Effects of Casinos Review of Literature The Effects of Casinos and the Gaming Industry: Their negative effects outweigh the benefits Fall 2011 With the rapid growth of permitted gambling in the United States, much debate has risen over the positive and negative impacts of the gaming industry and casinos upon our society. Very little research has been done in the past to assess the influences upon our communities and our citizens. However, more and more issues are surfacing that are inducing
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University of Ballarat | Industry Analysis Report Gaming Industry in US | BUMKT 5922 Competitive Analysis Individual Assignment | | Carolina Dos Santos (ID: 30058334) | 9/4/2011 | Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Introduction 4 3. Marco Environmental Analysis 5 4. Industry Analysis 7 5. Strategic Options and Recommendations 10 6. References 13 7. Appendices 14 1. Executive Summary It is expected that US gaming will not be the world number one
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Undergraduates' Perceptions of Tourism and Hospitality as a Career Choice Scott A. Richardson Griffith University Gold Coast, Australia E-mail: scott.richardson@griffith.edu.au ABSTRACT This study explored undergraduate tourism and hospitality student’s views of the industry as a career choice. Three hundred and seventy-nine tourism and hospitality students, from eight Australian institutions, completed a questionnaire rating the importance of twenty factors in influencing their choice of career
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personally think people should just accept or at least look away from gay marriage if they are against it. One should worry for their own life and not others, therefore I believe that marriage should not be overturned, but rather be left alone. The negative of Gay marriage is that originally and socially marriage is supposed to be between
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Chapter 10 SOCIO-CULTURAL EVALUATION 1. Importance of Socio-Cultural Evaluation The socio-cultural resources of Central Luzon are potential resource-assets for tourism development. These resource-assets has great tourism application that can generate community-based livelihood and employment opportunities. The sociocultural resources include the traditional communities, archaeological and historical sites, festivals, indigenous arts and crafts, cuisine, myths and
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Year, the Department of Tourism has been actively marketing the country as a safe tropical holiday destination (DOTa, 2002). The aggressive sales missions and advertising campaigns, along with the various activities in 2002 commemorating the International Year of Ecotourism, aim to increase visitor arrivals, and consequently bring in more foreign currency to the country. How much is actually at stake? In 2000 alone, the total annual revenue directly attributed from tourism amounted to about US$ 2
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entrepreneurship as a panacea for inclusive growth in underdeveloped ‘Base of the Pyramid’ (BOP) regions, but it may also lead to unanticipated negative outcomes such as crime and social exclusion. Our objective is to improve the understanding of how entrepreneurship policies can lead to socially inclusive growth at the BOP. Drawing on data collected from Brazilian tourism destinations with varying entrepreneurship, innovation, and social inclusion policies, we argue that weak institutions coupled with
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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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(2005) note ‘niche tourism’ has become a growing trend occurring in current years in contrast to what is frequently related to as ‘mass tourism’. Cusack and Dixon (2006) add niche tourism is known to present diversity and provide opportunities with a form of tourism that aims towards sustainability alongside considering expenditure from tourists. Furthermore, it suggests a more practical set of strategies that distinguishes tourists. Gartner (1996) demonstrates how niche tourism consists of distinct
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position, Indonesia has natural beauty and biodiversity which varied, such as mountains, oceans, beautiful beaches, endemics animals and plants such as komodo, cendrawasih, and spices. Most of Indonesia's natural characterize in agriculture. Meanwhile, tourism is an industry that does not require big investment in the long run before giving return. It means that Indonesia has a huge potential to develop agrotourism which is part of the creative economy and community based, as one of the biggest contributors
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