Year, the Department of Tourism has been actively marketing the country as a safe tropical holiday destination (DOTa, 2002). The aggressive sales missions and advertising campaigns, along with the various activities in 2002 commemorating the International Year of Ecotourism, aim to increase visitor arrivals, and consequently bring in more foreign currency to the country. How much is actually at stake? In 2000 alone, the total annual revenue directly attributed from tourism amounted to about US$ 2
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economic impacts of festivals are vast and limitless; this essay will establish some of the effects that a festival has, both positive and negative. The biggest of the sectors within the festival industry is the government sector; corporations within this sector primarily create events for social, cultural, economic and tourism causes. The government sector mainly creates mega events; these are defined by Getz (2005) as ‘must see’ events that yield extraordinarily high levels of tourism, media coverage
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The Tourism Industry in Iraq Development. It was prepared by the joint venture partnership of The Louis Berger Group / The Services Group under Contract # 267-C-00-04-00435-00 The Tourism Industry in Iraq IZDIHAR— USAID Contract #267-C-00-04-00435-00 International Economic Consulting April 17, 2006 The Tourism Industry in Iraq DISCLAIMER The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development
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Chapter 10 SOCIO-CULTURAL EVALUATION 1. Importance of Socio-Cultural Evaluation The socio-cultural resources of Central Luzon are potential resource-assets for tourism development. These resource-assets has great tourism application that can generate community-based livelihood and employment opportunities. The sociocultural resources include the traditional communities, archaeological and historical sites, festivals, indigenous arts and crafts, cuisine, myths and
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The Holderness coastline is the fastest eroding coastline in Europe. There are many socio-economic and physical consequences of erosion on the Holderness coast. Mr Cross bought a property in Barmston, a seaside village on the Holderness coastline. He brought a property 11 years ago and at the time it was around 40/50 yards from cliff edge and now this has changed to about 20 yards. This is due to the undercutting of the cliff from the waves causing the cliff to collapse; this is a physical consequence
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the economic development situation, the potential tourism development opportunities, accessibility problem in VISA restrictions and the risk analysis of the destinations will be taken into consideration. Attracting elements in choosing Singapore: After conducting the site selection analysis, it is found that Singapore could be one of the potential destinations to be developed for a new casino. General speaking, the high revenue generated by tourism, the high proportion of people in the highest socio-economic
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sector, the production capacity may amplify which has significant impact for the promotion of economic and social development in the Caribbean. In the Caribbean, although there has been a long history of entrepreneurship spirit, the SME development was slow and limited to the few sectors that were available. It was only in the early eighties where some diversification took place with the start of the tourism development. Since then, Tourism has become the main economic activity of many countries and
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13, 2014 Ecotourism and its Effect on the World Ecotourism is becoming a big reason why economies in certain countries rise. There is an abundance of beautiful and natural scenery that westerners are willing to go out to see. Both Robert Fletcher (Author of Romancing the Wild) and Martha Honey (Author of Ecotourism and Sustainable Development) give a definition about what ecotourism is and the impact it has on the places where it occurs. They also talk about which classes and groups are involved
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the income spectrum were found to be mainly allocentrics, those with the lower income levels were psychocentrics, expected to be seeking for the respective type of destinations. However, such a relationship may not be that categorical i.e., severe economy constraints may falsify the classification in terms of psychographics. In other words, it may be erroneous as well as illogical to infer that an individual belonging to the budgetary class is always likely to be psychocentric. Again, Plog agrees
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Tourism is a constantly growing industry that generates billions of dollars per year contributing to more than 9% of New Zealand’s GDP. In 1939, the amount of international travellers worldwide was one million and today there are over one billon each year. (Higham, 2013). This industry has seen major developments, improvements, and growth in just a single generation with the increase in advancements of technology and the introduction of affordable flights. Tourism is a complex system that is constantly
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