tourism can exist as close to violence as political instability, inter-warring and institutionalized drug trafficking. But before you rethink your summer vacation, use some common sense here: Flying to your favourite beach resort and checking into the Marriott doesn’t carry the same kind of risk as strolling through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Like anywhere else, there’s always the paradise you see and the hell you don’t. In the most unfortunate cases however, it seems there’s very little of the former
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investigation, and she was reportedly the person who pulled the trigger on a $200 million transfer of customer funds to JP Morgan Chase on the eve of MF Global's bankruptcy. * Jan 12, 2012: about 100 MF Global customers gathered at the New York Marriott Downtown hotel to hear James Giddens - the trustee appointed to liquidate MF Global - say that MF Global Inc. had distributed about $3.8 billion thus far and had about $1.5 billion under its control, while there was still $1.2 billion
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Burger King The first Burger King was called Insta Burger King, created on July 28th, 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida. The founders were Keith J. Kramer and Mathew Burns. This partnership was started in 1952 with Mathew Burns asking his stepson, Keith J. Kramer to go into business with him. At that time Keith owned a drive-in restaurant in Daytona Beach, Florida. Keith went out to San Bernardino, California to visit a McDonald’s. While in California, Mathew and Keith obtained the rights for
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Marketing Chapter 7 Notes Product, Services, and Brands: Building Customer Value I. What is a product? * Product: anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a want or need. * can include events, persons, places, organizations, ideas. * Services: An activity, benefit, or satisfaction offered for sale that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. * Examples: banking, hotel,
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Event Planning – Industry Analysis Endra Newell Overall Summary Event planning is the organization, preplanning and preparation of countless details required for an event as well as the management of these details during the time the event actually occurs. It is the event planner’s responsibility to ensure all details of the event are being managed from selecting the appropriate venue to ensuring all invitations are printed and sent. They are accountable for the event running smoothly and
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1. Background 1.1. Employee turnover Employee retention was recognized an important issue and became one of keys to reach the business success for an organization, however it is hard to find and keep (Currie, 2006. p.119). At same time, turnover as the flip side of retention also has been arising concerned and researched in the past 20 years (Hinkin & Tracey, 2000, pp.14). Turnover was defined by Robert H. Woods as a replacement cycle that a new staff must be employed and trained when an open position
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION Marriage is one of the deepest and most complex involvements of human relationships. It is a corner stone of society and a very necessary part of the social system. It is a crucial and sacred bond between two personalities merging into one for ideas, attitudes, habits and likes and dislikes. In Philippines marriage is considered a lifelong partnership. It is the foundation stone on which the family is built. Basically marriage is a social
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Business Level 3 Unit 13 – Recruitment and Selection in Business By: Khalid Jeylani P1 In this assignment I am going to identify how two organisations plan recruitment using internal and external sources. My two organisations are Samsung and Tesco Samsung Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and are the largest South Korean chaebol
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Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading, studying and analyzing this chapter, students should be able to understand: 2.1 The interrelationship among market segmentation, targeting, and positioning, and how to select the best target markets. 2.2 The bases used to segment consumers, including demographics, psychographics, product benefits sought and product usage-related factors. 2.3 Behavioral targeting and its key role in today’s marketing
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------------------------------------------------- FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Topic 11: Define and Calculate Depreciation and Amortization Reference: Kimmel, Paul. D., Weygandt, Jerry. J. & Kieso, Donald. E. (2006). Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Used with permission from the publisher. Introduction Depreciation is the process of allocating to expense the cost of a plant asset over its useful (service) life in a rational
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