Channels of Distribution Official Website One of the most effective online distribution avenue for hotels is their own websites. Even though the original development fees of the websites are high, the costs related to maintaining the websites are low. A website provides a hotel with an ideal platform to provide its customers with adequate information regarding their brands in addition to appealing to its target audience. A website can make a hotel generate high and direct sales without paying any commission to another party. The focus of many hotels is generating many bookings using their websites, which is the major reason why they offer incentives to customers who prefer direct booking(Dholakia1, Zhao and Dholakia, 2009). Currently, many customers who want to access information regarding the hotels that they want to visit use tablets and mobile devices. According to the TravelClick, the bookings of hotels using mobile devices increased by 42% between 2013 and 2015. This implies that hotels should ensure that their websites are optimized. Online Travel Agents This is a vital strategy that positively impacts on revenue management of…
Debate Question: Children of migrant workers should be eligible to take a college entrance examination in the city where they stay with their parents? Over the last three decades, the education issues of migrant children in China have led to a raging debate (Li, 2010). As the population of migrant children continues to increase, the Chinese education sector faces the challenges of improving the standards of education for migrant workers. Despite the government’s efforts to improve the primary education for migrant children, current studies have shown inequalities in the access of education, especially how most migrant children in the rural areas cannot attend public school education in urban areas. The findings of a study by Li (2010) indicated that the attending rate for rural migrants attending public schools in urban areas stands between sixty-five percent to eighty-five percent. This implies that about fifteen percent to thirty-five percent of this population do not access public school education in urban cities(Li, 2010). As a result of these inequalities, the government must allow children of migrant workers to take the college entrance…
Shift Towards Defined Contribution Plans and Reduced Pension Benefits in the Public Sector. Introduction In the United States, there has been an increased pressure from different interest groups to shift the public sector pension plans from the defined benefit to defined contribution. (Bodie, Marcus, & Merton (1988)describes a defined benefit plan as a pension plan where a retired employee receives a specified amount of money for life. The received amount, in most cases, will include a joint amount for the beneficiary and his or her spouse. On the other hand, (Bodie, Marcus, & Merton (1988) describe a defined contribution plan as a retirement saving plan where both the employer and the employee contribute towards the savings account for the entire period of employment. In the defined contribution plan, however, there is no guarantee of receiving retirement benefits. In the past five years, Broadbent, Palumbo, & Woodman, 2006 state that there has been a gradual increase in the number of public sector employees enrolled in the defined contribution program. Broadbent, Palumbo, & Woodman, 2006 argue that the shift mostly revolves…
How Environmental variables influence social well-being and social quality in the Netherlands Education is one of the most used variables used to determine the affairs of the people of the Netherlands, for it is a clear indicator for population literacy to be able to decide on those that can read and write or those that are not able to read and write. Perhaps those that are followed by the overall education attainment are clearly and currently interested in the well-being of the Netherlands, for opting out to include the expected years of education. The life satisfaction level is, however, measured here with some subjective variables. In that, we have selected three variables that are preliminary data, which are satisfied with our daily activities, happiness and life with satisfaction. In regards to comfort in our daily lives, one should, however, be happy with what one has in that happiness of the individual will be experienced, which triggers full life satisfied. Job searching is a clear consensus issue that unemployment negatively affects the well-being of the people of the Netherlands. Most…
Investments and Derivatives Executive Summary Problem All workers face a risk of insufficient real returns on their retirement savings as a result of inflation risk. Therefore, our team has been appointed by the Dubai International Financial Centre to recommend an optimal investment portfolio for expatriate workers in the UAE for their Gratuity Fund. Solution To reduce the inflation risk, our team will use the Life Stage Model (LSM) as it gives younger members exposure to classes of assets that have a higher probability of generating high real returns in the long term. For older members, their contributions are invested in asset classes that offer high levels of protection for their capital. Table 1 shows how the contributions of individual workers will be allocated to different portfolios founded upon the various life stages of the members. Individuals in the diverse portfolio stages will be transferred to the subsequent portfolio in four quarterly groups a year prior to the next life stage to ensure that they are not discriminated against by the constant fluctuations in the investment sector. Moreover, we will use…
An Ideal Work Environment A work environment has an essential influence on employee morale, job fulfillment, and team drive. Employees should be treated like shareholders in a company or organization because they play a significant role in development and success. The outcome of the employees depends on how they are treated in an organization. An ideal work environment irrespective of the size of an organization should be one that encourages teamwork, enhances productivity using technology, offers employees a chance to challenge themselves professionally, has a positive culture, and promotes equity. There are various factors that can be considered in perfect work surroundings. According to the Maslow hierarchy of needs, self-esteem, and self- actualization are factors that significantly contribute to the performance of employees (Cherry 1). When organizations concentrate on the two elements, then employees’ motivation and productivity is likely to increase. An organization that offers a perfect work environment should have a strong vision and mission statement. Workers are motivated when they know the short and long term goals and strategies since they have an idea of what is expected…
The Attack on Pearl Harbor from the Perspective of Franklin D. Roosevelt The Pearl Harbor Attack is one of the landmark events in U.S history, especially concerning the country’s foreign policy, its entry into WWII, and the complete end of America’s isolationism. While this attack was both a surprise and terrible to the Americans, it influenced global acknowledgment of the U.S as a Superpower country. This paper explores the entire event from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s standpoint and how the congress’ avowal of warfare against the Japanese Empire confirmed America’s superiority on military capabilities. Also, this paper examines the motivators on the Japanese Naval and Air forces to attack all the pacific islands and especially the U.S Hawaiian military and naval base, Pearl Harbor. Thus, this paper focuses on the President’s Roosevelt’s view of this deadly and historic attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. The attack of the Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor attack concerns the historical invasion of the U.S military and naval base in the Hawaii islands by the Japanese army. This deadly attack happened on the…
Fraud in Medicare Facilities Q.1 Medicare is an easy mark for fraudulent equipment sales because people have failed to account for the authenticity of suppliers of the equipment (Blanchard 2015). No check is done on the genuineness of the patients’ conditions as well as checking how qualified the doctors are. Ghost services are services offered by people who have no enough knowledge about what they are doing. It’s mostly done by greedy people who want to access money easily without meeting the right and the required requirements. US healthcare system is vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse because of inadequate funding by the government, which leads to a lack of legal and administrative tools to available to the federal government. The presence of fee for service payment systems in the private sector and automated claims processing systems. Q.2 Different forms of excessive medical billing. Excessive services which are billing something more significant than what level of genuine care requires. This can apply for both services or items. Duplicated claims where the provider changes some portions to charge twice for the…
Determinism and its threat to Free Will Introduction Human beings’ behavior cannot be exclusively linked to a certain stimulant. It is, therefore, essential to determine whether human beings react from forces they have no control over or whether they decide on how to behave. There is a connection between determinism and free will. Although determinism appears to be in favor of most psychologists, it assumes that a person’s behavior results from forces within and outside, which we cannot control. It is the argument that a person’s anxiety could result from their genes. This essay will focus more in-depth on determinism and how predicable our actions are. Determinism and its threat to Free Will Explaining in detail what determinism is, it can be grouped into either external or internal. External determinism is a theory that behavior is triggered by factors outside an individual, such as school and media. Children can, therefore, sometimes get aggressive when raised by violent parents. Internal determinism, on the other hand, is a biological approach whereby behavior is governed by evolution. Some reactions are triggered by…
Foreshadowing Foreshadowing is a literary technique in which an author provides an earlier clue of what is to come in the advanced stage in the story. Foreshadowing always comes at the beginning of the story, and it allows the reader to grow expectations regarding the impending events. An author may execute foreshadowing in many distinct ways. The paper explores how Ambrose Bierce, Flannery O’ Connor, and Kate Chopin exploits this technique of foreshadowing in their texts to convey their message to the reader. In Ambrose Bierce’s book, In An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, the author professionally exploits the literary technique of foreshadowing to provide the reader a continuous clue that good old Peyton Farquhar is going to become a dead body towards the climax of the story. I enjoyed the more refined occasions of foreshadowing since they, to me, better show the author’s skill. For example, foreshadowing is shown through the constant mention of Farquhar’s neck all over the story. “His neck pained severely,” and “his neck was aching.” This is demonstrated in paragraph 18 and 35 respectfully. It…