durables) and services marketing. Services marketing typically refer to both business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) services, and include marketing of services like telecommunications services, financial services, all types of hospitality services, car rental services, air travel, health care services and professional services. The range of approaches and expressions of a marketing idea developed with the hope that it be effective in conveying the ideas to the diverse population
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Seasonality and recruiting talent The Challenges Recruitment and retention have long been identified as one of the hospitality and tourism industry's biggest challenges. This is due in part to the highly labour intensive nature of the industry, especially in contexts where customer service expectations are high (Hughes & Rog, 2008). The Icelandic tourism season is relatively short which forces companies to hire a lot of seasonal workers for a short period of time. Thus, it can be hard to
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IMPACT OF SERVICE QUALITY ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: EVIDENCES FROM THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY IN PAKISTAN MS Candidate Ubedullah Amjad Ali SHAIKH Institute of Business and Technology – Biztek, Karachi, Pakistan Naveed Ur Rehman KHAN Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris – UPSI, Perak, Malaysia Email: naveed.r.khan@gmail.com Abstract: The purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature of service quality importance in restaurant industry. The study has been based upon the Servqual technique
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of Business Administration Sam Houston State University 1986 Master of Science, Hotel Administration University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2007 A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Hospitality Administration William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration Graduate College University of Nevada, Las Vegas August 2010 Copyright by Lisa Young Thomas 2010 All Rights Reserved THE GRADUATE COLLEGE We recommend the dissertation
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Employee productivity and job Satisfaction Research Project MSA 699 Sabrina Foster Central Michigan University Table of Contents Pages Number List of Tables List of Figures Chapter 1 Problem Definition 3 Chapter 2 Literature Review 6 Chapter 3 Research methodology 11 References 15 Appendix A Survey instructions 17 Survey/Interview Questions Chapter 1 Problem Definition
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INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE TOURISM SECTOR IN KENYA INTRODUCTION Tourism in Kenya dates back to pre-independence days and history has recorded that as early as the 1930's, overseas visitors and explorers had started coming to Kenya mainly for big-game hunting expeditions while others came in search of solitude and adventure. These expeditions were locally referred to as "Safari" thus lending the travel world literature with a new vocabulary. Among the early visitors were statesmen, royalties and
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will provide you with an overview of the unemployment situation that faces our society today. How unemployment impact the family life, working class, whites, blacks, Hispanic, and other races. That doing such difficult times all areas of the job sector faces some degree of uncertainty, and this is felt by all. Doing these times we witness an increase in the number of workers out of work and the high number of job claims, which has a negative effect on our economy. What we can do to turn around
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.................................................................................. 13 GENERAL INFORMATION & REGULATIONS .............................. 14 General Regulations for Bachelor of Science Degrees 14 Special Regulations for Degrees in Hospitality and Tourism Management........................................................... 27 Franchise Agreements .......................................................... 27 EVENING UNIVERSITY -GENERAL INFORMATION & REGULATIONS ......................
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DECLARATION I Japhet NKURUNZIZA ,do declare that this research project is my own work. I have to do the best of my knowledge acknowledged all authors or sources from where I got information. I further declare that this work has not been submitted in any university or institution for the award of a degree or any of its equivalents. Signed…………………………………………..date………./……………/………………. APPROVAL This is to acknowledge that this research project has been submitted with my
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