Air Pollution - The Causes & Effect . Defi-Air pollution‚ both indoors and outdoors‚ poses health risks to millions of Americans every day‚ contributing to asthma‚ emphysema‚ heart disease‚ and other potentially lethal conditions. Managing air pollution causes‚ and defending successful safeguards like the Clean Air Act‚ is critical to the human‚ economic‚ and environmental health of our communities. America’s power plants are our biggest industrial polluters. Each year they pump more
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ADOPTION OF ICT IN THE TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY Abstract Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have revolutionised the travel industry in the last decade. eTourism reflects the digitalisation of all processes and value chains in the tourism‚ travel‚ hospitality and catering industries. It emerges as a term describing the entire range of applications of ICTs on tourism and the implications for the tourism value chain. Major opportunities and challenges have emerged and need to be
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Tourism While tourism can be a powerful positive force for change in poor countries‚ it can also be seriously damaging for the local environment and culture. An increase in mass tourism that is not controlled responsibly can ruin areas of natural beauty. Tourism can damage coral reefs‚ pollute beaches and destroy the habitats of wildlife as roads and hotels are built. Ironically‚ damage to these natural resources is likely to reduce future numbers of visitors. Another negative effect is that
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There is a huge exportation of tourism and fish in Seychelles. This 2 component components are the actual major factors that are effecting the economy of the country. During the time that the Somalian pirates entered to entered to the Seychelles water zone‚ this had a big negative impact on both fishing anf tourism industries. In this case‚ government has to guarantee the security of citizens with respect to the help from other international organizations as well. Regarding to the statement that
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The Impacts of Natural Disasters on the Tourism Industry THM 1311 Intro. to Tourism & Hospitality Management Samantha Salamon THM 1311 Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality Management The Impacts of Natural Disasters and on the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Table of Contents Introduction Why Study the Impacts of Natural Disasters on the Tourism Industry? Taiwan Earthquake of 1991 Japan Earthquake of 2011 Market Rebuilding/Hurricane Katrina Works Cited page 1 page 2 pages 3-4
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Introduction Air is the ocean we breathe. Air supplies us with oxygen which is essential for our bodies to live. Air is 99.9% nitrogen‚ oxygen‚ water vapor and inert gases. Human activities can release substances into the air‚ some of which can cause problems for humans‚ plants‚ and animals. There are several main types of pollution and well-known effects of pollution which are commonly discussed. These include smog‚ acid rain‚ the greenhouse effect‚ and "holes" in the ozone layer. Each of these
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The term ‘Do It Yourself’ in tourism refers to consumers booking individual aspects of their holiday directly with the producer‚ instead of using an external agent‚ such as Thomas Cook. In recent years‚ there has been a rise in the United Kingdom in the number of ‘DIY’ holidays from 57% in 2005 to 62.3% in 2009 (Keynote‚ 2010) due to several significant driving factors influencing consumers’ behaviour. Examples of these external drivers are changes in technology‚ the Internet revolution for example
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Transportation March 2‚ 2013 Department of Transportation The Department of Transportation (DOT) was established on October 15‚ 1966. Its first secretary‚ Alan S. Boyd‚ took office on January 16‚ 1967. But the department ’s first official day of operation was April 1‚ 1967. The mission of the Department of Transportation is to provide an efficient and economical national transportation system. In other words‚ to maintain and provide a safe‚ efficient‚ environmentally‚ aesthetically and culturally
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Air Transport Industry in Hong Kong Overview As one of the regional hubs for Asia‚ Hong Kong is connected with most urban centres in Asia and half of the world’s population within 5 hours of flight time. Currently‚ more than 100 airlines operate about 1‚000 flights daily‚ linking the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) to about 180 destinations worldwide including 48 cities on the Chinese mainland. Handling 56.5 million passengers and 4.03 million tonnes of cargo and in 2012‚ HKIA was Asia’s
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Fall 2008 “Importance of Tourism industry in Destinations around the world.” An introduction to tourism: The subject of tourism: In historical terms‚ tourism activity is a relatively new development and only recently has it been considered worthy of serious business Endeavour or academic study. However‚ the tourism industry is of sufficient economies importance and its impact upon economies‚ environments and societies is significant enough for the subject of tourism to deserve academic consideration
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