Will banning marijuana in Amsterdam affect the tourism industry? Amsterdam is known to be the liberal city of the world and the capital of the Netherlands. The 1970’s saw the Dutch government change drug policy and categorise marijuana as a ‘soft drug‚’ as a result coffee shops were born. Coffee shops allowed locals and tourists to smoke small amounts of cannabis with a wide range of variety and strengths. Coffee shops have since become part of Dutch culture and Amsterdam’s identity. Fast forward
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Capture the point of the study unit briefly in your own words. Begin the paper with a short summary of the study unit‚ about its objectives and contents and your personal goals when attending the study unit. What makes it interesting and relevant to tourism business and for my future expertise? Identify and present at least 1-3 new things you have learned during the study unit. Weigh their value for your work possibilities and your future studies (e.g. your Thesis). Identify and present 1-3 expertise
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Hospitality Law Hospitality law has evolved as a specialty within the legal profession in the last several decades. It is also offered as a course on the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in some law schools. A typical hospitality law course covers the history of hospitality law‚ the impact of federal and state civil rights laws on the hospitality industry‚ and an extensive discussion of contract law‚ including discussions of remedies for overbooking and a guest’s breach of the contract
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MALAYSIA THE IMPACT OF TRAVEL &TOURISM ON JOBSANDTHE ECONOMY CHAIRMAN: Sir Ian Prosser Chairman Six Continents PLC VICE CHAIRMEN: Donald Carty Chairman‚ President & CEO American Airlines Jean-Marc Espalioux Chairman of Management Board & CEO Accor S.A. André Jordan Chairman Lusotur S.A. Jonathan S. Linen Vice Chairman American Express Company Vincent A.Wolfington Chairman Carey International‚ Inc. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Peter Armstrong President & CEO Rocky Mountaineer
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Assessing Workplace Violence Risk Factors in the Hospitality Industry In “What’s Growing in the Corporate Culture”‚ Mattman (2001) discussed the steps a company needs to take in order to set up an effective workplace violence prevention program. This process involves classifying various risk factors‚ reviewing the existing policies in place‚ and establishing a way to collect pertinent‚ unbiased data. In this paper‚ I will summarize Mattman’s key points and gear the discussion more directly towards
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Tourism is defined as people traveling and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not interrelated to the exercise of an activity rewarded from within the place visited. Tourism is mainly popular as a global freedom activity. Tourism can bring many economic and social benefits. Countries can promote their self internationally by making their environment pleasant for tourist to appreciate. Promotion of tourism
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Tourism Management 31 (2010) 1–12 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Tourism Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tourman Progress in Tourism Management A review of innovation research in tourism Anne-Mette Hjalager University of Southern Denmark‚ Niels Bohrsvej 9-10‚ DK-6700 Esbjerg‚ Denmark article info abstract Article history: Received 27 January 2009 Accepted 31 August 2009 Over the past two decades‚ there has been increasing focus on the topic
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Case Study: Vertical Integration and the Effect on the Travel and Tourism Industry When two similar companies such as two hotels‚ are offering very similar products and are in a strong competing situation‚ integration is a popular move. It can be a voluntary decision by both companies or it can be the take-over of one company by another. Benefits include greater sales‚ which result in larger revenue and expansion opportunities. Complimentary reasons tend to be the realisation that one hotel offers
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN KENYAN BANKING INDUSTRY Dr. Josiah Aduda‚ jaduda@uonbi.ac.ke‚ Lecturer and chairman‚ department of Finance and Accounting‚ School of Business‚ University of Nairobi‚ Kenya and Leonard Musyoka‚ University of Nairobi Abstract Economic theory of executive pay has focused on the design of optimal compensation schemes to align the interests of hired managers and shareholders. Agency theory has identified several
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What is Tourism? Tourism includes several social practices. All these have the small common characteristic that they are different and they are a ’departure ’ from normal life. These characteristics help us to define tourism‚ which according to the W.T.O (World Trade Organization) is the movement of people away from their normal routine of residence and work for a period of not less than 24 hours and not more than 1 year. Tourism is a free time activity because it gets along with its opposite
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