devoted themselves to the tourism industry for 5 years. The company has designed tours for both the older tourists and young student tourists. The primary goal is to provide excellent service to our/your client. The company ensures that the client will have the experience of lifetime. The environment in which it operates can be summarized as following: • Tourism year 2011 in Nepal. • Increasing popularity of concepts like ecotourism, community tourism, sustainable tourism, corporate social responsibility
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of lecture/term III. COURSE RATIONALE Cruising has been considered a global phenomenon; statistic shows the growing popularity of the cruise industry. This course aims to study the essential feature of cruises and how it contributes to the Tourism Industry. IV. COURSE OBJECTIVES By the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. Analyze the past, present and future of the cruise industry; 2. Analyze the services of the cruise industry from a traveler’s perspective. Identify
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Development Seventh Session 19-30 April 1999, New York TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THE GLOBAL IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM Background Paper #1 Prepared by the World Travel and Tourism Organization and International Hotel and Restaurant Association The Global Importance of Tourism prepared by the World Travel & Tourism Council and International Hotel & Restaurant Association A. Introduction Creating jobs and wealth 1. Travel & Tourism is the world’s largest industry and creator of jobs
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THE TOURISM LIFE CYCLE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CRETAN CASE Dr Konstantinos Andriotis 1 Hellenic Open University, Greece. Abstract: The increasing demand of international tourists for holidays has resulted in a rapidly increase of the number of tourist destinations. To explain destinations development the life cycle approach has been widely adopted. According to Butler (1980) destinations pass through a predictable sequence of six stages. These stages are: exploration, involvement, development, consolidation
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Langkawi Vision: Be the leading tourism destination in the Island development in terms of physical development, infrastructure. Mission: Island Developing structured and directed to become a tourist destination leading to benefit maximum to the people The Objectives 1. To be leading the socio-economic development, infrastructure and development centre of tourism products. 2. Provide investment opportunities for develop economic and tourism sectors. 3. Encourage community
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Initially, the tours will focus on promising markets in Viet Nam. Starting in the second year of business, Sunlight will start to enlarge its destinations to include primary business centers in Southeast Asia. This opportunity exist for two reasons: tourism is a growing industry and within industry international travel to Asia is growing much better, and there are very few providers of international travel to upscale customers. Sunlight’s target customers are high income (min. $70,000 for single person)
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MINALIN TOURISM: PROJECT FEASIBILITY STUDY INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE In August 27, 2011, the Sta. Monica Parish Church of Minalin was publicly declared a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum. Minalin took the initiative to promote the Church as an important tourism niche market for everyone to see and share its history and cultural significance. The rationale for this study is based on the idea to position Minalin as a tourism destination both for its cultural and eco-tourism
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courses, tourism is undoubtedly one of those selections that continuously interests students. Tourism is a truly global phenomenon and a resilient industry which has survived all major economic and political crises worldwide. (http://www.ucnorth.dk/Home/Programmes-Course/Service-Hospitality-Tourism_Management). The tourism industry is in fact one of the biggest and fastest growing worldwide. That means that the business of tourism creates numerous direct and supporting jobs. Tourism plays an
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Testing of scenarios for consistency and reliability 16 Conclusion 17 Recommendation 17 Bibliography 19 Introduction: Tanzania is endowed with some of the world's greatest natural wonders. Following major reforms in its foreign tourism policies, tourism has increased to become the nation's second leading foreign exchange earner. There are many weaknesses at national level including poor infrastructure, lack of trained staff, and legal and regulatory framework. In this paper, a case study
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define interpretation and discuss the effectiveness of interpretation as a means of influencing or even changing environmental attitudes and/or behaviour of visitors to protected areas and evaluate the roles of tourism and environmental agencies in managing & controlling the impacts of tourism in protected areas. For the purpose of this research more visitor-focused definition will be used. Definition of Interpretation There are two ways to describe interpretation. The first would be listing the
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