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Tourism Trends / The Role of Transportation in Tourism

« on: August 05, 2018, 05:28:13 PM »

Tourism sector is one of the main important sectors of the economy. Many countries take advantage of covering the budget deficit with the help of profits coming from tourism. That is why tourism sometimes is called a factory without chimney. But tourism has its own unique features that differentiate this sector from the others. Like in the other service industries, in tourism the customers, that is, the tourists come to the destination where the tourism services are provided.

As the matter of fact it is difficult to think of tourism sector without transportation. Transportation is the main mean to carry passengers, that is, the tourists to the actual site where tourism services are performed.

In this article, the actual transportation situation of Azerbaijan and other countries in tourism sector have been analyzed, statistical data of Azerbaijan and other countries have been used, the importance of tourism sector has been stated.

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Adventure Tourism / Sustainable tourism

« on: August 05, 2018, 05:24:52 PM »

Sustainable tourism, one that establishes a suitable balance between the environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development, plays an important role in conserving biodiversity. It attempts to minimize its impact on the environment and local culture so that it will be available for future generations, while contributing to generate income, employment, and the conservation of local ecosystems.
By doing so, sustainable tourism maximizes the positive contribution of tourism to biodiversity conservation and thus to poverty reduction and the achievement of common goals towards sustainable development.

Sustainable tourism provides crucial economic incentives for habitat protection. Revenues from visitor spending are often channelled back into nature conservation or capacity building programmes for local communities to manage protected areas.

Furthermore, tourism can be a key vehicle in raising awareness and fostering positive behaviour change for biodiversity conservation among the millions of people travelling the globe every year.

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Adventure Tourism / Sustainable tourism

« on: August 05, 2018, 05:23:45 PM »

Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make a positive impact on the environment, society, and economy.Tourism can involve primary transportation to the general location, local transportation, accommodations, entertainment, recreation, nourishment and shopping. It can be related to travel for leisure, business and what is called VFR (visiting friends and relatives).There is now broad consensus that tourism development should be sustainable; however, the question of how to achieve this remains an object of debate.

Without travel there is no tourism, so the concept of sustainable tourism is tightly linked to a concept of sustainable mobility.Two relevant considerations are tourism's reliance on fossil fuels and tourism's effect on climate change. 72 percent of tourism's CO2 emissions come from transportation, 24 percent from accommodations, and 4 percent from local activities. Aviation accounts for 55% of those transportation CO2 emissions (or 40% of tourism's total). However, when considering the impact of all greenhouse gas emissions from tourism and that aviation emissions are made at high altitude where their effect on climate is amplified, aviation alone accounts for 75% of tourism's climate impact.

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Adventure Tourism / Adventure

« on: August 05, 2018, 05:21:40 PM »

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports

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Community Based Tourism / Rural tourism

« on: July 16, 2018, 01:49:52 PM »

Rural tourism focuses on actively participating in a rural lifestyle. It can be a variant of ecotourism. Many rural villages can facilitate tourism because many villagers are hospitable and eager to welcome (and sometime even host) visitors. Agriculture is becoming highly mechanized and therefore, requires less manual labor. This trend is causing economic pressure on some villages, which in turn causes young people to move to urban areas. There is however, a segment of the urban population that is interested in visiting the rural areas and understanding the lifestyle.

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Sustainable Tourism / Sustainable tourism

« on: July 16, 2018, 01:45:57 PM »

Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make a positive impact on the environment, society, and economy. Tourism can involve primary transportation to the general location, local transportation, accommodations, entertainment, recreation, nourishment and shopping. It can be related to travel for leisure, business and what is called VFR (visiting friends and relatives). There is now broad consensus that tourism development should be sustainable; however, the question of how to achieve this remains an object of debate.

Without travel there is no tourism, so the concept of sustainable tourism is tightly linked to a concept of sustainable mobility. Two relevant considerations are tourism's reliance on fossil fuels and tourism's effect on climate change. 72 percent of tourism's CO2 emissions come from transportation, 24 percent from accommodations, and 4 percent from local activities.Aviation accounts for 55% of those transportation CO2 emissions (or 40% of tourism's total). However, when considering the impact of all greenhouse gas emissions from tourism and that aviation emissions are made at high altitude where their effect on climate is amplified, aviation alone accounts for 75% of tourism's climate impact.

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Sustainable Tourism / Tourism Concept

« on: July 16, 2018, 01:44:17 PM »

ourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".

Tourism can be domestic or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Today, tourism is a major source of income for many countries, and affects the economy of both the source and host countries, in some cases being of vital importance.

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Tourism & Hospitality Management (THM) / Tourism Concept

« on: July 16, 2018, 01:43:38 PM »

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".

Tourism can be domestic or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Today, tourism is a major source of income for many countries, and affects the economy of both the source and host countries, in some cases being of vital importance.

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Tourism & Hospitality Management (THM) / riverine beauty

« on: July 16, 2018, 01:33:56 PM »

Tourism prospects of the country's riverine beauty do not only remain untapped but also face a steady decline of the inland river ways losing navigability and past glory, thanks to lack of maintenance and desired services.The rosy prospect of riverine tourism faded with successive governments having ignored the sector decade after decade.People in general and tour operators lament the decline on lack of safe and tourist-friendly river vessels.The foreign tourists in particular are interested in exploring the people, local culture, nature and serene beauty of the rivers. They also show interests to hilly rivers and wetlands like Haor.A total of nearly 5,500 tourists guided every year by Bengal Tours, 35,000 are foreigners, said its director M Rafiqul Islam.

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Tourism & Hospitality Management (THM) / The Role of Transportation in Tourism

« on: July 16, 2018, 01:31:07 PM »

The Role of Transportation in Tourism
Transportation and travel can be discussed without taking tourism into consideration, but tourism cannot thrive without travel. Transportation is an integral part of the tourism industry. It is largely due to the improvement of transportation that tourism has expanded. The advent of flight has shrunk the world, and the motor vehicle has made travel to anywhere possible. Culpan (1987) identified transportation modes and management as the “important ingredients of the international tourism system,” acknowledging that linkage by air, sea and land modes is essential for the operations as well as the availability of support services such as fuel stations, auto repair, motels and rest facilities for land travel. Transportation in tourism is most often seen as just part of the tourism system which is in charge of bringing the tourists to the destinations, a means of getting around the place and leaving it once the duration of the trip is over. Transportation system of a tourist destination has an impact on the tourism experience which explains how people travel and why they choose different forms of holiday, destination, and transport. The improvement in transportation modes plus low fares has increased the accessibility of areas once considered off-the-beaten-path. Accesses to tourist sites vary according to the nature of the site, the state of infrastructure, and the efficiency of the public transport system.

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Tourism & Hospitality Management (THM) / natural environment

« on: May 14, 2018, 07:30:28 PM »

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to the Earth or some parts of Earth. This environment encompasses the interaction of all living species, climate, weather, and natural resources that affect human survival and economic activity. [1] The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished as components:

Complete ecological units that function as natural systems without massive civilized human intervention, including all vegetation, microorganisms, soil, rocks, atmosphere, and natural phenomena that occur within their boundaries and their nature.
Universal natural resources and physical phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water, and climate, as well as energy, radiation, electric charge, and magnetism, not originating from civilized human actions
In contrast to the natural environment is the built environment. In such areas where man has fundamentally transformed landscapes such as urban settings and agricultural land conversion, the natural environment is greatly modified into a simplified human environment. Even acts which seem less extreme, such as building a mud hut or a photovoltaic system in the desert, modify the natural environment into an artificial one. Though many animals build things to provide a better environment for themselves, they are not human, hence beaver dams, and the works of Mound-building termites, are thought of as natural.

People seldom find absolutely natural environments on Earth, and naturalness usually varies in a continuum, from 100% natural in one extreme to 0% natural in the other. More precisely, we can consider the different aspects or components of an environment, and see that their degree of naturalness is not uniform.[2] If, for instance, in an agricultural field, the mineralogic composition and the structure of its soil are similar to those of an undisturbed forest soil, but the structure is quite different.

Natural environment is often used as a synonym for habitat. For instance, when we say that the natural environment of giraffes is the savanna.

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Tourism & Hospitality Management (THM) / Developing sense of self

« on: May 13, 2018, 01:56:22 PM »

1. You must believe in yourself

Believing in yourself is the number one necessity to maintain confidence and an unwavering sense of self. Trusting yourself regardless of what others say, believe, or expect of you and from you is an absolute must. When you begin to question yourself, you bring doubt into your life and allow insecurities to start showing up. Support yourself though all of your choices and decisions, trusting that you have your best interests at heart and know what is best for you.

2. You must live and speak your truth

When you allow yourself to listen to others as they tell you who you are and what you should be doing you give your power away to them in that moment. You allow their voice to become more powerful than yours. Staying connected with what you believe, how you feel, your values, morals and integrity, your point of view, and how you want to live your life is going to help you gain confidence and give you the courage that you need to live for you and not anyone else. This will also help you match the person who you show to others with the person who you are inside leaving no room for discrepancies, which will also help your strengthen your sense of trust and discernment so you are able to appropriately take advice.

3. You must see yourself in a positive light

Seeing yourself in a positive light requires an awareness and an alignment of your thoughts and actions, and it also requires discipline and consistency so you are able to shift any self negativity into positivity. You must consciously choose to change any thoughts or feelings that do not benefit you, speaking positively to yourself about yourself always. It takes daily work, but the results are tremendous, especially when it comes to maintaining a healthy sense of self. You must also give yourself credit for all of your accomplishments no matter how small. Compliment yourself and give yourself credit for all that you are and that you do daily.

4. You must be compassionate with yourself

Insecurities mainly arise from guilt. Guilt always taints your sense of self and has the power to remove any joy from your life. You must be compassionate with yourself and forgive yourself to overcome guilt. You must also take it easy and meet your own needs. Treat yourself as you would a baby or someone who needs extra care. Be patient, understanding, loving, nurturing, complimentary, supportive, empathic, and everything else that you need with yourself.

5. You must keep moving forward

Just like you must forgive yourself, you must also forgive others and let go of the past. Let go of anything that is keeping you from being focused on the present. Move forward, knowing you are perfect the way you are and there is no reason to stay stuck in the past. Move beyond all forms of pain from hurt to regret, and allow yourself to connect with who you are now and where you are now. Allow yourself to see how far you have come and how much you have grown by getting out of your own way.

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Tourism & Hospitality Management (THM) / sense of self

« on: May 13, 2018, 01:55:46 PM »

There are days when you feel confident and happy, and there are others when you feel as if something is missing. Those other days are the days when that “something” causes you to feel less than and uncertain of yourself. During those days you also find yourself questioning your abilities: Do you have the courage to talk to your boss about the promotion you deserve? Do you have the finances to pay the bills? Do you have the strength to let go of that relationship that no longer suits you?

Those days can question your confidence, happiness and everything you thought you knew about yourself because you give them that power. You allow outside sources to take over what you already know internally. Strengthening your sense of self is going to be key to getting you through those days successfully. Here I will give you the five must’s to help strengthen your sense of self and increase your confidence.

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Tourism & Hospitality Management (THM) / Mode of transport

« on: May 10, 2018, 12:52:53 PM »

A mode of transport is a solution that makes use of a particular type of vehicle, infrastructure, and operation. The transport of a person or of cargo may involve one mode or several of the modes, with the latter case being called intermodal or multimodal transport. Each mode has its own advantages and disadvantages, and will be chosen for a trip on the basis of cost, capability, and route.

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Tourism & Hospitality Management (THM) / means of transport

« on: May 10, 2018, 12:50:04 PM »

The Industrial Revolution in the 19th century saw a number of inventions fundamentally change transport. With telegraphy, communication became instant and independent of the transport of physical objects. The invention of the steam engine, closely followed by its application in rail transport, made land transport independent of human or animal muscles. Both speed and capacity increased rapidly, allowing specialization through manufacturing being located independently of natural resources. The 19th century also saw the development of the steam ship, which sped up global transport.