Company in the Tourism Industry The Tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The World Travel and Tourism Council estimates that in 2004 Travel and tourism is expected to generate * US$ 5,490.4 billion of economic activity * 10.4% of total GDP * 214,697,000 jobs or 8.1% of total employment * 12.2% of total exports [1] My task is to conduct a PEST analysis for a company within the Tourism industry. Within the tourism industry, I have
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Economic Impact of Mega Sporting Events on Host countries Nitika Mangal Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Chapter 1: Introduction 4 Chapter 2: Aim and Objectives 5 Chapter 3: Literature Review 6 Chapter 4: Analysis 1 - Economic Impact of Atlanta 1996 Olympics 9 Positive Impact 9 Negative Impact 10 Chapter 5: Analysis 2 - Economic Impact of Sydney 2000 Olympics 12 Positive Impact 12 Negative Impact 14 Chapter 6: Analysis 3 - Economic Impact of Sochi
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Tourism Geography Tourism Geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity. Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests including the environmental impact of tourism, the geographies of tourism and leisure economies, answering tourism industry and management concerns and the sociology of tourism and locations of tourism. Tourism geography is that branch of science which deals with the study of travel and its impact on places.
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Economic impact approaches Page #1 Approaches to Estimating the Economic Impacts of Tourism; Some Examples Daniel J. Stynes Updated January 1999 Introduction The purpose of this bulletin is to present examples of different approaches to estimating the economic impacts of tourism. In a previous bulletin (Stynes 1997), I summarize economic impact concepts and methods as they apply to tourism. Here we apply the methods to illustrative cases in order to demonstrate some practical approaches
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Sustainable tourism is an industry committed to making a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate future employment for local people. The aim of sustainable tourism is to ensure that development brings a positive experience for the local people, tourism companies and the tourists themselves. But sustainable tourism is not the same as ecotourism. Department of Economic and Social Affairs Commission on Sustainable Development Seventh Session 19-30 April 1999, New
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ISTAT (Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Alimentare). Tourism can be an important resource for an economy and Italy is the fourth highest tourist earn and fifth most visited country in the world, behind France (76.0 million), Spain (55.6 million), United States (49.4 million), and China (46.8) with more than 43.7 million tourists a year. People mainly come to Italy for its rich art, cuisine, history, fashion and culture. Tourism is one of Italy's fastest growing and most profitable industrial
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Brief Background of Thailand’s Political Unrest The 2013-2014 Thai political crisis was a period of political instability in Thailand. Anti-government protests first took place to remove former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra who locals viewed as highly corrupted and damaging to Thailand’s democracy. From November 2013 to May 2014, demonstrators obstructed the traffic and destroyed infrastructures to call for the resignation of Yingluck Shinawatra and her government. On 8 December 2013, all
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Geography unit 4 Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism Leisure: Freedom from time-consuming duties, responsibilities, or activities. Tourism: Temporary movement of people to destinations outside places where they normally live and work. Local Recreation: Surfing, hiking, exploring but it all involves your own local area Non-local Recreation: Going somewhere else to find activities e.g. surfing Business and recreational travel: Travel for pleasure e.g. city guides, coach
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UNIT 1 The travel and tourism industry Introduction T he travel and tourism industry is one of the biggest and fastest growing industries in the UK. This unit will give you an introduction to the industry, providing a sound basis for further study. You will find out about the nature of the industry, its size and scale, and you will be introduced to the types of organisations that form its structure. In addition you will investigate the development of the industry and the factors
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resort, also to explain different fields including geography locations, operational aspect and business entity. According to Nunkoo and Ramkinsoon (2010), the implementation of integrated resorts has been regarded as an option to operate sustain the economy and cash flows .While investigating these aspects of integrated destinations, it is also very important to consider the standard features and benefits. The information used will depend consisting of online website and individual knowledge. The intention
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