Essays on Excursions

My Self-reflection in Accra Ghana

The quote that mostly impacts my personal perspective with regards to any activity that I embark on is Socrates’ that states, ‘to know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.’ Such a perspective tends to be relevant especially when one is approached with new knowledge or information such that it becomes easier to understand it. The aspect of diversity is quite relevant in any profession with regards to analyzing, understanding and accommodation various needs, personalities, culture, attitudes and many more factors present in the social environment.

Learning About Myself and Diversity

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The Need for A Vacation

According to Gump & Matthews (2000) and Hartig et al. (2013), the growing demands that people endure from their daily jobs to other responsibilities, there is very little time for them to fully recover. As such, workers tend to suffer from accidents, distress, illness and other issues. The costs associated with restoration that is insufficient is rather on the high side in both the short term as far as well as in the long term. Employers are continually seeking ways to improve the lives of their employees by mitigating the problems related to overwork and the like. These provisions that ...

Introduction

As one of the fastest growing markets within the leisure industry, cruise tourism bridges the gaps between exploration and comfort, providing an alternative way for individuals to envisage the world around them. Due to its increase in popularity, the cruise industry has had to adapt to trends in consumer needs; balancing luxury, exploration and expectation in order to create a unified package that can compete with rival companies within the cruise industry. Focusing on the Viking cruise company specifically, this case study shall illustrate how companies within the cruise industry perform when adapting to pressures and demands by consumers ...

Xanadu Main Beach Resort

Reputation : one of top hotels in Australia, 4,5-star, high rating on websites (booking.com – 9.2), recommended for family resort, for sandy beaches, for surfing, reasonable prices.

Pricing policy: practically the same prices all year round, but for January, average cost – from $250 to $300

Products/Service range: car rent, free car parking, gym, pool, free Wi-Fi, household appliances and facilities in each room, spa room, tennis court, games room, daily room cleaning, excursions.

Customer Loyalty: special facilities for disabled people, no smoking, sound-insulated rooms, wedding special offers for honeymoon. Brand recognition: quite popular and reliable among Australian hotels. Established since – not stated anywhere. Positioning: Australia, Gold Coast, Main Beach, Pacific Street, 59 Sales tactics: no special offers, ...

MODERN MARKETING FOR AN ANCIENT CITY

MODERN MARKETING FOR AN ANCIENT CITY

Introduction

Belfast is one of the world’s most ancient cities, its location at the mouth of the River Lagan having been continuously occupied since about 2,000 years BCE. There are good reasons for this. Courtesy of the Gulf Stream, the site has a mild climate that seldom gets above 65 degrees F. or below 35 degrees F. Its northern latitude gives it one of the world’s shortest winter, and longest summer, days at the biannual solstices. It rarely snows. The city is ringed by low mountains that create a microclimate to ...

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Promising for the future is an endeavor set for at least unqualified disappointments. The factors involved in the dynamics of reality cannot be totally controlled, oftentimes have their own lives or evolutionary stages to follow, to conform to someone’s idea of how things should be. The idea of ‘should be’ is a visionary’s dream and a realist’s joke. The promise of imperialism in Conrad’s time and perspective as J. Hillis Miller understood it can either be a contrived promise from the imperialist power to deceive the dominated people into ...

Introduction

At present, tourism is one of the most promising sectors of the world economy, ensuring the satisfaction of one of basic human needs - the need for rest. Many countries are rich in cultural and historical areas, but Italy should be highlighted among all of them, because of its unique architecture, history, culture, and mainly because of the great importance in tourist activity. The “face” of the country has changed dramatically over the last century. The fame of modern Italy is provided not only by producing automobiles, chemical products, fashionable clothes and shoes, popular worldwide films, but also by ...

Sri Lanka is a country located on the same island in the Indian Ocean. It is a unitary state with a presidential form of government. In the history course Sri Lanka was under the domination of India, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK. In 1948 Sri Lanka gained independence and in 1972 changed its name of Ceylon to Sri Lanka, which means “blessed land”. Colombo is informal capital city, and the official – the nearby town of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. Under the current constitution of 1978, the President is the chief executive and the chief of the armed forces. Traffic on the island ...

The air travel remains to be the most preferred means of transport in the world today. However, managing the operations in the air industry is one of the most challenging tasks given. This due to the fact that there are several challenges that affect a smooth running of the daily operations including technical failures, human errors and unforeseen natural calamities. Problems caused by human factors include technical failures as a result of an improperly fixed aircraft or a runway collision resulting from ground operator errors among other factors. Naturally caused woes, on the other hand, involve weather related problems such as ...

Michigan is the state in the Midwestern part of the United States, in the Great Lakes region. It is surrounded by the great Canadian city of Ontario on its northern and eastern border, and by Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, the strait of Mackinac, Ohio and Indiana on its southern side. Illinois and Wisconsin states border in the west. A total area of the state is 58,527 square miles. Michigan state is also known as the Great Lake State because it is surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Erie. ...

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The company recognize the amount received from hotel, tour and transportation at the time services are provided to the customers. Various sources of revenue for the company and their respective classification is as follows: - Amount deposited by the customers on account of cruise deposits represents unearned revenue which are the then classified as cruise revenues along with revenue earned from onboard activities . These revenues are recognized on completed voyage or pro rata basis. - Further, the revenue earned from sales to guests of air and other transportation to and from the ships is recorded in cruise ...

Abstract

This paper details the extensive review on modern concept of Hybrid Vehicles and their robust penetration in the automotive market. Hybrid vehicle which is actually a hybrid between a conventional engine and electric motor, utilizes both energy sources to start and gear up the vehicle via propulsion from the fuel tank. The use of on-board power units, reduced engine heating, rapid catalyst warm-up, reduced toxic emissions, plug-in hybrids, specific fuel stations, engine mapping, grid modifications and several other engine configurations have been taken into account to make the vehicles more fuel efficient, environment friendly, cost-effective and reliable. This technology is also ...

Abstract

This paper details the extensive review on modern concept of Hybrid Vehicles and their robust penetration in the automotive market. Hybrid vehicle which is actually a hybrid between a conventional engine and electric motor, utilizes both energy sources to start and gear up the vehicle via propulsion from the fuel tank. The use of on-board power units, reduced engine heating, rapid catalyst warm-up, reduced toxic emissions, plug-in hybrids, specific fuel stations, engine mapping, grid modifications and several other engine configurations have been taken into account to make the vehicles more fuel efficient, environment friendly, cost-effective and reliable. This technology is also ...