PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT OR INNOVATION: WHAT IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN TOURISM? by Klaus Weiermair Professor and Head of the Center for Tourism and Service Economics University of Innsbruck Abstract This paper is built like a three–layered club house sandwich with the first layer providing some theoretical and conceptual insights regarding expected innovation behaviour in tourism based on available material in tourism and industrial economics. The second layer will provide empirical insights and/or testing
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Do the Benefits of Dark Tourism Outweigh the Morbidity Maameegate Zheng Jun Cheston Tay Kai Ren ENG114 – Section 1006 University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas / Singapore Campus Do the Benefits of Dark Tourism Outweigh the Morbidity Introduction Dark tourism encourages people to reflect on mortality‚ bringing them closer to death (Stone‚ 2010). It is a multitude of history‚ heritage‚ tourism and tragedy which plays an important role in delivering information by bringing the past to present (Niemelä
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After more than a decade of spectacular growth‚ Tourism has played an important role in the development of Cambodia. It has brought employment‚ improvements in infrastructure‚ training and general education and living standards for many people‚ and raised the international profile of Cambodia. Its growth has helped diversify economic activity‚ and broaden the base of foreign earnings. Tourism statistics of Cambodia In recent years‚ the question of how to increase the yield from each tourist;
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Evolution of travel and tourism at PULAU LANGKAWI. The purpose we choose LANGKAWI as a tourism place for our group assignment because it’s smaller islands‚ has a legendary reputation‚ with many places where myth and natural beauty seem to coincide. Many of its legends are all the more real‚ simply because its people are convinced of their authenticity. Langkawi certainly has its own share of geological uniqueness‚ as the very landscape from which these legends are derived. Langkawi
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Tourism in India Tourism is the largest service industry in India‚ with a contribution of 6.23% to the national GDP and 8.78% of the total employment in India. India witnesses more than 5 million annual foreign tourist arrivals and 562 million domestic tourism visits.[2][3] The tourism industry in India generated about US$100 billion in 2008 and that is expected to increase to US$275.5 billion by 2018 at a 9.4% annual growth rate.[4] In the year 2009‚ 5.11 million foreign tourists visited India.
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Abstract Nature-based tourism is an important part of the global tourism industry‚ and its components and features vary considerably from one destination to another. In Malaysia‚ location‚ quality and quantity of natural resources‚ and their infrastructure have not been well documented in the past. Thus‚ this paper attempts to assess local community-based management for potential ecotourism in South Kelantan which is Gunung Reng‚ Jeli as case study. The study investigated the local community involvement
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1. Introduction The World Tourism Organisation affiliated to United Nations and recognised as the leading international body on global tourism states that tourism is “ the activities of person travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes” (WTO 2011). Travel and tourism is a very important economic activity around the world and it is the largest service industry in the world (WTTC 2011).
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Tourism in Thailand’s National Parks: The Problems it Brings "Rainforests are currently being destroyed at a rate of over 200‚000 square kilometers a year according to the US National Academy of Sciences" (Wheeler). Some of these rainforests are located in Thailand’s national parks. In Thailand‚ there are 15 national parks set aside for conservation‚ though only 80% of these parks remain intact today. These Parks represent approximately 13% of Thailand’s land. The purpose of these parks is
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Chapter 1 Objective: Tourism is a highly dynamic industry. Yet in spite of this‚ very little is understood and appreciated on how tourism can actually contribute to the social growth of any tourist destination. This chapter would provide the basic concepts of tourism. Tourism as defined by WTO (World Tourism Organization)‚ is the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other
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Introduction Tourism‚ in particular mass tourism‚ is frequently described as a phenomenon of modern society (Sharpley‚ 1994). It is modern society‚ through the development of fast‚ efficient and economical forms of mass transport‚ increasingly high levels of disposable income and the provision of socially-sanctioned free time that has provided the means and the opportunity for people to participate in tourism. Additionally‚ modern society is a major factor in tourist motivation. Whether to
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