Tourism and the individual

Ebook "Global tourism (Third edition)" offers a comprehensive exploration of the key issues in tourism. Authors draw on their individual insights to assess and critique contemporary tourism and take a view of the future. Global Tourism draws on the insight of thirty-nine contributors to chronicle and foresee the effects of tourism on contemporary society. Contributors provide interdisciplinary, international perspectives on the critical questions, problems, and opportunities facing the tourism industry.

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Lecture Tourism theory, concepts and models - Chapter 12: Tourism and the individual. By the end of this lecture you should be able to: define propensity and intensity; analyse barriers to travel and know how to disaggregate interest as a discrete barrier; understand the role of the leisure paradox in influencing travel over one’s life span; apply generational cohort theory to explain differences in travel by generations;...

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In India, most of the dairy production centres have been managing through cooperative, private bodies or by individuals. This story is specifically articulated successful management of a cattle dairy named “Cowbell Dairy Farm” located at Beechwal area of Bikaner district in Rajasthan state (India). An entrepreneur named Mr. Naveen Tanwar who is a lawyer by profession, established a dairy aimed to provide clean, hygienic and organic milk to the people.

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The present study examines and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the communications and customer relationship strategies that have been developed by public relations and individually simultaneously, influencing guests to visit at Hotels in Samosir.

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Status survey of the cave scorpion, Euscorpiops cavernicola, was carried in a cave system of Bac Kan province. A total of 56 (9 adults) and 45 (7 adults) individuals were recorded during the years 2014 and 2015, respectively. This species is only known from Hua Ma cave, which is strongly threatened by tourism development.

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The aim of this study is to understand perceptions of Irish tourist with respect to tourist destinations that have faced a terrorist attack in recent years. This study focuses on Paris where terrorism incidents occurred and aims to understand how these attacks affect tourists‟ perception in Ireland. There is a need to conduct studies in relation to impact of terrorism on tourism as tourism is considered to be one of the important sources of economic activities and income for individuals and economies in modern world.

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Chapter 11 - Sociology of tourism. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Appreciate inordinate social impact travel experiences make on the individual, family, or group, and society as a whole especially the host society; recognize that a country’s indigenous population may resent the presence of visitors, especially in large numbers; discover that travel patterns change with changing life characteristics and social class;...

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Most tourism and business recruitment activities fall into the Quality, Connected Places component of a regional strategy. Finally, leadership programs, annual meetings, and citizen forums represent the core elements of Civic Collaboration. Development professionals can use the same framework to map their existing strategy.

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Our model might be a useful instrument for both academics and practitioners who want to better understand consumer behavior; it may also serve as a basis to successfully create, market and monitor luxury brands or products in a cross- cultural context. Even if the world of luxury products is not homogeneous, we believe that the underlying consumer motives and desires transcend national boundaries in a structure that derives from the individual‘s situation and the luxury value dimensions.

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Destinations are some of the most difficult entities to manage and market, due to the complexity of the relationships of local stakeholders (Sautter and Leisen,1999). Managing and marketing destinations is also challenging because of the variety of stakeholders involved in the development and production of tourism products. The destination experience is essentially comprised of regions, resources and amalgams of tourism facilities and services, which often do not belong to individuals.

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The individual segments of business tourism (conferences and meetings, exhibitions and trade fairs, incentive travel, corporate events, outdoor events) are the five segments which are the prime focus of marketing activities by venues and destinations, because decisions about where the events take place are open to influence. The organisers of the event may have greater flexibility in deciding where it is held, and are able to use their own judgement or discretion. For this reason, these five segments are often described as ‘discretionary’.

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Mexican corporations that do not accept foreign investment (by stipulating as such in their by- laws) may acquire real property in the Prohibited Zone for any purpose. In contrast, while a Mexican company that allows foreign investment may also purchase real property within the Prohibited Zone, it can do so for non-residential purposes only, and provided that the corporation’s by-laws demand adherence to the Calvo Clause and that the corporation notifies the Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE).

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Similarly, when a problemto be solved froma domain where the problem-specific knowledge is absent evolutionary algorithms can be successfully applied. Evolutionary algorithms are easy to implement and often provide adequate solutions. An origin of these algorithms is found in the Darwian principles of natural selection (Darwin, 1859). In accordance with these principles, only the fittest individuals can survive in the struggle for existence and reproduce their good characteristics into next generation....

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This paper outlines some examples of the ways in which these measures have been undertaken at the enterprise level and the accreditation framework within which these are often established. It also proposes the idea that it may be useful to extend satisfaction measurement from a focus on the enterprise to that of the destination. This is a much more complex task that at the individual enterprise level but may be worth the effort as destinations compete for market share.

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