ourism Introduction Overview of Middle East Tourism Industry Specifically in the Middle East 5, overall growth in number of tourists for 2012 is estimated to be -1%, which is up from a decline of 7% in 2011 due to the political turmoil and instability in the region (“International Tourism”). The Middle East as a whole earned $46BN from tourism receipts in 2011 (“UNWTO Tourism”). For the United Arab Emirates (UAE), tourism directly contributed to around 6.5% of GDP in 2011, with total contributions
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cleanliness, sanctuary, transportation, condition of energy and water, and etc., to be supplied by the city and or state that they reside in. Any region where one resides in requires a sustained infrastructure which necessitates the technical arrangements helping with the provision of services. “The infrastructure of a city, for example, includes not only components such as streets and power, telephone, water, and sewage lines, but also schools, retail stores, and law enforcement.” Similarly, indispensable
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High-performance business Create value with technology Avoiding the austerity trap By Bob Suh In today's uncertain business climate, IT investment is often in the budgetary crosshairs. But in fact, now is the ideal time to upgrade existing infrastructure and invest in next-stage technologies that create value. Management decision making can be fairly straightforward when the economy is clearly headed in one direction or the other. When it is growing, business leaders invest to meet demand. When
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local, and not-for-profit entities. This would allow for cost/loss in an entity’s capital assets and infrastructure. This can be distributed over the useful years of life instead of the initial year. In using the cash method, the value of physical assets and the depreciation on infrastructures such as roads, bridges, sewers, and drainage systems is not shown on the books. On average, most infrastructures decline in usefulness or value over a period of 20 to 50 years. This new standard thus creates GASB
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MBA (2010-2012), NMIMS, Mumbai aditi.kaikini@gmail.com 9833265671 The Infrastructure Sector is of strategic importance to any Country… Because it drives Economic Growth!!! A robust infrastructure not only facilitates expansion of industry & trade, but also directly leads to job creation and a better standard of living. This in turns attracts further investment and growth. However, infrastructure projects are characterized by unique risk profiles that add to the complexity in planning
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The potential of Islamic infrastructure finance in Africa Summary: Lack of funding for infrastructure has been identified as one of the key hurdles hindering African infrastructure development. Africa ranks on the bottom of developing regions in access to infrastructure services and the continent’s total infrastructure financing needs amounts to a staggering circa. USD 93 billion per year until 2020 (Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic, 2009). Five years have since lapsed since these estimates
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Software Remote Manageability Mapping future goals Dynamic client infrastructure framework, supported by 3rd Generation Intel®Core™vPro™processors, boosts Computacenter’s consulting services CHALLENGES • Keeping pace. Meet customers’ changing needs – for example, offering advice on managing trends for hotdesking, home and mobile working, and the integration of consumer computing devices into the corporate IT infrastructure • Credible advice. Computacenter needed to be able to understand virtualized
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over 160 years. Founded in 1849, AMP has played a substantial role in shaping modern Australia and New Zealand by helping millions of customers build financial security, providing protection for families and assets, and financing property and infrastructure projects. By delivering the right balance of security and performance, AMP helps its customers and clients own their tomorrows through: * financial planning and advice * superannuation, retirement income and other investment products
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2013 and is expected to be more than $107 billion in 2017 with an annual growth rate of 23.5 percent, five times that of the industry (IDC, 2013). Cloud Computing is a resourceful model that allows enterprises to accelerate innovation, decrease infrastructure costs, improve resource utilization, and greater ability to manage information technology security (PwC, 2010). The “Cloud” refers to the Internet, a collection of interconnected networks that communicate with each other, and it can be accessed
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Background on Mobile Cloud Services 4.1 General “Cloud computing, including distributed virtual services, is an evolving paradigm that is fundamentally and rapidly changing communication services and infrastructure. The diversity of these services and the underlying infrastructure has itself produced different perspectives. In general, most of the many forums dealing with cloud computing have found common ground in the following description (Special Publication 800-145, The NIST Definition
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