Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 345±370, 2000 Pergamon 5 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0160-7383/00/$20.00 PII: S0160-7383(99)00073-0 CARIBBEAN CRUISE TOURISM Globalization at Sea Robert E. Wood Rutgers University-Camden, USA Abstract: Caribbean cruise tourism provides a particularly illuminating vantage point for understanding the processes of globalization in the world today. After documenting the rapid expansion of this business, the
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UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST TRAVEL SOCIETY ACCOMPLISHMENT REPORT School Year 2012-2013 Acquaintance Party: “Power of Boundless Believing Teens” July 2, 2012 1:00-5:00PM (Multi-Purpose Hall 1) All BS Tourism Management students were invited. Attendees were mostly freshmen students. The program included introduction to the organization and the officers, background of projects, and lots of games and activities with prizes. The photo booth helped in gathering the audience. At the end of the event
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STRATEGIC PLANNING Critically Assess the Theory and Practice of Strategic Planning in Tourism. Area of focus: Egypt Presented to the University of Sunderland Degree: International Tourism and Hospitality Management Student registration number: TABLE OF CONTENT Cover page......................................................................................Page 1 Table of Content......................................................................
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assistance they received. - Market Definition Both the world travel market and the relocation market are forecast to expand the percentage annually. One of the markets it has been increased since 2-3 years ago, and this one is the Tourism market, now there are more tourists from Russia, which means a faster economic growth rate of the country. Therefore, what we are planning to do is operate directly with the Russian market to get closer and facilitate the entrance of the country all
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1. Introduction The Night Safari was introduced to Singapore in 1994 by the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS). First of its kind, the night safari is home to over 1050 animals of 120 nocturnal species. Night Safari focuses on areas such as service quality, experiential dining and Wildlife Conservation. Its world class service quality, award winning Gourmet Safari Express, and constant efforts in promoting biodiversity in the conservation sector has effectively brought in visitors from all over the
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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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information gathered. The study of Villoso (2007) which is “Casino Filipino: It’s impact to the Tourism Industry as perceived by the resident of Tagaytay City” aimed to determine the acceptability of Casino Filipino and its impacts to tourism industry as perceived by the residents of Tagaytay City. They find out the cultural, economic, and social impacts of Casino Filipino to the tourism industry as perceived by the residents of Tagaytay City. They used the descriptive form of method research
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some lessons on the specifics of managing soft projects. THE CONTEXT AND THE PROJECT The government agency where the project took place is concerned with tourism; its mandate is similar to other governmental tourism bodies throughout the world, that is, marketing and promotion, assistance to private sector industries related to tourism (grants, technical support, standards, etc.). The organization is structured into three divisions: marketing, product development and research, and policy
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Numbers of criteria should be considered when a theme park is established. In this report, weather, land, transport and attractive of a city should be concentrated on. Weather is the most common condition when building an industry. As Clave (2007) explained, this kind of factor which is not controlled should be considered when a park operates as a result of consumer behavior. Most of customers prefer to go outside when the weather is comfortable. So weather is the element which increases or decreases
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www.elsevier.com/locate/atoures Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 93–111, 2005 Ó 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Printed in Great Britain 0160-7383/$30.00 doi:10.1016/j.annals.2004.05.001 MARKET SEGMENTATION A Neural Network Application Jonathan Z. Bloom University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Abstract: The objective of the research is to consider a self-organizing neural network for segmenting the international tourist market to Cape Town, South Africa. A backpropagation
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