Tourism has been widely considered one of the world’s largest and fastest growing sectors for contributing to economic development (United Nations World Tourism Organisation [UNWTO], 2011). In many countries, tourism has an important role in creating direct and indirect employment and contributes to income generation. Tourism in developing and least developed countries is one of the main sources of foreign exchange earnings, and one of the significant tool for reducing poverty (UNWTO, 2013) and achieving
The literature review presented in this chapter will focus on tourist motivations and gender studies in tourism research. This is an exploratory study where the research is to investigate Malaysian women in Generation Y towards solo traveller. This chapter will provide relevant information of the consumer behaviour on decision making, an overview of the gender scholarship. In doing so, discussion of various theories and concepts of motivations and needs of the tourists and marketing tools as the
wants to buy a consumer product one prefer user reviews and discussion in public forums on web about the product. As a result opinion mining has gained importance. This online word-of-mouth represent new and measurable source
of global value-added in services, where social innovation and service innovation are progressively overlapping. Nowadays, social innovation practice is often implemented in service sectors such as social services (e.g. social entrepreneurship), tourism, finance, health, and education (The World Bank, 2015). Although the paradigm of social innovation attracts the attention of practitioners and policy makers, there is currently no clear agreement about the concept of specific social innovation activities
The Impacts of Technology in the Tourism Industry Human Contact vs Technology A literature review was done on Traditional Human-Touch Service and Technology Based Self Service in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The purpose of the research was to outline the strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats of both methods and see the impacts that they both have in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The literature stated that the qualities that human beings possess such as being able to trust
UN, 2000). As Thien (2009) demonstrated , tourism enterprise are can be used as a tool produce |to make|to form} equal opportunities for women; create opportunities for employment and financial gain generation; promote course of instruction and cut back illiteracy; increase awareness on health (maternal health) and hygiene; provide possibility for viability
introduced and how that can affect in selecting Hotels in the Downtown area. It is aimed at establishing criteria for excellent Service in Hotels, which can serve as the basis for building good relationships with Hotel Guests. An extensive literature study was undertaken and aspects that were discussed in the secondary research include the various components of customer service, as well as the marketing environment of Hotels in Egypt in General and Cairo in particularly. An empirical study
To accomplish this research, two research approaches were carried out, the first consisted of literature exportation on concepts related to the size of tourist destination, followed by a Focus Group and interviews with the tourism industry experts to discussion and selection of the most appropriate concepts. According to Malhotra, 2006, exploratory research can be made to the more descriptive research to determine the thesis or hypothesis gathered during the first search. Empirical research was
Preparation of tourism environmental calendar based on climatic conditions of region is one of the most important foundations of planningTourism; because the role of climate in tourist attraction is very important in days that is tourists arrivals. Therefore, the first step in planning the supply tourism product to demand market is estimation of indicators the region climatourism. In this paper using weather station statistics of Khash during a period have been analyzed climatourism based on bioclimatic
1. Problem/Issue discussion Tourism sector is main source of foreign currency exchanges to Malaysia compare to manufacturing sector. In this article study about the last decade several events that represented the potential shocks to multinational tourist arrival to Malaysia. The problem of this article is to study whether shocks have permanent or transitory effect on tourist arrivals in Malaysia. One aspect of tourism in Malaysia that has not been considered is the effect of shocks to the time