Travel Essays

Introduction: 1.1 Background Ray Kroc was the founder of McDonald’s when he initiated selling milkshakes machines as a salesman then from this opened up his own small hamburger shop in Southern California in the States, as he thought that many restaurants were not performing to the best of their ability …

Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) allows a firm to identify the percentage of profit derived from the capital that was used to run the business. Therefore, ROCE can be used to assess the profitability of the business in a given year. Studies of the Airbus Group’s annual report and financial …

1.1 BACKGROUND DESCRIPTION Hotel like any other business opens up socio-economic opportunities for both owner and customer An online hotel reservation system is a web based software that gives an easy opportunity for customers to book for all what is suitable for them before they lodge in to a hotel. …

Low cost carriers (LCC), also known as budget/discount airlines, offer generally low fares but eliminate most traditional passenger services. There are five low cost carriers operating in Australia namely Tiger Airways, Jetstar, AirAsia, Virgin Blue and Pacific Blue. The purpose of this report is to conduct an analysis of Tiger …

If you had the possibility of choosing a destination for a free month’s holiday, would you choose a single place or visit different countries? Well, if that would ever occur to me, I would feel very excited and, at first, I wouldn’t know where to go. Both options have advantages …

Brunt Hotels, PLC, owns more than 60 hotels throughout the United Kingdom. They recently acquired a small hotel chain headquartered in France. Brunt’s chief executive decided that half of the new hotels in France would be retained and re-branded as part of the Brunt Hotels Group; the other half will …

Aviation and crisis-management experts say the fate of Malaysia’s flagship carrier will hinge on how it weathers what’s expected to be another sharp drop in bookings after its latest air disaster, when Flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed Thursday in the battle-torn region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. …

India’s annual earnings through Medical Tourism is all set to double to 8000 Crore Rupees [2000 million US dollars] by year 2012 according to a recent study. The main reasons the study claims why medical tourism would flourish in India include much more lower medical costs for various surgical procedures …

New Products and servicesHilton Hotel Corporation won the Best Customer Focus award in November 2005 from theprestigious UK National Business Award. In a speech given by Hilton International SeniorVice President Of Marketing , Mike Ashton said that the reward recognised the newcustomer brand promise to put back a little of …

The hotel model is really a description of care which is disabling, taking over and doing everything for the person rather than promoting independence and being collaborative (working in partnership with the individual to establish the best ways of supporting that person). With the hotel model, a person can become …