Cultural competence

How do the worlds of human geography and physical geography overlap In my opinion , there are something the same between human geography and physical geography but there are also some differences between human geography and physical geography. Here are some answers from the internet. Human geography is the study of people, where they lived, their cultures, how do their work, their food, homes, and religion. Physical geography is the study of earth's land, features, landforms,…

Destination is the word which used most frequently in the field of tourism. Destination image is mostly accepted as an important aspect in successful tourism destination marketing. It is very important to recognize that the tourists’ perceived images since it affects the individual’s perception and on looking behavior and destination choice. Moreover, it also affects the level of tourists’ satisfaction because they often evaluate the travel experiences depending on the perceived images before…

The Hawker Centre is a quintessential element of the Singapore culture. Hawker Centres has provided a distinctive attraction to curious tourists and a locus of memories for Singaporean away from home. It pulsates with a life and rhythm unique to Singapore (Kong, 2007). Hawker Centres serves as a spontaneous gathering point for many residents, providing opportunities for stall owners and customers to interact and it also manifest aspects of local communities and its everyday life. In Singapore,…

heritage. Heritage sites in UK attract the tourists all over the world. Historic sites in the UK like Westminster palace needed to be repaired and conserved from time to time. Therefore, there are various regulations are in existence for protecting the cultural heritage sites (Timothy, 2011). As per the above information, it can be said that in the UK BID is supported by the government and private sector too. These historic sites are assets for tourism development as mentioned in the above…

Вступление: Cultural tourism is the type of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those people, their art, architecture, religion, and other elements that helped shape their way of life. This form of tourism is becoming generally more popular throughout the world, and the role that cultural tourism can play in regional development in different world regions is really great. It is also generally…

Throughout the world, there is a great plethora of similarities and differences. For example, if we were to compare how a person lives in the city versus one in a rural area we would how they interact with others, possibly daily diets, and what they do for fun. Of course each person has their own way of doing their own thing if not life would be pretty redundant. The most fascinating part of this is comparing the similarities and differences of the British police and U.S police and what makes…

Tourism is one of the largest and important economic activities in most countries around the world including Malaysia. Tourism is known as one of the fastest growing global industry as mentioned by World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. According to Hui, Wan and Ho (2007), tourism industry will not only give benefit to the industry itself but also to the other sector such as retail industry, construction industry and transportation industry. Malaysian government has included tourism industry as…

“Let a Hundred Flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend” -Mao Zedong, May 1956 This was the beginning of the Hundred Flowers campaign, a movement within the Communist government aiming to terminate restrictions for Chinese citizens and granting them a freedom of thought and speech. Launched by Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China in 1956, it encouraged Chinese citizens to share ideas, opinions, suggestions and allowed them to openly criticise the party and its policies.…

maintain tradition whereas the ‘School’ Xhosa are educated and adopted the western ways. Boas introduced the term cultural relativism, where cultures are all on the same level and one is not more advanced than the other because culture develops at its own pace. Therefore it is not acceptable to judge one’s culture according to the norms of one’s…

each other and it's known as cultural encounter. Cultural encounter is the way that the culture clash with each other. You can see the similarity between them and the difference as well as the huge impact that they leave on the individuals and the society. Cultural encounters give us the chance to see and understand how different people and different society live, express themselves and the way they choose to maintain their history. We can see that effect of cultural encounter between Benin and…