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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction Nigeria, one of the leading oil producers in Africa, recorded stable economic growth during the review period, driven by growth in both the oil and agricultural and service sectors. Its gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.4% in 2013, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates. In April 2014, the Nigerian government overhauled the GDP calculation proces...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Event management is an exciting and growing industry, as well as a unique career opportunity for everyone with a passion for the planning and organizing of events, such as concerts, conventions, parties, weddings, and other gatherings. According to Ramsborg, G.C.; B Miller (2008). Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Tourism overtime have become a strand part of many economies of many countries of the world, serving as a backbone upon which service sectors thrive with a backward and forward interconnectivity; wherewith different counties of the world interrelate along same tide (Ayeni and Ebohon, 2012:126). Wherewith the benefits of tourism are a matter of controversy, it cannot be...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION For the past three years, international tourism has been booming. According to the World Tourism Organization (WTO, 2009), International tourist arrivals reached 922 million in 2008, up 18 million over 2007, representing a growth of 2%. International tourism receipts rose by 1.7% in real terms to US$ 944 billion (642 billion euros). Following four years of consecutive stro...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Food is one of the principal factors items that have Recently, tourism industry not only has been one of the first place, every tourist as an organism is in need of the rapidly growing fields of the world economy, but also eating and drinking. This requirement holds true for all they has brought about economy development for diverse tourism destinations and situations in t...Continue Reading »
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» HAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Marketing communications forms a key aspect of the delivery of tourism services. This sector is heavily dependent on marketing because of the industries special characteristics as services. However, marketing communications is a great deal more than simply about advertising. Getting the right messages to the right people is perhaps one of the most important factors in d...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Sports tourism refers to travel which involves either observing or participating in a sporting event staying apart from their usual environment. Sport tourism is a fast growing sector of the global travel industry and equates to $7.68 billion. Sports tourism is traveling from one region, country, state, etc. to another in order to watch a sports competition or game. While ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The food service industry has changed tremendously over the past couple of decades (Belasco, 2007). Demographic changes are a driving force in the evolution of the food service industry (Friddle, Mangaraj, Kinsey, 2001). As noted in the latest Standard & Poor’s report on the restaurant industry, “graying baby boomers” with high disposable incomes have...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Tourism is defined as a composite of activities, services, and industries that delivers a travel experience to individuals and groups travelling fifty miles (about eighty kilometres) or more from their homes for purposes of pleasure. Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who “travel...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Tourism is defined as a composite of activities, services, and industries that delivers a travel experience to individuals and groups traveling fifty miles (about eighty kilometers) or more from their homes for purposes of pleasure. Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who “travel ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY For age long decades, travelling has always been a part of man. People travel for various reasons ranging fromcommerce, education, pleasure, relaxation, exploration, events and even for the fun of it. Traveling for various purposes is associated with man (Walker and Walker, 2011:14). Traveling dates back to the existence of man (Ashamu, 2007:19). He...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE Background of the study Cultural tourism is a rapidly growing phenomenon and has become one of the largest industries in the world. The impact of cultural tourism varies extremely. On one hand, it plays an important and certainly positive role in the socioeconomic and political development in destination countries by, for instance, offering new employment opportunities. Also, in certai...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Tourism is identified as an effective way to revitalise the economy of any destination as noted by Long (2012) and widely acknowledged as one of the fastest growing industry globally. The continuous and rapid growth of tourism is not in isolation of the stable economic growth experienced in the global economy, which lasted from the mid 1990 to 2...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The hospitality industry, and especially the food and beverage industry, continue to develop and change at a startling pace, and despite the current global economic conditions continue to grow and prosper. The provision of food and beverages away from home forms a substantial part of the activities of the hospitality industry. Like the industry ...Continue Reading »
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» INTRODUCTION The growing nature of competition in today’s workplace environment and its attendant consequences overtime has been alarming. This scenario brings adverse psychological, physical and health effects which hampers nutrition and productivity. Some of these demands could arise from inflexibility in working hours, excessive workload and multi tasking, unfair performance ...Continue Reading »
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» INTRODUCTION The sample population consisting of residents residing in Virginia was surveyed. The sample was proportionally stratified on the basis of tourism development stages covering counties and cities in the state. Three hundred and twenty one respondents completed the survey. Structural Equation Modeling and Hierarchical Multiple Regression were used to test study hypotheses.The results rev...Continue Reading »
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» INTRODUCTION The study was carried out at the Islamic and Christian sites of Jordan: five Christian holy sites are included, namely the Baptism Site, Mount Nebo, Our Lady of the Mountain, and the shrines of Mar Elijah and Mukawir. The Vatican recognized these holy sites as pilgrimage places in 2000. Eight Islamic holy sites are included too, namely, the shrines of Ja’far bin Abi...Continue Reading »
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» INTRODUCTION Kenya is endowed with a distinctive combination of tourist attractions spread all over the country that not only bring international tourists from all over the world but also local tourists too. For a Published long period of time, Kenya has long been oriented towards international markets which has proved detrimental because of the seasonality, political, social, economic and competi...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Human resources management as a tool for efficiency in the hospitality industry is the focus point of the research work. An indept survey method is adopted by the researcher to investigate how proper human resources management serves as a tool for efficiency in the hospitality industry. The truth of the subject matter revealed that it is either we embark on good human resources planning o...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study aims to examine three dimensions of development, namely, economic, environment, and social cultural issues caused by religious tourism in Mashhad. A quantitative method used to investigate 288 residents’ perceptions who are settled around the Imam Reza holly shrine. Mean and standard division of the variable is calculated to understated to what extend respond...Continue Reading »
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