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    Travel and Tourism

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    Unit 1- Task 3 Interrelationships in Travel and Tourism Individual businesses must work in partnership with other organisations in order to be successful. Tourism is a very competitive and complex sector and many companies develop links with other businesses as a way of maximising profits. If for example Thomas cook didn’t work with other hotels‚ insurance companies‚ company picks up on arrival‚ Thomas cook wouldn’t make any profits‚ as customers wouldn’t want to book a holiday with a company who

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    TIME TRAVEL

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    From millennium-skipping Victorians to phone booth-hopping teenagers‚ the termtime travel often summons our most fantastic visions of what it means to move through the fourth dimension. But of course you don’t need a time machine or a fancy wormhole to jaunt through the years. As you’ve probably noticed‚ we’re all constantly engaged in the act of time travel. At its most basic level‚ time is the rate of change in the universe -- and like it or not‚ we are constantly undergoing change. We age

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    need for the better treatment of a country’s citizens. This period of skepticism deserves the name of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement where leaders of single groups shared the same aspirations for change. During this period‚ people had

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    Gulliver's Travels

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    Gulliver’s Travels is a satire of England’s government in the early 1700s. Gulliver’s Travels was written by Jonathan Swift. During the late 1600s to early 1700s Swift took part in politics. Swift was not treated well by most politicians. Noticing all of the corruption and abuse of power around him‚ Swift decided to write a book based on the corruption of England’s government. The abuse of power becomes a recurring theme throughout Gulliver’s Travels. Part I of Gulliver’s Travels reveals the

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    Candide is an outlandishly humorous‚ far-fetched tale by Voltaire satirizing the optimism espoused by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. It is the story of a young man’s adventures throughout the world‚ where he witnesses much evil and disaster. Throughout his travels‚ he adheres to the teachings of his tutor‚ Pangloss‚ believing that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Candide is Voltaire’s answer to what he saw as an absurd belief proposed by the Optimists - an

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    Travel changes

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    TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THE INCREASED AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL HAD AN IMPACT ON MODERN SOCIETY? In the last thirty years different societies have experienced a considerable number of changes in customs‚ beliefs and communication methods‚ citizens from Asia‚ America and Europe were more attracted to international travel and destroyed the frontiers paradigm creating an interlinked world. Currently‚ some international institutions such as the European Union‚ the Organisation

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    Time Travel

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    Time Travel Mark Jacob de Paz Course: Comm 2 Instructor: Mrs. Noemi Agner Date: March 14‚ 2011 2 Time Travel Thesis Statement Time travel is possible. Outline: Time travel A. Definition of time travel B. Origins of the concept Theories about time travel A. Time travel forwards 1. Time dilation 2. Time perception B. Time travel backwards 1. Using wormholes 2. Special spacetime geometries Philosophical understandings A. Grandfather paradox B. Novikov self-consistency

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    Main Idea of The Enlightenment The Enlightenment which was during the seventeenth and eighteenth century was a time that helped shape the capitalistic‚ democratic world we live in today. The Enlightenment was also called the Age of Reason because that period was a time of high intellect and bright new ideas. Philosophers would meet to discuss economic‚ political‚ social‚ and religious questions. These questions made the philosophers hope that they might some new ways to understand and improve

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    Reasons for Travel

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    holidays travelling. Rich or poor‚ old or young‚ they strive to leave the place where they live or work‚ and move to another spot of our planet — at least for two to four weeks a year. They travel to cities and towns‚ mountains and lakes‚ across oceans and seas. There are several reasons why the popularity of travel and tourism is growing. The first one is educational value of travelling. Man has always moved from one place to another in search of knowledge. Even now‚ in the age of technology and global

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    travel agency

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    Executive Summary Leisure Lane Tours is a sole propritorship business and a specialized travel agency that provides tour packages depend on the needs and request of the client. It will be located at V.A. Rufino St.‚ corner Herrera St.‚ Makati City. The office will operate every Mondays to Saturdays from 8:00am until 6:00pm‚ and conduct tours from Mondays to Sundays‚ 24 hours. The philippines has the largest volume in tourist in Southeast Asia. Tourism industry is recognized by the government as

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