INTRODUCTION Tourism industry is one of the most profitable industries in many countries (Sinha, 2004). Whenever tourists visit a country, they bring in additional resources to the destination and such resources contribute to the development of the destinations and the country itself. It is therefore no surprise that many countries make tremendous efforts to tap income from the tourism industry (Australian Government, 2004). Among these countries are India and China. In the recent years, there
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Community and Recreation: Community Recreation Community The Merriam- Webster (2012) defines community as a unified body of individuals with common interests living in a particular area. A community is also a local grouping within which people carry out a full round of life activities. Although families or other groups can sometimes be relatively self-sufficient, most of them do not live in isolation. For many reasons, ranging from economic interdependence to shared cultural values, families
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ICRA LIMITED Page 1 of 25 ICRA expects the Indian Hotels industry to finish 2011-12 on a weaker note with subdued pricing power eroding margins. Although some revival in operational metrics was witnessed during late 2010-11, the industry continued to lack the pricing power to drive out of its current stagnancy. Globally weak macroeconomic scenario, the European sovereign debt crisis, geo-political turmoil in the Arab countries, high interest rates, inflation and a muted domestic corporate
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sectors that include the primary sector, secondary sector, and tertiary sector. All of these specific sectors have significant value on the economy with each sector bringing in profits. Although during the past decades the growth of industry and tourism has decreased agriculture's dominance, but farming activity still accounts for the major part of the country's economy. The country is still able to export tea, coffee, flowers and vegetables. Both, tea and coffee exports have brought a large share
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6. Government Support (Non-Monetory) 21 4.7. Offers from Airline Industry 24 5. Emerging Trends in the sector 25 5.1. Premium Hotel’s profitability to hit lows 25 5.2. Increasing revenues from F&B Segment 26 5.3. Development of niche tourism offerings 26 5.4. Growing trend towards service apartments 27 5.5. Growing demand for budget segment 27 5.6. Increasing interest of international operators 28 5.7. Growing trend towards spa and gymnasium facilities 28 6. Factors influencing
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INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE TOURISM SECTOR IN KENYA INTRODUCTION Tourism in Kenya dates back to pre-independence days and history has recorded that as early as the 1930's, overseas visitors and explorers had started coming to Kenya mainly for big-game hunting expeditions while others came in search of solitude and adventure. These expeditions were locally referred to as "Safari" thus lending the travel world literature with a new vocabulary. Among the early visitors were statesmen, royalties and
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Medical tourism is becoming a popular option for tourists across the globe. It includes primarily and predominantly healthcare facilities, combined with travel and tourism. The term medical tourism describes the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain cost-effective and high quality medical care. Various countries like Thailand, Malaysia, India, etc are promoting medical tourism aggressively. The key competitive advantages of India in medical tourism stem from
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Tourism Management 31 (2010) 1–12 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Tourism Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tourman Progress in Tourism Management A review of innovation research in tourism Anne-Mette Hjalager University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrsvej 9-10, DK-6700 Esbjerg, Denmark a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 27 January 2009 Accepted 31 August 2009 Keywords: Innovation Innovation systems Knowledge Clusters Policy a b s t
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world of possibilities. Its warm and friendly people make tourists feel welcome along with its state of the art infrastructure. With Singapore being a stop over point on long haul flights to Asia or Australia from Europe or the Americas, the tourism within Singapore has been increasing as the flights have been increasing. Many airlines now offer special package deals on stop over holidays in Singapore. In 1964 Singapore’s Tourist Promotion Board was established with the mandate to promote
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Historical Background: Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd. is one of the top five travel and tour groups in Europe. Its head office is in Zurich, Switzerland. Its core business activities are Leisure Travel, Business Travel and Incoming. Switzerland is its chief market. (Reference for Business 2011) The company employs more than 7500 staff in 300 different sites all over the world. (Kuoni 2011) Alfred Kuoni first founded Kuoni in the year 1906 along with his brothers who had a successful freight-forwarding
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