Why do People Travel? With the development of society‚ the tourism industry has become one of the industries with the strongest momentum and largest scale in the world economy. As for China‚ it appears to be one of the mainstays of China’s future development and the first choice of relaxation to many people. Miscellaneous choices of travelling packages‚ such as luxury tour and expedition tour‚ indicate that the purposes of travelling differ among people. From my perspective‚ this ongoing trend
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It could be argued that the verb “to travel” encompasses many connotations as people around the world‚ from different backgrounds‚ socio-cultural‚ linguistic and professional‚ choose to travel to a particular destination for different reasons‚ influenced by a variety of extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Throughout the years‚ many researchers in the field have sought a more academic answer to the question “Why do people travel?” It is the aim of the present paper to critically examine different authors’
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2 2. Disintermediation and re-intermediation of the travel agents 3 3. Travel agencies responses to a challenging market 6 4. Conclusion 8 5. References 9 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays‚ the travel distribution channel is very complex and characterized by the presence of many different kind of intermediaries which operate in a very competitive market. Since the beginning of the travel industry‚ intermediaries have always played an important role for
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in history. His story would become wildly popular and spark many imaginations when it was dictated to and written down by Rustichello da Pisa‚ in The Travels of Marco Polo (c.1300). Along with his father and uncle‚ Marco set out for the seat of Kublai Khan at Khanbaliq‚ Cathay. During the 17 years Marco was in Kublai’s service‚ he would travel throughout the empire doing the great Khan’s bidding. It is unclear when Marco made his way to the city of Hangzhou‚ the former capital of the defeated
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service for their dollar‚ but also feel valued and respected by the workers providing the service (Kernbach & Schutte‚ 2005; Langhorn‚ 2004; Varca‚2004; 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
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customer needs in travel and tourism contexts. Communication skills is important an important part of the travel and tourism industry. It is important to use the appropriate methods of communication for a given situation. Communication takes place face-to-face‚ by telephone‚ in writing electronically (e-mail and fax). Face to face is dealing directly with customers either face to face‚ individually or in a group situation. Dealing with customers face to face has a few ground rules. You must always
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Why should people travel? This is the story of a woman‚ who travelled the world to find that the best place is home. However‚ the journeys took her across continents over oceans. This story began when a little girl was sitting on her porch watching the pedestrians fleeting by. When suddenly a huge noise jolted her out of her day dreaming‚ and all she saw was a metal bird flying overheard. The noise made her shudder and she ran into the house screaming for her Dad. Running into his arms‚ with no
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Why Walk When You Could Run? It has been said by many‚ "Any society‚ any nation‚ is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members”. What if the weakest member of a society is placed in a position to carry the town’s woes? That is true in Ursala Le Guin’s short story‚ “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Le Guin’s depressing tale describes a society that is neither compassionate nor relevant‚ speaks about a culture of people who are corrupt thereby making the characters static. However
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Supply Chain in the Travel Industry The travel industry is an industry that is in constant change. It is the type of industry that must change with the times‚ including how it conducts business‚ how it sells its products and services‚ and how each link of their supply chain works and connects with the rest of the chain. While each brick and mortar location and travel website are similar to their counter parts‚ each one has a varying supply chain they use in order to get their product and services
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a part of a culture. Often these writings are aimed at a specific group of people. In the case of Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels and Voltaire in Candide‚ their writing is aimed at European society and its preoccupation with materialism. Swift and Voltaire satirize the behaviors of the wealthy upper class by citing two different extremes. In Gulliver’s Travels the yahoos are not even human but they behave the same way towards colored stones that the Europeans do. In contrast‚ the people
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