ahh here they come now!!!! (Set changes and goes to the tourists running in the Bloody Tower of London England) Tourist 1- OMG!! Could it get any more like wet out
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I. Introduction We‚ first year HRM student where very lucky to have our very first seminar and tour in the summer capital of the Philippines – Baguio City. At first were all excited because our seminar is all about hotel familiarization‚ that means were going to a hotel and tour inside it. Isn’t it exciting? For me‚ who dreamed to work in a hotel‚ is really a big YES! II. The Departure We headed to Baguio last August 26 and arrived there the 27th of August‚ exactly 2:00 in
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Abstract 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
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Good day tourists! I’m .......your tour guide for today and now where going to explore and see the beauty of the ......City of the ..........City! Ok let start our tour with a prayer. (pray) now I would like to introduce our couch captain. Couch.................. he is an experienced driver for 5 years and he will make sure that we will have a safe and happy trip. So are you all excited guys? Yes! And now lets have a headcount first starting with you.. 1 2.. Ok were all 30 thank you for your cooperation
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European Tour Operators: Introduction: The macro-environment looks at broad trends shaping the national and international environment. An analysis of the macro environment is crucial in determining the factors which have a direct impact and/or might influence the strategic direction of an organisation. The macro-environment is difficult for organisations to influence and changes can be far-reaching. The media is usually rich source of both information and speculation and as such cannot be a reliable
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