Tourism

Satisfied guests come back and do word-of-mouth advertising. This leads to a higher average infrastructure utilisation and at the same time leads to reduced advertising costs. Wehrli et al. (2011) stated that Lucerne gets over a million overnight tourists every year not counting the number of tourists who just stop by the city during the day. This staggering number can only take place if the visitors kept coming back to the city as the numbers do not at all imply that these million visitors…

Akwaaba! Tourism in Ghana Akwaaba! Welcome to Ghana, a friendly and hospitable tropical country in West Africa (Ghana Tourism Authority). A simple verbal greeting, smile, or handshake is an important social function for Ghanaians that expresses their concern for others and represents an open heart and mind. However, the left hand has limited use in Ghana; thus, the waving, pointing, and gesticulating in speech should be avoided. As one of the few English speaking countries, Ghana offers a safe,…

commentators characterize as globalization. The effects of globalization, as evident, are directly proportional to the industry of tourism. To this effect, there can be no gainsaying that in today’s world, tourism is the dominant industry of the world as every nation, region, town, and city strives to market their touristic attractions for the benefit of travellers. Tourism itself is a complex…

Tunisia differently to potential visitors after the attacks and have been offering holidays to Tunisia to the public with up to a 50% discount, desperately trying not to lose valuable customers (Thornhill, 2015). Tunisia has recently launched new tourism campaigns using clever puns with an aim to attract holidaymakers back to their country by using humour about their recent revolution, include the slogans "They say that in Tunisia some people receive heavy-handed treatment". This ad is now…

The Terrors of Tourism: Economic and Cultural Consequences Tourism is a practice observed all across the globe and is defined as “the activity of travelling to a place for pleasure” (“Tourism”). As people decide to visit new places to relax and get away, often-unrealized impacts can destroy tourist locations. Tourism obstructs the economic opportunity of its destinations for both the overall region and the individual citizens, and the idea of commercial travel tarnishes the culture of a region…

Tourism is a large and growing part of a country 's economy.It has often been a largest export earner and it provides significant foreign exchange income.And as it is a service industry, it provides a significant amount of employment which are employed directly or indirectly in tourism related roles.It is an ever growing industry that is beneficial for the host destination through tourists expenditures within the country.Therefore it is vital that every nations cooperates to set goals and plans…

This however, boosts the economy for brazil as people are relatively rich and reduces the absent of absolute poverty. Apart from NGO businesses other groups that have been involved in eco- tourism are the UNWTO which generates economic benefits for host communities, organisations and authorities managing natural areas with conservation purposes providing alternative employment and income opportunities for local communities. Others who do this…

HOT TOPICS: TRAVEL & TOURISM People wants to find a way to relax and get away from their normal life. They travel all around the world to learn about history, relax and amusement. What hospitality industry offers is a wide variety of transportation, lodging, amusement, etc. The question is, “What does it for every country to operate business within the industry hospitality, to support all the tourist?” How does the travel and tourism handle obstacles that may jeopardize business? What…

The Haines Case Study Question 1: Haines will definitely have a future in tourism. Despite that ;leisure and hospitably are a new category they have been trying for quite a while to attract tourists, but without a solid plan. However, they should be very careful when planning, due to the fact that they have to save the natural resources; which they still possess, after the mining, fishing, and timber exploitation that have been sustaining the communality for almost two centuries. Additionally,…

attain their socio-economic objectives (Morrison, 2013, p. 7). The management process may entail product development, marketing and branding, collaboration with various partners, and community affiliation. Destination management is significant as tourism is a highly competitive sector and in order to compete efficiently, destination have to provide superior value to tourists (Artal-Tur & Kozak, 2015, p. 20). A tourist’s visit will be affected by numerous services and experiences such as…