According to Hikkerova (2010), tourism traditional suppliers and service providers are: - Transport companies, such as airlines, railways, shipping lines, rental cars; - Hospitality companies, which provide accommodation services. One of the most profitable industries of the tourism sector is the airline industry. Airline companies manage complex operations, thus they need to handle inventory and other internal activities in an efficient, fast and effective way (Buhalis and Jun, 2011). At the beginning
Winsted, 2000). World travel and tourism as one of the world’s largest industries, supporting 266 million jobs and generating 9 per cent of the World GDP. Each year the global travel and tourism industry generates several thousand billions U.S. dollars in revenue. According to UNWTO the number of International tourist arrivals worldwide exceeded the one billion mark for the first time in 2012 (appendix 1).
Development (HRD) approaches of Tourism Industry while utilizing Air India Ltd., New Delhi as the subject in enriching the potential of its workers. It is set on identifying the issues, problems and inadequacies confronted by the industry while rectifying them in accordance to the needs of each personnel as well as integrating the traits of HRD into the organization using every relevant human resource structures. In this context, a number of issues that pose a concern to the industry are known to be the lack
Introduction In tourism industry, the term "destination" and the distance between destination and the origin have been remaining unclear, and each person may have different calculation and definition. Furthermore, the destination branding theories and models are originally developed base on marketing or branding context. These theories and models appear to show the limitations when they were employed to explain highly complexity situation, such as destination management issues. The study aims
global tourism and hospitality industry. Due to the easy availability and affordability of transport and lodging, the tourism industry shows no sign of slowing down even in the terms of crisis. Government and private sector businesses also played vital role encouraging the rapid growth of travel and tourism industry, whereas all the addressed needs for travelers was recognized and have been accomplished. 2015 is proved to be another on-going successful year for the tourism and travel industry, being
Tourism is one of Austria’s most important industry sectors. Domestic and foreign visitors appreciate the exceptionally well-trained staff, tailor-made themed offers and the excellent infrastructure. Austria is also considered a paradise for sports – an image that has been successfully transported by Austrian sports equipment manufacturers. This is all the result of valuable, export-oriented tourism expertise, which companies all over the world can profit from. Factor Conditions Austria is a country
e-commerce has allowed tourism industry to change the traditional way through website utilization. Website utilisation is one main reason for the existence of e-tourism adoption. The purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of technology, organisation and environment (TOE) towards e-tourism adoption. In addition, this paper aimed to identify the level of website adoption in both hotel and travel agencies. Data were gathered using online survey questionnaires from 47 tourism companies in West
2007). However, tourism companies have less drive to communicate CSR; due to their low quality and usability, low adoption, varied data and information with regard to its scope and depth for different companies (de Grosbois, 2015), and difficulty of using it for external evaluation and comparison (Seyitoglu and Yuzbasioglu, 2015). A study involving 239 global tourism companies from 10 business sectors to determine the extent to which the companies
Tourism: Tourism in Pakistan has been said as being the tourism industry’s “subsequent large component”. Pakistan, with its various cultures, human beings landscapes, has attracted ninety million tourists to the country, nearly double to that of a decade ago. Because of danger of terrorism the number of foreigner vacationers has gradually declined and the shock of 2013 Nanga Par wager traveler capturing has extraordinarily adversely affected the tourism industry. As of 2016 tourism has begun
Tourism is the world’s largest and one of the emerging industries worldwide (UNCTAD, 2007). As mentioned above, tourism is one of the major industries in many countries, including Sri Lanka, with the highest growth potential. Tourism considers as the world’s largest employer and also considers as major sources of substantial foreign exchange earner to any country (Blank, 1991 & Richards, 2003). According to Beeton (2006), tourism is one of the major means that helps to development of local community