PR No.: PR13033 Madrid 15 May 13 Receipts from international tourism in destinations around the world grew by 4% in 2012 reaching US$ 1075 billion. This growth is equal to the 4% increase in international tourist arrivals which reached 1035 million in 2012. An additional US$ 219 billion was recorded in receipts from international passenger transport, bringing total exports generated by international tourism in 2012 to US$ 1.3 trillion. Among the emerging economy destinations highest receipts
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The Future eTourism intermediaries Dimitrios Buhalis1, Maria Cristina Licata2 1 Course Leader MSc in eTourism, School of Management Studies for The Service Sector, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK d.buhalis@surrey.ac.uk Genesys Information Limited Clarendon House, 125 Shenley Road,Borehamwood, Herts WD6 1AG, UK cristina.licata@genesysinformation.com ____________________________________________________________________ 2 Acknowledgement: The authors would like to acknowledge Paul
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Anjuna 18 hotels | * Canacona 15 hotels | * Cavelossim 7 hotels | * Arpora 8 hotels | * Benaulim 5 hotels | * Varca 6 hotels | * Bogmalo 3 hotels | * Vagator 9 hotels | * Mandrem 8 hotels | | Goa tourism | Goa's beaches cover about 125 kilometres (78 mi) of its coastline. These beaches are divided into North and South Goa. North Goa is more commercial and touristy with an abundance of mostly low and medium budget tourist accommodations; whereas
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ONLINE TOURISM AND TRAVEL- ANALYSING TRENDS FROM MARKETING PERSPECTIVE Dr. Manoj Dixit Reader Department of Public Administration University of Lucknow Email: manojdixit23@gmail.com Dr. Rakesh Belwal Assistant Professor Department of Management Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Email: rakesh_belwal@yahoo.com Dr. Gurmeet Singh Senior Lecturer Department of Management & Public Administration University of South Pacific Fiji islands Email: drgurmeetsingh@yahoo.com 1 ONLINE
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Various Tourism Options in Costa Rica There are a multitude of reasons for a tourist to travel to Costa Rica; reasons that vary from a simple vacation, to adventure tourism, ‘sex tourism’, eco-tourism, or medical tourism. Costa Rica is a relatively new tourist selection. “In the 1960’s Costa Rica warily became aware that tourism could be an important source of income.” (Tourism in Costa Rica, 2012) Since that realization, Costa Rica has become a well-traveled area. They also remain a peaceful country
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Executive Summary The Gold Coast is indisputably Australia's most popular holiday destination and offers many different types of beachfront accommodation, award-winning dining, shopping and thrilling attractions. This marketing report aimed to devise a marketing strategy for this location. It began by scanning the macro environment and found that the location is politically stable, although currently the entire world is being severely affected by the economic recession. This has therefore
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under aviation industry which is a part of transportation. The basis service required by traveler, whether business or leisure- transportation (air, rail tickets), hotel booking & car rentals. * Primary service providers in the travel and tourism industry are airline, railway, bus, cruise liner, hotels. * Secondary services that are needed by the traveler are passport, visa foreign exchange telephone calling cards etc. therefore if traveler has go arrangement for / her traveler plans
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Shaping the future of travel in India The big FOUR travel effects January 2013 Shaping the future of travel in Asia Pacific 2 Contents Foreword The potential of the Indian traveller Low penetration of travel The Me Effect: Changing types of travellers The growth of the business traveller The female business traveller The VFR traveller The young traveller The Red Tape Effect: the breaking down of barriers to travel Barriers still impeding Indian travellers The Leapfrog Effect: technology
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Seven of the hurdles that need to be examined, in a management sense, are: 1. Cost overruns How much will they actually be and who will pay for them? Past experience says there will be cost overruns; moreover, many of those extra costs are often hidden from the public by being shifted to other budgets. Infrastructure costs are but one example of this. It is important that a tight rein on costs be initiated from the outset and that oversight be put in place. Scrutiny of estimates and the awarding
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LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? ------------------------------------------------- Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic ------------------------------------------------- By: Denise Brennan In, What’s Love Got to do with It? Denise Brennan writes about her study of Sosúa, Dominican Republic as a transnational sex tourism site. “What started out as a project on sex tourism expanded into a study on globalization and the changes, opportunities, and inequalities it has engendered
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