Travel Essays

Early Beginnings of Travel The Babylonians (Sumerians) – The creation of money and trade – Trade was developed around 400 B.C. – Babylonians were also credited with thefounders of travel business. Early Beginnings of Travel The Egyptians – First cruises were organized and conducted from Egypt. • The first journey for Tourism …

My work will be based on Flight Centre travel agent and I will be talking about their products and services, how they work, the importance of the technology for the company, how they advertise their services and about the company’s competitors. Flight Centre Travel Group is an Australian based international …

In order to learn more about the conservation of natural resources, a field trip was held on 30th October, 2013. It took place in Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG). The field trip enables us to experience how to implement the conservation of natural resources, such as water and farming …

On October 11, 2014 along with 23 other classmates, we took a field trip to downtown Los Angeles. The purpose of this field trip was to observe and learn about the physical and the built environment, its interrelationship to each other, and to draw our own conclusions from everything that …

How would you feel when you are on top of a mountain, and all about you is thick fog and beautiful trees full of lovely flowers, overlooking a magnificent scenery of the valleys below, filled with rich green trees? Ah! Even imagining that feeling is precisely wonderful; utterly tremendous! Then …

1. Introduction to Pulau Ubin Pulau Ubin derives its literal translation from the Malay language for Granite Island. Harvesting of granites through explosion was an active activity of the past, thus deriving to its meaning. Abandoned quarries have then been converted to large water bodies due to the collection of …

As a business, my deli store has great potential to succeed but also has great potential to fail. This will all depend on what decisions I make as the owner and how external factors play out towards my side. In regards to external social forces/trends, there are several forces that …

This case was written by Chua Chei Hwee, Research Associate; Peter Williamson, Professor of Asian Business and International Management; and Arnoud De Meyer, Akzo Nobel Fellow in Strategic Management and Professor of Technology Management & Asian Business at INSEAD. It is intended to be used as a basis for class …

Virgin Galactic (VG), which is a part of the Virgin Group, is a leading company and pioneer in Suborbital Travel Industry. By offering the lowest price in the market and making the dreams of space travelling come closer, VG attracts the attention from the general public. With the successful launch …

The largest strength Las Vegas tourism has is its brand recognition of its famous phrase, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”. Other phrases such as “Your Vegas is showing” are in the works. Vegas also has an enormous bank of existing visitors- over 38.9 million a year. These visitors …