Tourism Essay Examples

I would like to give a especial thank to Mr Sanjika Perera, the director of Sri Lanka Tourist Board, London who helped me to bring this report to a success by providing latest reports, brochures and answering the questionnaire and spending his valuable time for my interview. Next I would like to thank my friends, […]

Tourism differs from travel in the following aspects: Reason to travel: It can be anything but remuneration from the place visited. It requires a change from familiar environment. Period of stay: The least would be one day and maximum would be a year. General growth of tourism in India In recent years tourism in India […]

1. Introduction Tourism injects 4. 5 billion annually into the Scottish economy and is one of Scotland largest employers, employing 197,000 or 9% of the workforce (13% in the Highlands & Islands). It pays the wages of more people than the oil, gas and whisky industries combined. Scottish tourism has grown since 2002; hotel occupancy […]

Discuss why it is important for the tourism industry to distinguish between different types of tourists The Oxford dictionary defines the word ‘tourism’ as “the commercial organization and operation of holidays and visits to places of interest”. The tourism industry comprises of various sectors such as – lodging, food and beverage services, transportation, entertainment and […]

The Caribbean is far from immune from the global economic crisis. Although many Governments initially thought themselves safe from its effects it has become apparent that every nation will see: • Falling remittances from nationals overseas; • A significant decline in tourism/visitor arrivals (forecast by some governments to be down by between 30 and 40 […]

The purpose of this report is to delve deeper into the impacts that natural disasters have on the tourism and hospitality industry. In recent years the world has taken enormous hits from natural disasters which have caused major chaos and upset. Some fairly recent disasters that have taken place are the high intensity earthquakes in […]

Final report on Grenada’s Booth at Yeosu Expo 2012. The sky of Yeosu was lit up with spectacular fireworks at 9:20 p. m. on Sunday as the city celebrated the end of 93-day Yeosu Expo 2012, which kicked off on May 12. Hundreds of spectators, participants and performers joined hands and danced in circles to […]

Whenever one thinks of travel and tourism, pleasant images of relaxing on the beach, strolling through colorful neighborhoods, or hiking through a landscape of awe-inspiring natural beauty may come to mind. Not too many people associate travel and tourism with business and commerce. Yet, the economic, social and cultural benefits tourism brings to the local […]

Tourism Trends The travel and tourism industry is the world’s largest and most diverse industry . In a report of World Tourism Organization entitled International Tourism, it has pointed out the desire to standardize the definitions in the tourism industry throughout the world. This shows that tourism is an industry at its mature stage. Standardization […]

The Five Forces model of Porter will be applied in this part ?Bargaining power of customers Although there are some strong competitors are also providing M. I. C. E, the market in the North is joined by very few players. Therefore, the choices for Northern customer are somewhat limited. Despite the fact that they may […]

  Because most of us work in organisations, learning organisational behaviour is able to help us understand, predict and influence the behavious of others in organisational setting, and trends in organisational behaviour.One Australia hair-care company develop a range of hair products with refillable packaging in order to maximise brand loyalty and minimise the cost to […]

Malaysia’s tourism ministry wooing expatriates in West Asia As a part of huge campaign to promote tourism in Malaysia, the Tourism Ministry of Malaysia is going all out to attract not only tourists from West Asia but also expatriates working in the West Asian countries. According to Minister for Tourism Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku […]

The growth of the internet has made direct selling easier and faster for both tour operators and tourists. According to Frost (2004) the fascination with new technology has changed the way tourism providers interact and trade with their customers. The primary focus for this essay is to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of direct selling […]

Abstract The following report examines the impact of party tourism in Ibiza, Spain. Ibiza has been widely regarded as the best spot for party tourism in the world and the amount of tourists visiting the destination for the sole purpose of partying replicates this trend. However, this type of tourism is not ideal and the […]

The large scale impacts of Tourism include environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts. Impacts can be positive, as well as negative, but should never be underestimated. The concept of sustainability is factored into these tourism impacts, when the size of the impacts become large enough to drastically alter economic, socio-cultural and environmental areas of a tourist […]

Venice is famous as a heritage city and attracts visitors across the world by its elegant architecture. According to statistics there were a steadily growing number of tourists in the past. In 1952 approximately 500 000 tourists spent 1. 2 million bed nights in Venice. The visitors had increased to 1. 21 million until 1992 […]

Introduction A huge market with 13 millions of population – China – often seem very lucrative for foreign investors to eager to share this huge economy pie to increase their profit margins, since China’s open door policy. Some companies have made their fortune from this big pie, and some have reported loss. What are the […]

The cultural impacts of tourism on the host communities The impact that tourism has on the cultural lives of communities is one of the most important issues debated by tourism researchers and academics today. There is an increasingly growing concern that tourism development is leading to destinations losing their cultural identity by catering for the […]

Introduction In this paper, we mainly focus on the relationship between tourism destination and tourism industry. We take Sydney as an actual case to analyze the management, marketing and interrelationship between industry and destination. The tourism industry brings an array of benefits and in part the 6. 8 million people of New South Wales depend […]

The Socio-Economic effects of dolphinariums on small island destinations By: Joanne Armantrading & Stefan Oosterwaal International Management & Business Research Methodology University of Aruba 2008 Table of contents Intro 3 Literature Review 6 Conceptual Model11 Stakeholders14 Hypotheses 21 Research Design23 Secondary data analysis27 Primary data30 Conclusion37 References38 Introduction There has been a lot of talk […]

1. Introduction Nowadays the level of awareness is quite high that tourism has a general impact on the destination. Many times it is talked about the economical impact which is mainly considered positive as it creates jobs in that area and brings people to the destination that spend money there etc. The environmental impact is […]

Introduction and History Macao Grand Prix, a motor-racing annual event, is the biggest sport event in Macao. It happens on every third Thursday till Sunday in November. It is very expected and excited every year that thousands of fans and tourists will visit Macao from different countries. Many advanced competitors from more than three hundred […]