Researchers pay more attention to the effect of social media on travel and tourism entertainment during the early years of the introduction of social media. Gretzel Xiang and conducted a study on "The role of social media in the search for travel information online." The aim of the study was to determine the impact of social media on travel and tourism in relation to global online tourism domain and in particular in the context of travel information search. A set of 10 predefined keywords in combination
The landscape of cultural tourism is becoming more competitive as the world is globalizing and numerous new technology start-ups have been popping out to compete with traditional cultural travel agencies. In addition to that, there is a rapid rise in the number of people traveling leading to the growth of the cultural tourism sector (Katsoni, 2014). There is also an inundating number of companies that offer the same cultural travel experience, hence potential customers have becoming more spoilt
The media has long been instrumental in the shaping of our society as far as history can recall and continues to play an integral role in human civilization. “The media refers to those systems and organizations of communications through which information is spread to a large number of people” ( 2011.In Merriam-Webster.com.Retrieved Nov 4, 2015, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary). One of the most prominent functions of the media is that of being the gatekeeper of information. According
communicate with anyone in the world easily; this miracle is the social media. The social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Youtube are not just a tool of communication but they are considered as the most important side in our life that contains our personal beliefs, thoughts, comments and relationships. New social media has become increasingly popular components of our everyday lives in today’s globalizing society. New social media provides a wide field where individuals can share experiences
Rr. Diana Ayudya Master’s degree students of architectural engineering concentration of tourism planning Universitas Gadjah MadaYogyakarta in 2006 has conducted research about “ The marketing strategy of the tourist area of prambanan temple as the historical and cultural tourist area in an effort to raise the number of tourists visit”. This research aims to conduct an analysis of the decline in foreign tourists to visit the tourist area of Prambanan temple with doing identify against perception,
antagonistic attitude towards the government and management authority. Some of the local communities may worry the tourism development directly threaten the site’s integrity. “East Rennell”, a natural World Heritage in the Pacific is a good example of demonstrating the impact of “unrealized expectation”. A study reported that the local communities envisaged that nomination would only boost the tourism development, but also regarding the building of new infrastructures like hospitals, flyovers and transport
In today’s business where stakeholders not only demand companies to conduct Corporate Social Responsibility (here after abbreviated as CSR) but also to provide related data and information about its scopes, quantity, progress, and achievements (de Grosbois, 2015), communicating CSR should be a common practice. CSR is successful when it is both well implemented and communicated (Du et al. 2010) because businesses cannot hope to enjoy concrete benefits from CSR unless they intelligently communicate
A common issue, in branches such as hospitality and tourism, would be the change of population in tourist towns such as Goolwa. Hospitality relies a lot on their business over the holiday period throughout the year, it is a high source of income. The same applies to tourism especially, places such as caravan parks, information centres and hotels all rely on the tourism incoming over the busier seasons. Therefore, if there is a lack of people over the holiday
There is a link between terrorism and tourism but it is not simple. Terrorism does not seem to have a big effect on domestic tourism but mostly affects international tourism. If a host country has had widespread media attention to a terrorism event, tourist numbers see a major drop from selected areas. Low level terrorism gradually reduces tourism over a period of time, and surprise, brutal attacks have an immediate negative impact. The prevalence of violence is more important than the enormity of
of tourism is increasing day by day. Tourism provides the foundations of foreign incomes, creation of employment, bases of both public sector and private sector income, cultural exchange, publicity of the country etc. In the 2012, the worldwide tourist visits exceeds 1.035 billion USD. Tourists spent over $1 trillion on the travel directly or indirectly, their spending was almost nine percent of the world’s GDP and six percent of its exports. Range of organizations associated with the tourism can