Travel Essays Samples That Help You Write Better, Faster & with Gusto

Introduction

The hospitality industry is one of the big industries in most countries. The hospitality industry in Oxford city in the United Kingdom involves hotel operations, motels, resorts, guesthouses, picnic, and recreation. In the United Kingdom, the hospitality industry is the primary source of foreign exchange. Tourism, on the other hand, involves the traveling activities for leisure by the locals and foreigners. To develop the tourism and the hospitality industry conditions such as good infrastructure, commuter facilities, water and accommodation with well-furnished rooms and entertainment have to be available. Historical sites such as rivers, hills and lakes should also be Continue reading...

Introduction

Strategic planning is an essential process that enables organizations to plan their operations in such a way that that will ease in achieving the set strategic goals and objectives. It involves evaluating the current position of the organization’s performance as well as formulating and implementing new strategies and techniques that would improve the current situation. Strategic planning is influenced by the company’s vision and mission statement as they help the strategists understand the value and direction of the company while the objectives are essential in understanding where the company wants to be. Core competencies and core brand Continue reading...

The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) of the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) has long established its intent to ease transportation within California through the use of high-speed railways to help ease major state traffic corridors and provide rapid ways for transporting people and goods to different places within the state, as in the case of people travelling between the major conurbations of San Francisco in northern California and Los Angeles in southern California, among many others (“2015 Governor’s Budget Summary,” 2015). To enable the CHSRA to construct high-speed railways within California, Proposition 1A, or the “Safe, Continue reading...

Abstract

The threat of terrorism is one that cannot be underestimated. It poses the single largest concern for security in our country now. Terrorism though is not only a United States concern, but also a worldwide problem. The growing incidences and changing face of this threat continue to pose a unique problem. This has necessitated changing responses, all aimed at evolving to combat this threat. However, before an attempt is made to look at these responses, we must first understand what terrorism is and its origin (O'Kane, 2007).The word terror is derived from the Latin word or phrase,” terrere” Continue reading...

A significant change in the world in recent history is the millennial becoming the future leader. The generation that was born between 1982 and early 2000’s are defined as millennial, and they are over 1.8 billion globally out of seven billion populations worldwide. The number is larger than any other generation. A study from Oracle shows the millennial as consumers having high power of consumption. Their annual spending is expected to reach $2.45 trillion in 2015 and $3.39 trillion by 2018. The travel spending by this generation rose 20% since from 2012. Majority of the hotels, travel agencies, Continue reading...

Tourism industry includes holidays that are usually meant for the tourists. In the creation of holiday tourists are the main actors because they are the ones who are affected directly. A package holiday entails a number of activities that are also stipulated by the laws of the land in each and every state. It is a tour arranged and well organized by a travel agent, and it includes activities such as transportation, food, and lodging are provided at a given specified price. Tour operators use different contracting methods which are made specifically to serve their customers.
They include; rack Continue reading...

It is Always Better to Remain Flexible in Choosing HR Approach,

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1. Comparison between two models that attempt to link HRM in organisations to the overall strategy of that organisation.
This study chooses High-Performance Work System (HPWS) and Opportunity Creation and Exploitation (OCE)to compare and contrast, where OCE belongs to the category of life-cycle model and HPWS belongs to the category of strategic configurations, while both attempt to link HRM in organizations to their overall strategies.

Brief Description of HPWS

HPWS is a particular type of HRM system that adopts an employee-centric approach to increase employee involvement and organizational commitment. It emanated from a synthesis of Tavistock Socio-Technical Schools, and Continue reading...

PESTLE Analysis:

A pestle analysis will be carried out on Marshall Island in order to determine the country’s political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors.

Political:

Marshall Island has had a steady government since it gained its independence in 1979.
Democracy
Government supports trade and tourism
Excellent labor laws
The islands have been able to create and establish diplomatic relations with over 70 countries.
Legal
It also has relaxed visa laws with visitors from Palau and The United States being allowed to enter without a visa.
Visitors from countries such as Canada, Australia, and Norway just to mention a few Continue reading...

In a time of economic crisis taking its strength in the world, leading countries its impact on a tourism industry is inevitable. People start saving money expecting the worsening of economic situation thus decreasing their spending on tourist activities. Increasing prices also have negative influence on the development of tourism.
According to Kapiki (2012, p. 20) global economic crisis that started in 2007 had badly affected tourism industry. Its effect on purchasing power, loss of market confidence and withdrawal of investment funds led to tourism industry crisis. But in the following years situation changed and tourist activities showed slight Continue reading...

Visiting of new places from day to day, from one country to another seems to be a wonderful holiday. But it is better to discover more precisely, and this dream may become the real job or personal career building. Many people feel the attachment to the workspace that compresses them. Thus, so-called travelling entrepreneurs become significantly popular. This article aims to prove how to be “digital nomad” and to make sense in own career. According to Meistrich (2015), “There’s a growing community of “digital nomads” who live a location-independent lifestyle. We’re software developers, designers, writers, journalists, engineers Continue reading...

Introduction

Priceline.com is a company that was founded in 1997 and specializing in assisting its customers to obtain discounts for travel and hotel related purchases. The company over the years has grown to achieve a strategic competitive position in the market. The market in which priceline.com operates is very competitive. The market draws competition from traditional and online sellers of the services that the company offers. Even with competition, the company has managed to compete favorably. This paper seeks to discuss the market in which the company operates, the marketing strategy put in place and the impact marketing strategies have Continue reading...

In order to determine whether a leader is making good decisions, Vroom and Jago suggests these three criteria: 1) the quality or rationality of the decision; 2) the acceptance or commitment on the part of subordinates to execute the decision effectively; and 3) the amount of time required to make the decision. In order to achieve a quality and rational decision, knowledge and experience is crucial, which suggests that a leader should have adequate knowledge and skills to make sound decisions. But beside the intellectual and skill aspect of leadership, it is also important that leaders should develop a Continue reading...

During last several decades, tourism sustainability has been actively discussed by the researchers, governments and business people working in this industry around the world. The discussion regarding this phenomenon has become extremely important now, as the impact of mass tourism upon the popular places for visiting is increasing every year. The aspect that is suffering most of all is, of course, the environment; many species of flora and fauna are reducing in quantity or even disappearing, the atmosphere and water reservoirs are getting polluted.
Sustainable tourism is the way of visiting a destination as a tourist making a positive Continue reading...

Managing Culture Diversity

Introduction 3
Finding and Analysis 4
Culture Shock 6
Workforce diversity 10
Recruitment and training of the culturally diverse workforce 11
Conclusion 12

References 13

Introduction
As the process of globalization is constantly going forward, businesses often face culture diversity issues. Even in case the offered product or service is perfect from the point of view of its quality, poor knowledge of cultural peculiarities of the country where the company is working may influence itsperformance and revenues in a negative way. Therefore, more and more organizations emphasize the development of culture diversity management.
Norms of culture play a significant role in Continue reading...

Introduction

Social media is a platform that hosts networks of people online. Social media was the result of Web 2.0, an online platform that allows users to create and share content in the World Wide Web (WWW). Hence, social media may be defined as a network of applications or platforms through which individuals create and share content with one another (Code, 39). Social media stems from different platforms – blogs and microblogs, social networking platforms, feedback or review sites, and forums and discussion boards among others (Zarrela, 3) Examples of social media include online applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, MySpace, Continue reading...

Aviation History

It is nice to know we have multiple ways of transportation when it comes to traveling. Either by train, boat, car, bus, or airplane we know there is a captain in charge and responsible of every passenger’s safety. When traveling by airplane before take-off, passengers always hear an announcement similar to this, “Hello, this is your captain speaking.” How many of those captains’ voices making that announcement have belonged to a woman? Women make up approximately 5% of the 53,000 members in the Air Line Pilots Association. This figure represents pilots serving at regional and major airlines Continue reading...

Essentially, Foursquare is a social city guide with the ability to recommend you places to visit, based on your activity, the activity of your friends and other users of the service. This application is available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. According to Cuddy (2010), Developers focused on two basic keys: check-in and relevant advisor for travelers. This great talk concerns not only travelers, but the others who appreciate good places. This decision turned out erroneous and the new philosophy of the Foursquare Company is to compete with services like Yelp that provides information about new places to visit. Therefore, Continue reading...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, commonly known as NASA, was started in 1958, partly in response to the Soviet Union’s aeronautic achievements (NASA, 2014). Since then, NASA has worked to achieve advancements in aerospace travel, technology, and scientific research. In 1969, NASA facilitated the first space mission to the moon. NASA first launched its reusable space shuttle in 1981, and the shuttle went on 130 successful exploration and scientific missions until it was retired in 2011. In 2000, Russia and the United States established a permanent space station that is used by 15 different nations (NASA, 2014).
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1) There are many reasons why Marriott International is globalizing, all of which have to do with their primary mission statement to improve their business and profit margins. As Marriott is a hotel management company, they understand the need to improve their business through increasing their customer base; by globalizing, they have access to locals within other foreign countries, or from visitors traveling to those countries. Sourcing efficiency is also a contributing factor in terms of workforce, as Marriott has the ability to franchise its efforts out to local workers and managers who can run the hotels from their Continue reading...

Question 1

When analyzing the blood droplet or bloodstain, the presence of scallops, spatter, tails or spine usually assist the analyst to identify the path that the droplet was travelling in at impact. Unless the impact of the droplet was at 90o, the axis that is associated with the travel direction of the droplet tends to be longer due to droplets skimming action on the target. For example, at an impact of 90o, smaller scallops tend to appear around the stain’s entire periphery. When the impact is 70o, larger scallops tend to be more concentrated on one side of this Continue reading...