...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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...UNIT 36: SPORT AND LEISURE TOURISM IN THE UK Get assignment help for this unit at assignmenthelpuk@yahoo.com LO1 Understand the structure of the sport- and leisure-related tourism sector in the UK Concept of tourism: models and approaches; definitions of tourism and tourists; tourism motivators and barriers; classification of tourism types; tourism sectors including products and services Historical developments: introduction of paid holidays; role of transport; mass tourism; ecotourism; technological developments in sport and leisure-related tourism Role of public sector: government legislation; tourism authorities; national and regional tourist boards; local government; amenity agencies; public sector initiatives; comparative government structures Role of private and voluntary sectors: private sector organisations eg tourist attractions and accommodation providers; voluntary sector organisations eg hostel; partnerships, national and international professional organisations Tourism law: effects of EU and international legislation; tourist movement law eg passports; passenger carriage law; consumer protection law eg Package Holidays Act; planning regulations; laws relating to tourist attractions and sports stadia https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5649485182751853952#editor/src=sidebar LO2 Understand the trends and demands for sport and leisure tourism Sources of tourism data and statistics: international sources; National Training Organisations; regional tourist...
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...Current Issues of Business and Law ISSN 1822-9530 print / ISSN 2029-574X online 2012, 7(2), 351–364 doi:10.5200/1822-9530.2012.22 VERSLO AKTUALIJOS / CURRENT ISSUES OF BUSINESS Experience of growth and continuity in SMEs: A study on the growth aspects of the tourism industry in the Netherlands Taeke Tuinstra1, Johan Mekkes2, Hiske Koldijk3 1 Doctor of Social Sciences Member of Research Chair Entrepreneurship & Risk Finance NHL University of Applied Sciences P.O. Box 1080, 8900 CB Leeuwarden, The Netherlands E-mail: t.tuinstra@nhl.nl; tel.: +3158 2511 637 2 Doctor of Social Sciences Head of Research Chair Entrepreneurship & Risk Finance NHL University of Applied Sciences P.O. Box 1080, 8900 CB Leeuwarden, The Netherlands E-mail: j.mekkes@nhl.nl; tel.: +3158 2511 495 3 Bachelore of Science Researcher at the Institute for Business and Management Studies NHL University of Applied Sciences P.O. Box 1080, 8900 CB Leeuwarden, The Netherlands E-mail: h.p.koldijk@nhl.nl; tel.: +3158 2511 670 Received 29 October 2012; accepted 4 December 2012 Abstract A vast amount of studies stress the importance of growing enterprises for ensuring employment and economic growth in a country. Moreover, there is a wide variety of studies that identify the characteristics of high-growth firms as compared to those of low-growth firms. There exist also the studies that focus on the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. The results of such studies provide input for governmental...
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...Medical Tourism Americans have been travelling to India for doctor procedures for many years now. The practice of traveling outside the country to receive medical care is called medical tourism (Steklof, 2011). Every year the number of Americans traveling overseas has increased tremendously (Steklof, 2011). Due to high rising healthcare costs, and the stress to be able to receive medical care in a timely manner in the United States, are reasons why tourist are traveling abroad (Meghani, 2011). Americans who are uninsured or are not able to afford some of the medical procedures will most likely practice medical tourism. The cost of medical treatments in India are still significantly lower than the cost of medical treatments in the United States. For example, the cost of a knee arthroplasty is approximately $40,000 in the United States. Conversely, the procedure in India would only cost approximately $13,500 including a companion coach and hotel expenses (Meghani, 2011). The high cost of healthcare in the United States is imputable to the high cost of labor; (Varman & Ram, 2007) percent of inpatient hospital costs are labor-related costs (Cortez, 2008). American physicians have a higher compensation rate, a higher cost of living, and must obtain malpractice insurance due to a high risk of eventually fighting a lawsuit (Steklof, 2011). This can explain the 28 to 88 percentage cost savings on medical procedures when preformed in India versus in the...
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...material as possible. Documents published in English that met criteria for a social science contribution were included for review. Via electronic bibliographic databases, websites and hand searches conducted in India, 113 relevant articles, books and reports were identified. These were classified according to topic area, publication date, disciplinary perspective, genre, and theoretical and methodological approaches. Topic areas were identified initially through an inductive approach, then rationalised into seven broad themes. Transnational consumption of health services; the transnational healthcare workforce; the production, consumption and trade in specific health-related commodities, and transnational diffusion of ideas and knowledge have all received attention from social scientists in work related to India. Other themes with smaller volumes of work include new global health governance issues and structures; transnational delivery of health services and the transnational movement of capital. Thirteen disciplines were found represented in our review, with social policy being a clear leader, followed by economics...
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...REPUBLIC ACT No. 9593 Tourism Act of 2009 and otherwise known as Its Implementing Rules and Regulations DOT Manual Guides.indd_edited.indd 1 1/26/2010 1:33:03 PM DOT Manual Guides.indd_edited.indd 2 1/26/2010 1:34:00 PM REPUBLIC ACT No. 9593 AN ACT DECLARING A NATIONAL POLICY FOR TOURISM AS AN ENGINE OF INVESTMENT, EMPLOYMENT, GROWTH AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND STRENGTHENING THE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM AND ITS ATTACHED AGENCIES TO EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY IMPLEMENT THAT POLICY, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as “The Tourism Act of 2009.” SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. – The State declares tourism as an indispensable element of the national economy and an industry of national interest and importance, which must be harnessed as an engine of socio-economic growth and cultural affirmation to generate investment, foreign exchange and employment, and to continue to mold an enhanced sense of national pride for all Filipinos. Towards this end, the State shall seek to: (a) Ensure the development of Philippine tourism that is for and by the Filipino people, conserve and promote their heritage, national identity and sense of unity; (b) Recognize sustainable tourism development as integral to the national socio- economic development efforts to improve the quality of life of the...
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...Source: Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 52, No. 1 (February 2009), pp. 71-90 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/589702 . Accessed: 12/03/2011 22:11 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at . http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucpress. . Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. The University of Chicago Press and The University of Chicago are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Law and Economics. http://www...
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...While tourism is a concept almost everyone around the world is familiar with, ecotourism is a relatively newfangled concept that not too much people have heard of and this is more realistic in the context of our country Bangladesh. Even we, when first assigned with this particular topic as our research project, did not have clear idea what ecotourism exactly was all about. Later, we studied in detail regarding the concept and got to what ecotourism actually is. Two topics that have attracted growing interest in anthropology in the past decade or two are tourism and the environment. Regarding tourism, increasingly people see vacations as a necessary corrective for what they perceive as a more and more stressful working life. Increasingly also, people see the environment as under threat from the profit‐seeking growth that drives corporations. Ecotourism can be broadly defined as an idea of leisure travel that has the object of enjoying features of what is seen as the natural environment in a way that has minimal negative consequences for the environment. Ecotourism is generally taken to include a sociocultural element, the intention of seeing and interacting with people (often identified as “indigenous”) whose customs and appearance seem exotic and attractive and doing so in a way that respects and benefits them. Bangladesh has lots of marvelous tourism spots but most of them are still unexplored by the relevant authority. Having all the minimum requirements, the tourism industry...
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...2 7 2.3.0 Limitations of the study 7 2.4 Discussion and findings 8 2.4.1Main areas for trekking in Nepal 8 2.4.2 Benefits received from trekking and who gets the benefits 8 2.4.3 Costs of Trekking in rural areas of Nepal 9 2.4.4 Factors that are directly and indirectly affecting trekking in Nepal. 11 2.4.5 Internal and external Political situation 11 2.4.6 Safety of the trekkers: 12 2.4.7 Global recession 14 2.4.8Government polices and infrastructure 15 2.4.9 Other reasons 16 2.5 Effect of these factors 17 2.6 Plan and polices of NTB 17 3.1 Conclusion: 19 3.2Recommendations 20 3.2.1 Construction of the constitution 20 3.2.2 Safety and security 20 3.2.3 Ban on closure and strikes in tourism industry 20 3.2.4 Air accessibility 20 3.3.5 Infrastructure and development 21 Reference list 22 Chapter 1 1.1Problem statement There are lots of factor that have affected the Tourism industry in Nepal ranging from civil war within the country, to global economy downturn or different Flus in the world,. These factors and many others affect the number of people travelling to the Nepal especially for group of people for holiday, pleasure for trekking and mountaineering (Himalayan, 2012). There is a huge time frame(1990-2012) we can see that tourism in Nepal is not developing as it should have like increasing in the number of the travellers though the trekking industry have the big potential of large business (Tourism Board of Nepal, 2013). If only...
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...services.5 o Gold and precious metals, as well as sanctions on associated services. • Suspend U.S. sanctions on Iran's auto industry, as well as sanctions on associated services. • License the supply and installation in Iran of spare parts for safety of flight for Iranian civil aviation and associated services. License safety related inspections and repairs in Iran as well as associated services. • Establish a financial channel to facilitate humanitarian trade for Iran's domestic needs using Iranian oil revenues held abroad. Humanitarian trade would be defined as transactions involving food and agricultural products, medicine, medical devices, and medical expenses incurred abroad. This channel would involve specified foreign banks and non-designated Iranian banks to be defined when establishing the channel. o This channel could also enable: transactions required to pay Iran's UN obligations; and, direct tuition payments to universities and colleges for Iranian students studying abroad, up to an agreed amount for the six month period. Agreements. • Comprehensively lift UN Security Council, multilateral and national nuclear-related sanctions, including steps on access in areas of trade, technology, finance, and energy, on a schedule to be agreed upon. • Include international civil nuclear cooperation, including among others, on acquiring modern light...
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...Hospitality Management Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute Of Science and Technology In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Subject TRM 112 Leading to the Degree Of Bachelor of Science in Tourism by: BONGCO, SHAINA JOY M. TARUC, CATHLYN F. LACAP, KIM LYN G. NIÑO, REINA JEAN B. 2015 Statement of the Problem Specifically, it seeks to answer the following problems: 1. What are the attributes for revisiting the City of Manila as tourist attraction? 2. Is there significant difference in the assessment of the tourism authority and the residents as to the attributes for revisiting the City of Manila? 3. What are the issues and concerns attributed to the City of Manila as tourist attraction? 4. What promotional plan may be formulated to sustain the City of Manila as tourist attraction? CHAPTER 1 The Problem and Its Background Introduction The Manila is teeming with history, and some Filipinos live with our past even as we move toward the future. Manila is blessed with historical places which determines our culture, religion, bravery and determination. One of the places that is teeming with the history of Manila is Intramuros. Conceptual Framework This research was framed on the initial aspects to consider in the enlightenment of the study. Input consist of the researcher’s personal observation and read materials such as books, magazines including respondent reflected on the answered survey questionnaire. Process includes the analysis...
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...1. IT and Internet’s Impact on Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Implementations of technologies for Hilton Hotels Group. Demonstrate critical and evaluative interpretation and application of theoretical IT/ e-business concepts to a current tourism and hospitality market situation in order to build sustainable competitive advantage. I Introduction Accompanying the technological revolution of the 1990s there are many new opportunities and challenges for the tourism and hospitality industries. Since tourism, global industry information is its life-blood and technology has become fundamental to the ability of the industry to operate effectively and competitively. Poon (1993) suggests that the whole system of information technologies is being rapidly diffused throughout the tourism industry and no player will escape information technologies impacts. The report below gives an insight into the importance of application of information technologies and the use of Internet in tourism and hospitality industries. Two given strategic frameworks provide the analysis of the Internet and its impact on these sectors. This paper also aims to show how technological innovations and information systems can be beneficial for the hotel companies, by using the example of Hilton Hotels Group. II IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY SECTORS Market wisdom today suggests that hospitality companies must embrace technology to compete against traditional competitors, as well as...
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...brought to you by www.bdresearch.org Eco-Tourism: An Investigation into the Conceptual Framework and Policy Requirements for its Growth in Bangladesh Golam Moinuddin* Halima Begum** Abstract Sustainability considerations have been making ways in each and every development initiative in the last two-decades or so. In line of this trend, the concept of eco-tourism emerged and later on, turned out to be an environment friendly and economically beneficial industry taking over a considerable bulk of mass-tourism activity and offsetting some of its negativities. Such a transformation has ultimately positioned eco-tourism to be the substitute of mass-tourism in many tourist destinations. In view of such reality, this article attempts to investigate on the conceptual dynamics and benefits of eco-tourism and explores reflective state of these theoretical underpinnings on the basis of two case studies drawn from successful eco-tourist destinations. In light of such investigative out-puts, the article focuses on the prospects of eco-tourism industry and makes an effort to provide a broad policy framework for the development of the same in Bangladesh. It identifies areas of intervention required in promoting the eco-tourism industry in the country. Finally, it attempts to define and differentiate the respective roles of the private and public sectors in the flourishment and sustainable growth of the sector in the country. Introduction Tourism industry contributes considerably to the...
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...The Impacts of Tourism Establishing or developing a tourism industry has both benefits and costs. If these impacts are understood from the outset of planning, strengths and opportunities can be maximized while weaknesses and threats can be minimized. A list of potential costs and benefits are presented below. Each destination will be different in terms of tourism characteristics. The costs and benefits of tourism will vary in each destination and can change over time, depending on tourism and other activities in a destination’s local and regional context. Tables 4-1 present some of the positive and negative impacts of tourism. In 1999 more than 657 millions of people travel out of them frontiers in tourism travels. Based in the data of the Mundial organisation of tourism (MOT) the incomes were 449 billions of us dollars. The tourism employs more than 255 millions of workers in the whole world. (One of each nine workers). For the year 2010 the MOT hopes that will reach one zousand million of internationals tourists, and incomes of 1550 billions of us dollars. In 1999 France was the most visited destiny (70 million tourists), followed by Spain (51 million) and the United States country that registry the highest income by international tourism. The tourism is a very fragile business and events as the attacks of 11-S can damage the turistic season practically stopping the trips, or in the beach tourism especially in the Mediterranean, the climate conditions, condition the number...
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...UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT “Tourism Development Plan: National Library of the Philippines” – Nation’s Literature’s Shelter Beautification A Thesis Proposal Presented to the Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (ITHM) Far Eastern University (FEU) – Manila In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for Tourism Planning and Development (TPAD) __________ By Baladad, Arlou Belle P. Celestial, Danisse Ann P. Fabros, Jeric Neil V. Huang, Ya-Hui E. Opinaldo, Cathleen Karla L. Platino, Shane Marienette M. “Tourism Development Plan: National Library of the Philippines” – Nation’s Literature’s Shelter Beautification 1 FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT October 2014 Vision and Mission The modernity of National Library of the Philippines tends to adapt to rapid global technological advances and catch up with other modernized libraries elsewhere, and its American style of architecture which upholds the sophistication makes visitors feel like passing through the history since it was established in American colonial period. National Library of the Philippines aims to provide a comfortable learning ambiance for visitors, upgrade most of the facilities to look more authentic, and enhance the creativity of facility design that can seem somehow distinct from other libraries while upholding the historical spirit within its structural design at the same time. “Tourism Development Plan: National...
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