Travel Essays

Case 2 Key Issues: The key issue for the Accra Beach Hotel lies amongst the hotel’s tendency to serve several customer segments. The hotel is booked for the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), and also tries to cater to frequent vacationers at the same time. These segments behave in different …

It must be acknowledged that Ifugao State University, Alfonso Lista Campus has some of the best higher education institutions in the Region with well equipped workshops and laboratories and professionally staffed with a variety of scholarly professionals. These institutions turn out a large number of associates, graduates and post graduate …

1. History The story of McDonald’s was started in 1940, as a food restaurant by two brothers’ named Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bemardino, California in the USA. The name of restaurant was McDonald’s Hamburgers, by mid-1950s their restaurant revenue had reached $350 000. Raymond Kroc, the distributor for …

This report analyses Virgin Australia (ASX code VAH) and identifies its potential business and audit risks that will need to be addressed in the 2014 audit. It is presented to the Virgin Australia Audit Committee as part of the 2014 Audit planning process. The first part of this report provides …

There are many great reasons to learn English and the advantages that come from speaking English when you travel are many, varied and valuable. In so many parts of the world, English is the ‘international language’ — although it may not be the language that is native to, or most …

During Ctrip’s early years, the Chinese travel market consisted of small, independent agencies scattered across the country. Many were state-owned and offered poor service to their customers, such as travel packages that consisted of overnight flights, mandatory shopping outings, and low-quality cuisine. According to Ctrip’s CEO Min Fan, “few people …

Rosewood Hotels and Resorts is a business that has 12 establishments worldwide. Until 2004, the company has run an individual branding strategy; but recent events, such as the adoption of a new President and CEO, have the company considering a corporate branding strategy. Rosewood seems to have hit a roadblock …

Sex tourism is the term used for travel with the intent to engage in sexual activity. The United Nations World Tourism Association defines sex tourism in their Global Code of Ethics for Tourism as “trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using its structures …

1. Provide some examples in business or daily life in which a controlled process is erroneously adjusted and an out-of-control process is ignored. What implications do these errors have? My example of a controlled process that is erroneously adjusted is the thermostat. My house is two-story. The A/C unit upstairs …

Industry Analysis As Walsh (2014) stated that the sharing economy refers to the system of direct exchange of goods and services among individuals without an intermediary directly facilitating every transaction. Nielson (2014) said that in this type of economy people make advantage of the unused capacity of possessions they owned …