...ABTRACT Tourism is all about travel; and the role of transportation in its operation is vital. Travel can be discussed without taking tourism into consideration, but tourism cannot thrive without travel. Transportation is an integral part of the tourism industry. It is largely due to the improvement of transportation that tourism has expanded, though this expansion is good due to increase revenue that would be captures as a result of passenger traffic will have an impact negative side. In some area to name a few; the ecology; degradation of destination sites, tourist experience, and in some cases the economy of these destinations. In the light of such issues, it is important to discuss how these developments affect the traveller and the destination INTRODUCTION Tourism has emerged as one of the most dynamic sectors of any country’s economy. Not only does it make significant contribution to the foreign exchange earnings, employment, income generation and regional development but it also helps in the overall development of that country directly or indirectly through different sectors. Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity, in 2011, there were over 983 million international tourist arrivals worldwide, representing a growth of 4.6% when compared to 940 million in 2010 (Press release). UNWTO. 7 May 2012, Retrieved 15 June 2012. International tourism receipts the travel item of the balance of payments grew to US$1.03 trillion (€740 billion) in 2011, corresponding...
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...Critical Evaluation of Customer Satisfaction of Transportation Services in Hong Kong Learning Outcomes Assessed Learning Outcomes Assessed Feedback relating learning outcomes and assessment criteria given to students: Areas for Commendation Areas for Improvement General Comment Assessors Signature Overall Mark : Subject to ratification by the assessment board Moderators Signature Students Signature: You must sign this declaring that it is all your own work and all sources of information have been referenced: TLH307 International Tourism & Hospitality Management - Urban Tourism TLH307 International Tourism & Hospitality Management Urban Tourism Critical Evaluation of Customer Satisfaction of Transportation Services in Hong Kong Muhammad Norfarid Bin Farali Khan Student ID: 089101850 BSc (Hons) International Tourism and Hospitality Management The University of Sunderland Date of Submission: 18-Jul-2011 2 Muhammad Norfarid Bin Farali Khan BTTD1 0907A Bachelor Of Science(Hons) In International Tourism and Hospitality Management TLH307 International Tourism & Hospitality Management - Urban Tourism Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 4 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW .............................................................................................................. 6 2.1 Transportation and Tourism .....................................
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...investigation of tourists' destination loyalty and preferences Joseph S. Chen Assistant Professor, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA Dogan Gursoy PhD Candidate, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA Keywords Tourism, Holidays, Korea Abstract Investigates the relationship between tourists' destination loyalty and their preferences as to destination. Destination loyalty is operationally defined as the level of tourists' perceptions of a destination as a recommendable place. On-site surveys of Korean outbound travellers were conducted at the Seoul International Airport, South Korea, in March 1997. Of 285 questionnaires collected from Korean outbound travellers, 265 useful questionnaires are analyzed. Multiple regression analysis reveals that three destination preferences, including different culture experiences, safety, and convenient transportation, have a positive relationship with tourist's loyalty to the destination. Results from a path analysis show that past trip experience affects tourists' destination preference. The implications and limitations of the study are discussed in the conclusion. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 13/2 [2001] 79±85 # MCB University Press [ISSN 0959-6119] Introduction Tourist choice behavior...
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...Presentation on tours and travel Introduction * Majority of time, transportation essentially means air ticketing. This falls under aviation industry which is a part of transportation. The basis service required by traveler, whether business or leisure- transportation (air, rail tickets), hotel booking & car rentals. * Primary service providers in the travel and tourism industry are airline, railway, bus, cruise liner, hotels. * Secondary services that are needed by the traveler are passport, visa foreign exchange telephone calling cards etc. therefore if traveler has go arrangement for / her traveler plans * Overview of tour and travel Travel agencies * In 1841, Thomas cook was the first agent to buy tickets in bulk and sell them to the public. * In 1845 Thomas cook set up a full time excursion agency to organize excursions including railway booking, transport, hotel accommodation, sightseeing, guide services and meals. * They provide services like railway authorities, airlines, hotels; travel formalities such as passport, visa, foreign currency, traveler cheque and other transport gave him commission on sales made by it. * This way travel agency came through Role of travel and tour towards economic * People in general now view travel & tour as a way of life rather than a luxury item reserved for the affluent and the elite. * The tourism industry has emerged as one of the fastest growing industries, contributing to 10%...
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...• Analyse the features and strengths of different destinations (access, attractions, accommodation, activities, amenities and ancillary) In Zimbabwe there are 3 ways of transportation which are road, rail and air transport. In air transport there scheduled flights and the low cost carries like the Fastjet. There are 13 airports in Zimbabwe including 3 international airports. Roads also helps in linking different destinations. There are road ports in most cities and the one in Harare is the largest. Taxis and coaches also takes tourists to different places around Zimbabwe. There is also railway transport; high speed and luxurious trains are there to help in the transportation of people and tourism goods and also railway stations are available around Zimbabwe with planned schedules. In Zimbabwe there are natural attractions like Chinhoyi Caves, also man-made attractions like the Lake Kariba and cultural attractions like the Great Zimbabwe Ruins. Zimbabwe has the iconic attraction which is the Victoria Falls. Some attractions are designed for tourism purposes for example galleries, museums. Other attractions are designed for events like for arts (HIFA, music concert), business (carnival, sanganai expo) and some are designed for culture like cultural villages. Accommodation in Zimbabwe...
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...popular tourist centers in Satara district of Maharashtra. This paper attempts to study the development of tourism in Mahabaleshwar. The entire analysis is based upon the intensive fieldwork carried out in the study area, which is supplemented by secondary data. The questionnaire and interview techniques have been employed to collect the information about the number of tourist visited, their expenditure , duration of stay, growth of tourism, seasonal pattern of tourists arrival, motives of tourists, transportation, satisfaction etc. Analysis reveals that tourists’ expenditure is low in Mahabaleshwar; majority of them prefer to return in one day. The number of the tourists has been increasing every year with some expectations. Tourists also like to visit Mahabaleshwar in the rainy season. The common reason the visit is that they attract towards the beauty of nature. INTRODUCTION: Tourism is a temporary movement of people at place outside the place of work or residence or beat area. Tourists always visit a particular place in search of pleasure. Sometime this motive is supplemented by other motives like business, education religion, medical, friends and relatives etc. Tourism is one of the fastest growing industry which assembled number of services together like accommodation, transportation, food facility, guide, sight seeing and other. There are number of advantages of tourism e.g. it creates large number of employment opportunities in hotel industry ,transportation, restaurants...
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...1.1 Exclusive Gist: Bangladesh as a vacation land has many facets. Her tourist attractions include archeological sites, historic mosques and monuments, resorts, beaches, picnic spots, forest and wildlife. Bangladesh offers opportunities for angling, water-skiing, river cruising, hiking, rowing, surfing, yachting and sea bathing as well as brining one in close touch with Mother Nature. In Bangladesh, kuakata is one of the largest and popular sea beaches. Kuakata is one of the two beaches (other one is in Japan) from where we can see the blood red Sunrise and Sun set. This beach is 18 km long and 3 km wide. People came here to see the sandy beach slopes into the Bay of Bengal, also the huge expanse of water, the ever green forest in surrounding areas, rows of coconut trees, boats of different kinds and their colorful sails, and surfing waves. Kuakata is also a sanitary for migratory winter birds. Many people visiting Kuakata find interest in Buddhist temples located at nearby places such as Keranipara, Mistiripara, and Kolapara. While many others find the place interesting because of the unique customers and traditions of the Rakhain community. 1.2 Objectives of the Study: As a student of Tourism and Hospitality Management, we should have to gather more experience beside our study. The major objectives of this term paper are to highlight the real picture and description of the different tourist spots in Kuakata and to identity the present situation. A clear objective...
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...Site Selection: The location of a casino is an important decision, because this raises strategic, regional and local considerations (Hannigan, 2007). A framework of site selection criteria, therefore, should work out to determine the casino location. Selection Criteria: The locational determinants are documented as followings to determined our casino development location: (Rephann, 1997) 1. Proximity to larger urban areas 2. Quality of transportation infrastructure: 3. Restrictiveness of state casino gaming regulations 4. Proximity to non-casino-gaming states 5. Scale of casino development 6. Presence of other recreational attractions 7. Qualified Personnel inputs In addition, other aspect of the potential destinations such as the reputation of the destination, the economic development situation, the potential tourism development opportunities, accessibility problem in VISA restrictions and the risk analysis of the destinations will be taken into consideration. Attracting elements in choosing Singapore: After conducting the site selection analysis, it is found that Singapore could be one of the potential destinations to be developed for a new casino. General speaking, the high revenue generated by tourism, the high proportion of people in the highest socio-economic categories, the presence of Singapore’s iconic attractions, the high concentration of hotels and so on making Singapore being a higher potential for the new casino development...
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...j [pic] Term Paper Title: Organizational Behaviors of Sustainable Tourism A Partial fulfillment for Bilingual MBA Programme 2013 Subject: Organizational Behavior (Code: BP6903) Lecturer: Dr. Yu Wang Presented by: Yinsi Tu (ID: 5539073 ) Shilong Chen (ID: 5569005) Xingjun Liu (ID: 5561065) Jialing Xing (ID: 55569009) Yunmei Wang (ID: 5569006） Content 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Organizational Culture of Sustainable Tourism 3.0 Government's Policies in Sustainable Tourism Management 4.0 Characteristics and Diversities in Sustainable Tourism 5.0 Tourist Behaviors in Sustainable Tourism 6.0 The Relationship between Sustainable Tourism and Environment Protection 7.0 Conclusion 8.0 Bibliography 1.0 Introduction Today, as the world economy，science and technology and cultural developing aggressively , the increase of personal income and free time, Labor and Leisure has become two important aspects of an integral human social life. Today, leisure sports and tourism is the world's most widely used recreational activities. Leisure sports, people enjoy the beauty and movement created by a pleasant activity in order to express themselves to the outside world. Homer and Swatchbrooke (1996) defined tourism as tourism refers to people temporarily leave permanent residence elsewhere in recreational activities. ...
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...Beaches are overly crowded Due to large number of tourists visiting Boracay for its famous white sand beaches, it is now overly crowded. And this can result in decreased revenues for vendors and the city that owns the beach. Overcrowded beaches cost of more to maintain and repair, and they diminish the beach experience for locals and tourists in the long-term. While beaches become crowded during the tourist season, they are normally open all year long and depend on the patronage of locals to keep them going. When too many people gather in an area which cannot be handled by the facility, the destination, the local residents and the economy are harmed. The key is to balance the number of visitors with the capacity of the given environment in a manner that allows the greatest interaction and enjoyment with the least destruction. To avoid this situation, effective planning steps must be taken in accordance with effective policy guidelines. Building regulations have been violated, especially by the large hotels Since Boracay is one of the most visited beaches here in the Philippines, business minded people takes opportunity to establish hotels to gain profit without knowing that they are already violating building regulations. For example, the Boracay West Cove Resort, which violated the 30-meter easement from the shoreline. The proclamation mandates that structures along the shoreline should not be built closer than 30m from shore on high tide. As a solution with this problem...
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...Tourism is a leisure activity which involves a discretional use of time and money and recreation is often the main purpose for participation in tourism (Ghosh, 2001). Tourism is emerged from the movement of people to and their stay in various destinations. There are two basic elements in tourism, such as the journey to the destination and the stay. In short, tourism means the business of providing information, transportation, accommodation and other services to travelers (Ghosh, 2001). Tourism may be broadly divided into domestic tourism and international tourism. In domestic tourism, people move within their own country whereas in international tourism, the barriers exist in travelling destinations beyond national boundaries ((Zulfikar, 1998). In tourism, tourist acts as the key player in this system. The term tourist is defined as who goes on holiday to visit places away from his home. Foreign tourist is a person who visits a place and stays at least 24 hours on a foreign passport for the purposes of leisure, business, meeting and so on. On the other hand, domestic tourist is a person who travels within the country to a place other than his place of residence and stays at hotel or rented place and uses the sightseeing facilities for duration of not less than 24 hours or one night and not more than 6 months...
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...is a capital city of Thailand and very famous city for tourists all around the world. More than ten million tourists from many places around the world spend a lot of their time and money in Bangkok each year. However, there are many negative articles from tourists who used to visit Bangkok. They were complained about the security in their life, pollution in Bangkok, and protest. As a Thai citizen, I agree with them because I am the one who faced with those problems before. There are three main parts that I think it is correct to say that Bangkok is a dangerous zone, which are security in their life, pollution, and protest. When we want to travel somewhere, we always look at the previous information from Internet or another source as a guide. We need to be sure about many things before we are going to be there. In addition, a security in traveling or stay there is one of the most important to be decided whether to go or not. As many tourists were mentioned about this, so I would like to amplify in more details about this kind of thing also. In Bangkok, we will face with a low quality of transportation services. Once the tourists reach to airport, they do not have enough information to go to their destination in a blink of an eye. They will face with a fake taxi that will charge them with an unreasonable price or rob and rape them if possible.—this situation is real. Moreover, in Bangkok has many type of transportation that will give them a cause of accident, such as Tuk-Tuk...
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...Why do foreign tourists avoid returning to Vietnam? Many foreign tourists, especially Japanese tourists, love to make pleasure trips to Vietnam. They are not only touched by hospitable Vietnamese people, but also the taste of Vietnamese cuisine and are impressed by spectacular handicrafts. However, despite their passion for Vietnam, they only return on short business trips. Here are several from Japanese tourists which can help us to figure out why they don’t make return pleasure trips and solve this situation. According to these tourists, there are three main problems discouraging them from making a second trip to Vietnam. First, due to the complicated traffic in big Vietnamese cities, travelling in taxis is their only safe transportation choice. Nevertheless, they are harassed (disturbed) quite often by taxi drivers who always try to make as much money as possible. Second, in many of the country’s tourist destinations, no bathrooms can be found (and the few that exist are dirty). Last but not least, there isn’t tissue available, even for women, in the bathrooms of well-known commercial centers situated in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City. Recently, this old bathroom problem has been mentioned in the newspapers and we should expect to see considerable improvements sooner or later. As for dealing with harassment from taxi drivers, the Japanese tourists suggested selling all-inclusive(all-in) price tickets for public transportation, as in Japan. This would mean that taxis based...
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...* The word TOURISM refers tour which is derived from the Latin word "TORNUS" . It means a tool for describing a circle of turner's wheel (Bhatia, 2002). It is very important pleasure activity where tourists travel from one to another countries and one region to another region as well.And Tourism also involves money for getting services and time.So, it basically result for temporary visit or move from their place to other places.Therefore facilities provided to visitors to satisfy their wants and needs come in tourism activity. Tourism is increasing expanding activity in national or international level.So nowdays it has become serious concerns for any national. Nepal is a very small and natural beautiful country where almost 82 percent people are engaged in agriculture even though the agriculture sectors contribute only 55 percent on the gross domestic product and 50% of the total export. It is always put in the major or first priority in every periodic plan. And there is always huge budget amount for agriculture. But the productivity is going always downwards because of structure problem raising in Nepal. For example Topographical conditions, lack of irrigation facility, lack of modern technical use and lack of commercialization. Like agriculture, manufacturing sector is also not very good in Nepal it has provided only 10 percent employment and it has only 20 percent contribution on gross domestic product. There has a lots of investment and efforts to developed industrial...
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...tourism policy? ..............................................................2 2.2 Reasons of the establishment of sustainable tourism policy……………….2 3. Stakeholders……………………………………………………………………...3 3.1 Federal, provincial and territorial tourism organizations………………...3 3.1.1 Non-market behaviors deployed by tourism organizations…………4 3.1.2 Market behaviors deployed by tourism organizations………………6 3.2 National Parks and Provincial Parks……………………………………….7 3.2.1 Non-market behaviors deployed by National and Provincial Parks..7 3.2.2 Market behaviors deployed by National and Provincial Parks……..8 3.3 Transportation sector (Air, Rail way, Automobile, Cruise, etc.)…………..9 3.3.1 Non-market behaviors deployed by the transportation sector…….10 3.3.2 Market behaviors deployed by the transportation sector………….11 3.4 Accommodation, food and beverage sectors………………………………12 3.4.1 Non-market behaviors deployed by accommodation, food and beverage sectors……………………………………………………..12 3.4.2 Market behaviors deployed by accommodation, food and beverage sectors………………………………………………………………...14 3.5 Travel agencies……………………………………………………………....14 3.5.1 Non-market behaviors deployed by travel agencies………………..15 3.5.2 Market behaviors deployed by travel agencies……………………..15 4. Economic analysis of behaviors……………………………………………….16 5. Evaluation of Sustainable Tourism Policy……………………………………17 5.1 Economic influence…………………………………………………………17 ...
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