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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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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Advantages and disadvantages of developing mass tourism Today tourism is one of the largest industries in the world. In some countries it is the main economic division. There is a wide variety of tourist types within the tourism market today,so much so that the term ‘average tourist’ has become irrelevant. (Murphy,1985) The United Nations states that ‘In Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the world tourism is the main economic division was expected to generate 7.3% of gross domestic product
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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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NATIONAL ITEGRATION National integration is the awareness of a common identity amongst the citizens of a country. It means that though we belong to different castes, religions and regions and speak different languages we recognize the fact that we are all one. This kind of integration is very important in the building of a strong and prosperous nation. India is a country with innumerable diversities, an entity composed of many communities, races classes, languages and subcultures. In any
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Community and Recreation: Community Recreation Community The Merriam- Webster (2012) defines community as a unified body of individuals with common interests living in a particular area. A community is also a local grouping within which people carry out a full round of life activities. Although families or other groups can sometimes be relatively self-sufficient, most of them do not live in isolation. For many reasons, ranging from economic interdependence to shared cultural values, families
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Make a decision to support eco-friendly tourism this Earth Day. Retrieved from http://www.examiner.com/article/make-a-decision-to-support-eco-friendly-tourism-this-earth-day-1 In the given article the author pings a caution reminder to the travelers to start some essential things on the Earth day April 17.Since tourism industry places huge stress on the environment, as a traveler we should support eco-tourism by using eco-friendly products. Some of the tourism industry began to encourage this by providing
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Medical tourism is becoming a popular option for tourists across the globe. It includes primarily and predominantly healthcare facilities, combined with travel and tourism. The term medical tourism describes the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain cost-effective and high quality medical care. Various countries like Thailand, Malaysia, India, etc are promoting medical tourism aggressively. The key competitive advantages of India in medical tourism stem from
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world of possibilities. Its warm and friendly people make tourists feel welcome along with its state of the art infrastructure. With Singapore being a stop over point on long haul flights to Asia or Australia from Europe or the Americas, the tourism within Singapore has been increasing as the flights have been increasing. Many airlines now offer special package deals on stop over holidays in Singapore. In 1964 Singapore’s Tourist Promotion Board was established with the mandate to promote
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