Introduction On December 2013, American Airlines and US Airways merged to become the “biggest player in the market” according to American Airlines Group Inc. (previously known as AMR Corporation) SWOT Analysis (2014). The merger was a vital decision in enhancing the airline business for customers especially with the growing global tourism. Evidence shown by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), that international tourism grew by at least 5% in 2013 (p. 7). The merger has had many benefits, specifically
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 as an Employment Driver As a human resource intensive industry, tourism’s greatest impact is on the generation of employment. Such employment generation may cover areas of direct interaction with the tourists, such as persons employed in hotels, airlines, tour operators, restaurants, retail, leisure and entertainment. However the employment impact spreads over a larger area of the economy, covering jobs associated with the input industries such as supplies, government
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
Introduction – There is very important role of Information Media Communications in developing Tourism Policy and Cross Cultural Communication for Peace, Security for Sustainable Tourism industry. Increasingly, ICTs play a critical role for the competitiveness of tourism organizations and destinations. ICTs are becoming a key determinant of organizational competitiveness. This strategy involves the planned communication component of programmes designed to change the attitudes and behavior of specific
environment, most airlines are reviewing their strategies from time to time. Airlines are sharing risks and resources to remain in a competitive advantage which is known as alliance. This report analyses the internal and external analysis of the strategic alliances in the airline industry. 2. The Macro context (External) The alliance in airline industry consists of external influences that affects the performance of the business and it is beyond the control of an individual airline. The three influences
pressing issue. However the government together with the other industries including the Singapore Tourism Board has overcome the problem when a relief package being issued to aid those affected by the SARS outbreak economic progress fall which instigated a fee rebate for airlines and cruise industry and refund property taxes for hotels and other properties. Years after the SARS outbreak disappears and visitors returned back to
development of a country in various forms. Since the 1990's, the transportation infrastructure of India has undergone a drastic change. The demand for transport grew at an annual rate of 10%, in the last decade the demand in the transport and logistics industry grew side by side with the accelerating Indian Gross Domestic Product . This growth increased the demand for all transport services. The transport and logistics services in India,
and Thai culture and attracts visitors from all over the world and it has become a major tourist destinations. Tourism Authority is trying to promote Thailand tourism image from different angles. At the same time, China has become the biggest source country of tourists for Thailand. These years, Thailand is becoming one of the important destinations for mainland China’s outbound tourism. Since earlier years, Thailand became the first destination country opened to Chinese tourists by the Chinese government;
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