visiting Bangalore or for citizens desiring a break from the routine tedium of everyday life. Sankey Tank offers it all, be it sightseeing, or a picnic or a pleasant boat ride in the balmy afternoon lull. An undertaking of the Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation, the Mayura Sankey Boat Club is equipped with abundant rowboats, pedal boats and motorboats. Tourists can discover the lake by rowing across its perimeter. The Club is also endowed with a luxurious swimming pool nestled in
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National tourism organization India Table of contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Vision 3 3. Mission 3 4. Discussion 3 4.1. External factors affecting Indian Tourism industry 3 4.2. Students and teachers of hospitality and tourism institutes 4 4.3. Other Central Ministries/ Departments 5 5. Control, interdependence and inseparability 5 6. Challenges 6 7. Implementation Plan 9 8. Potential strategies 9 9. Recommendation 9 References 11 1. Introduction
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Situational Analysis Introduction- InterCity InterCity has been transporting Kiwis and international visitors around New Zealand (NZ) for more than 30 years. In 2009, InterCity carried over 1.3million passengers throughout their extensive NZ network (Rode, 2010). Their current business model (B2C) has been developed over time to compete with airlines and other inter-city bus companies such as Nakedbus. The company’s long run success has lead managers to keep InterCity’s business model relatively
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Are High Hotel Tariffs Damaging India’s Tourism Potential? Industry analysts fear that the current boom which the Indian hospitality industry is witnessing will not last. The prime reasons cited are steep hotel rates and shortage of rooms. Leading tour operators, in conversation with Bhisham Mansukhani and Charmaine Fernz share their opinion on this current scenario... The Indian hospitality’s current occupancy boom, which revived the industry from its days in shambles, is now posing a serious
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Festivals and events are seen as a tool for raising awareness and as a catalyst in promoting a favourable destination image to potential tourists (Lertputtarak, 2012). The image of a destination can be enhanced by the success of an event (Baloglu & McCleary, 1999). In the words of “Lawson & Baud Bovy (1977), the concept of destination image is defined as the expression of all objective knowledge, prejudices, imagination and emotional thoughts of an individual or group about a particular location”
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INTRODUCTION The purpose of this essay is to discuss the characteristics of the tourism industry that can provide challenges for the implementation of sustainable tourism. This essay will include a description of the concept of sustainable tourism, the goal of sustainable tourism, characteristics of sustainable tourism ,the challenges of sustainable tourism and a conclusion. The entire world, including the tourism industry, is facing the economic problem of man’s unlimited needs appose to society’s
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United Arab Emirates and Economics Institution United Arab Emirates and Economics Introduction The United Arab Emirates is a capitalist country which gives the private investors an opportunity to manage, and maintain commercial and industrial sectors in order to ensure growth and development. The economy has one of the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita worldwide. Thus, this allows many people from different parts of the world entering
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of lecture/term III. COURSE RATIONALE Cruising has been considered a global phenomenon; statistic shows the growing popularity of the cruise industry. This course aims to study the essential feature of cruises and how it contributes to the Tourism Industry. IV. COURSE OBJECTIVES By the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. Analyze the past, present and future of the cruise industry; 2. Analyze the services of the cruise industry from a traveler’s perspective. Identify
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the study. 1.1Background to the study Tourism is the one of the fastest growing industries in the world and this is due to the fact that the world has a wealth of natural, cultural and man-made attractions which are untapped from the standpoint of tourism development. There is a significant contribution of promoting domestic tourism to the development of any nation; the Manila Declaration of 1980 stated that: “within each country, domestic tourism contributes to an improved balance of the national
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International Tourism and Transport Assignment One: BX660020 Scotland By: To: Word count: 2,459 Date: 23/03/2012 1.0 Introduction The purpose of this report is to examine and discuss land, air and sea transport modes with reference to examples of each type of transportation. The importance of these transport modes will be analysed with reference to regional, national and international networks including supply and demand. The importance of these
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