Hospitality and Tourism Management Assessment Title: Investigation Report Length: Investigation Report 800 words (+/- 10% allowable range) Assessment Description . The purpose of this individual assignment is to develop your skills in analysing the structure and functions of hospitality and tourism management. This will enable you to understand the different types of business management issues that can arise in the operational, human resource, financial, and product and markets contexts. Individually, you are required to research the most recent scholarly publications and identify and analyse the top two current issues that prevail in each of the contexts within tourism and hospitality management. Your task is to write an 880 words report outlining the key findings.[unique_solution] Your investigation report MUST follow a professional structure: The operational context (250 words) The human resource context (200 words) The financial context (200 words) The product and markets context (250 words) You are required to use at least 8 sources of information that are referenced in accordance with Harvard Referencing Guide. These may include corporate websites, government publications, industry reports, census data, journal articles, newspaper articles,…
Establishing Counter-Terrorism Strategies Employed Globally and Impacts Introduction Terrorism activities are issues with deep roots that have resisted various counter-effort and strategies put up by different nations. Nevertheless, terrorism groups comprise of different people from different regions, which makes it easier to gather comprehensive information of countries. On that note, technology has further made it easier for the group to organize their terror activities and make it hard for countries to track them (Barber, 2015). Bearing in mind that, among the groups, there are experts in various fields such as information technology who can misdirect whoever tries to trace them (Speckhard & Shajkovci, 2018). Additionally, the world has become small due to developed infrastructures and business connections; hence, people can access different countries easily, which has also given the terror groups an advantage to survey and organized attacks (Barber, 2015). Consequently, many people from different parts of the world have lost their lives and their loved ones. The activity has installed fear within regions, which has affected the socialization among people, whereby it even takes time before welcoming and accepting…
Geography-Australia, New Zealand, Tropical Pacific and Antarctica Cook Island is named after a captain, James Cook, who landed there in 1773. As at January 2020, the population of the country stands at 17,660. This number is a decrease from the number recorded in 2019, which was 18,244 (Country Meters, 2020). The decline in population is as a result of external migration. The majority of people living in Cook Island are Christians (96%) with other groups represented by 0.8% of the total population. 65% of the population age between 15 and 64 years old. Cook Island’s staple foods are sea cucumbers and fish that are either eaten raw or cooked then served with butter and garlic or lemon juice and oil, respectively (Advameg, Inc., 2020). Cook Island has embraced traditional cooking that includes an oven dug on the ground and filled with firewood. The people of this region have special ceremonies that they make specials meals. The feast is referred to as umukai with meat being the meal of the day. The economy in this region is unstable, and they depend on foreign…
Covid-19 in Indonesia The coronavirus pandemic in the current is a real threat to the existence of the human race, with over 900,000 individuals infected and 45,600 deaths as of the initial week of April (World Health Organization, 2020). The pandemic that has its epicenter in Wuhan, China, necessitates stringent measures imposed on citizens of affected countries in a bid to curb the spread. Indonesia is one of the countries ravaged by the pandemic, which forms the basis of this study where discussion on the incidence and response to the disease will occur. Additionally, factors affecting the answer to the infection, myths, and misconceptions surrounding the condition. Incidence and responses of covid-19 in Indonesia World Health Organization (2020) outlines that Indonesia has more than 1790 covid-19 cases with initial cases detected on 3 February. As of the first week of April, there were 170 confirmed deaths attributed to the condition. Following the steady rise in cases in March, the country instituted a fast response team for emergency screening for the virus (Indonesia NL., 2020). Additionally, there were measures to…
Religious tourism Religious tourism is a form of tourism that is motivated strongly or solely by spiritual reasons. It is one of the oldest kinds of vacation industry which is also called spiritual or faith in tourism. Individuals take religious holidays to check, expand, or reflect on their beliefs. The main objective of religious tourism is to participate in activities that are offered by religious tourism. People have visited religious sites from time immemorial. Religious motives influence these visitations. People used to go on pilgrimage regardless of the state of weather conditions, health, or other problems. The Greek word per-epidemos was used to define the traveler. The Latin phrase peregrinus was also used to refer to an individual who toured foreign nations or a person who never had nationality rights. Journeys to places that were regarded to be holly have been in existent since the origin of humankind. The voyages were more prominent during ancient days. The most notable destinations included Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, Rome, India, China, and Mecca. Religious tourism attracts all market segments, but specifically religious individuals who…
The Future of Tourism Tourism is the business of attracting, accommodating and entertaining tourists. Tourism is a significant economic activity practiced by many states in the world. Tourism can either be domestic or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications to the country’s economy. Here, a scenario about the tourism in Catalunya is assessed and the future of tourism in this destination. Catalunya is one of the main tourist destinations in Europe and tourism evolution in Catalonia had gone through very many cycles. In the year 2017, Barcelona received over 30 million tourists with the tourists spending 48 million nights in the destination (Hernández,2016). Catalonia is used as the case study because of how the city manages tourism, and the transparency showed by the stakeholders. The city has formulated ways to ensure the growth of tourism in the region by addressing environmental, cultural diversity and social responsibility. This strategic planning aims to ensure that tourism is sustainable by attracting more tourists in the future and to enable the city to be able to manage any adverse effects…
Tourism and Hospitality Tourism and Hospitality is an industry involved in travelling for pleasure, or business, and the way people interact when they meet either in hotels, casinos, or even restaurants. Tourism is the primary activity that necessitates the existence of hospitality. Generally, tourist and hospitality are interdependent in that the existence of one field depends on the other. The field of tourism and hospitality is broad and requires special attention during its analysis. The management of the tourism and hospitality sector goes hand-in-hand with the current issues in the market. Tourism can be defined as the activity of visiting and area either for adventure or for recreational purposes. Hospitality on the other side can be defined as the reception of guests or visitors in a given area. The main purpose of promoting tourism is the improvement of trade between regions. Tourism and hospitality are related in that, tourist are visitors who require special reception at their tourist destinations. For an individual to become a tourist, several factors have to be incorporated. First, the individual has to be interested…
Select an advertisement from a magazine or newspaper that is promoting a tourism or hospitality enterprise Your task: a) Select an advertisement from a magazine or newspaper that is promoting a tourism or hospitality enterprise, such as a hotel, a restaurant, a transport company, airline, an event or a club or or a tourism destination region, such as a town or city – depending on what is relevant to the degree you are doing. Make sure that the advertisement you choose has sufficient information in it to complete this assessment task. b) Gather relevant statistics such as length of stay, expenditure and market segments concerning the region in which this business is located and/or target market for the type of enterprise chosen. You can access this information from a number of sources, for example the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Tourism Research Australia, both of which can be accessed from libraries; state and regional tourism organisations (e.g. Tourism New South Wales, Tourism Queensland); l[unique_solution]ocal Councils and visitor information centres; corporate websites; or independent academic and popular media. c) Using the…
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Ebola Lessons to Tackle COVID-19 At the end of December 2019, China notified the World Health Organization (WHO) on the existence of unknown cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei province of China (Fedson, David, Steven, and Ole Martin, 2020). Two weeks later, Coronavirus novel (SARS-CoV-2) was identified as an agent that causes Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of March 5th, 2020, the disease had spread through human transmission in various parts of China, and to over 55 Countries (Gates, 2020). The Relevant lessons available from the Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016 in West Africa can be used to tackle this deadly virus. During the outbreak of Ebola, with numerous travel restrictions and closure of borders, West Africa endured economic shocks as a result of deterioration in tourism and trade. The US responded by writing off $150million debt in the infected countries and reinvested the same in their health sector (Ho, C, Chee, and R,2020). Furthermore, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provided emergency funds worth $200 million to fight the outbreak. Therefore, Africa’s major lenders, the IMF, the US, the…