established for the performance of the organization of tourist visits for medical purposes. The main activity is providing services for travel, accommodation and activities related to health care. Services include: contact with selected health care organizations, organizing transport, accommodation and additional tourist activities. Their services exclusively performed in accordance with business partners such as dental clinics, medical clinics, clinics for cosmetic surgery, etc. The founder Zrinka Vrdoljak
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History of World Tourism The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. It is the leading international organization in the field of tourism, which promotes tourism as a driver of economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability and offers leadership and support to the sector in advancing knowledge and tourism policies worldwide. It encourages the
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Executive summary: The tourism marketing strategy has been prepared with realistic, achievable goals and objectives that will maximise the opportunities provided to tourism operators within UK. It is constructed in a manner that provides linkages with the marketing strategies of major industry stakeholders. Britain tourism industry profile: Tourism is the UK’s sixth largest industry – amounting to £105bn in revenue each year. It has employed over 1.3m people, generates £20bn per annum in foreign
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investor confidence • Weak performance in the plantations • Limited Geographic Presence External Origin (attributes of the environment) Opportunities • Strategic acquisitions • Resort World at Sentosa (RWS) • Improvement in Malaysian tourism sector Threats • Legislative changes in gaming sector • Economic condition in UK • Growing competition Overview Genting Berhad (Genting) is a Malaysia-based investment holding and management company. Its diverse business portfolio and its
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ABTRACT Tourism is all about travel; and the role of transportation in its operation is vital. Travel can be discussed without taking tourism into consideration, but tourism cannot thrive without travel. Transportation is an integral part of the tourism industry. It is largely due to the improvement of transportation that tourism has expanded, though this expansion is good due to increase revenue that would be captures as a result of passenger traffic will have an impact negative side. In some area
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Planning the holidays Let me present some reflections on the issue that, I dare say, must be the most exciting for majority of ordinary people, who spend the most of their lives (from 5 to 7 days a week) working and then have a couple of weeks of holiday in summer months (if they have luck). It is planning holidays. In our modern world we can refer to a lot of travel agents, who’ll try to help us choose the best variant for our holiday among infinite multitude of different destinations
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from a tourism destination. These segments are examined in order to find attractive segments for local wellbeing products. Segmentation in the context of wellbeing and wellness provides companies information on what kind of tourists are most interested in buying wellbeing products and contributes to the existing segmentation theory by using data driven segmentation in a situation where traditionally commonsense segmentation is used. The literature surrounding benefit segmentation in tourism is reviewed
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TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY IN TANZANIA. DEFINE TOURISM,AND TYPES Domestic Tourism is defined as a combination of all tourists’ economic activities which include traveling to places, within the boarders of a country one normally resides, and which is other than ones usual environment, for a period of less than one year but for at least one night, and whose main purpose of visiting is other than the exercise of an activity, remunerated, from within the place visited. (UN/WTO). Therefore a person
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waves. Whatever their reasons, there are various opportunities to satisfy every appetite. 2. Examine the infrastructure this destination has or doesn’t have to support current and future tourism demand (e.g., airport, highways,etc.). The infrastructure found in Maui does appear to currently support the tourism demand. When I visited in August 2011, the airport had very little congestion. There were seats available on the airplane which even allowed us to choose where we wanted to sit. Unfortunately
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Kumarakom: A Case Study of Sustainable Tourism Background Kumarakom is situated on the banks of the Vembanad Kayal (backwater), 10 km. west of the Kottayam District Head Quarters in Kerala. Located between 9o37’ N and 76o25’E, the Kumarakom panchayat is bounded by Kavanar and Aimanam panchayat in the north, Kottayam - Alappuzha Canal in the south, Thiruvarppu panchayat in East and Vembanad Kayal in the west. It has an area of 51.67 sq. km. of which 24.13 sq. km. is Vembanad Kayal, 15.04
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