Current Issue : October - December Volume : 2018 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 7 Articles
As the largest branch of service trade, tourism trade has contributed continuously\nto the global economy. Starting from the related departments of tourism\ntrade, this article used the method of Wang et al. (2013) to conduct value-\nadded decomposition of the global input-output table for the period\n2000-2014 and measured the GVC position and GVC participation index between\nChina and the United States for first time. The author just intends to\nconsider the related tourism industries, but it didn�t integrate the related industries\nto a complete tourism industry. The comparative study found that\nChina�s road transportation sector has advantage over the United States�, but\noverall the GVC position and GVC participation index of China tourism characteristic\ndepartments are less than the United States�. For the whole embedment\ndegree of GVC, there is still a gap between China and the United\nStates....
The Banking (Amendment) Act of 2016 enacted by the Kenyan Parliament was envisioned with the intentions of\nstabilizing lending and deposit taking transactions by financial service providers such as banks. However, the emerging\nreality is of a banking industry living through the significant effects of this Banking (Amendment) Act of 2016. The effects\nhave resulted in opposing conversations with those in support of continued implementation of the Act and those calling\nfor its repeal. Some of these effects are positive such as protecting customers from exploitation by greedy financial\ninstitutions. Other effects are negative such as declining capacity for banks to give loans and decrease in the ability of\ncustomers to borrow. In the face of these effects the banking sector has realized the unsustainability of the Act. The\nsector is calling for its repeal with several suggested ways forward such as diversifying funding sources for various\neconomic activities. However, whether one is in support of the Act or calling for its repeal, the reality is that the Kenyan\nbanking space has undergone a serious disruption. This calls for sustainable ways forward in regulation, customer\nprotection and cultivating growth of the banking industry....
This paper gives a general thinking for service branding through the perspective\nof value co-creation orientation. Firstly, the paper reviews the background\nof service branding from service marketing and product brand. And then the\npaper discusses the process of service branding in ways of different models.\nThe perspective of value co-creation orientation comes from S-D logic. Based\non the changing from goods dominant logic to S-D logic, service branding\nprocess has been changed into different parts. We have a further discussion\non this perspective and give some further research directions in order to\nenrich this area....
This paper tests the validity of a barrage of grossly unfair labour practices levelled against\nChinese investments in many African countries including Zimbabwe by extant literature and\nclaims by ordinary citizens in the continent. The researchers noted that these labour malpractices\nwere mainly based on studies in the mining, construction, agriculture, transport,\nclothing and telecommunications sectors and was left wondering how manifest and justifiable they\nwere in Chinese restaurant investments in Zimbabwe whose visibility had highly increased in the\nlast decade. A survey of 9 out of 10 registered Chinese restaurants was undertaken and 54 key\ninformant employees were the research respondents. Researcher administered questionnaires and\ndirect observation were the key data collection methods. This research demonstrated that most of\nthe labour mal-practices levelled against Chinese investments in Zimbabwe were actually\njustifiable in the prevailing operating environment in country. The research suggests that further\nresearch be carried out to determine the overall multiplier effects of these Chinese restaurants to\nthe country....
Strategic planning is a systematic process for designing the future of higher education institutions. The planning process usually focuses on enhancing the quality of teaching, increasing research and scholarly outputs, and fostering community partnerships in academe. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of leaders and faculty members on strategic planning implications at a selected business school. As a case study, the research was conducted at the College of Business Administration in King Saud University (KSU-CBA), Saudi Arabia. The population selected for this study included 449 faculty members. The sample for the research included only 348 faculty members. There were 17 personal interviews conducted and a survey was administered with a sample size of 248 faculty members. Subsequently, the responses were statistically analyzed. The findings that were derived from the analysis of the data collected in this study include: KSU-CBA leaders and faculty members did not significantly differ in their perceptions of the historical evolution of strategic planning process in higher education. KSU-CBA leaders and faculty members perceived that strategic planning helps in designing the future of their school and respondents agreed on the potential use of strategic planning in higher education, and both leaders and faculty members perceived that the current strategic planning of KSU-CBA was as successful as possible; however, the full implementation of the plan would benefit the institution in sustaining its identity, image, and reputation....
Voluntourism�or volunteer tourism is a new dimension of tourism that implies\nthat tourists offer their services or affords to change some aspect of society\nfor a better place to live and receive value from their tourism experience.\nThe objective of this paper is to analyse the demand of volunteer tourism in a\ndeveloping country case study in the Northeast of Thailand. This study is a\nquantitative study and data were collected from surveying volunteer tourists.\nThe results found that there were four factors that affect the demand for volunteer\ntourism including motivation, attitude, expectation and need. The statistical\nsignificances of the goodness of fit indices are Chi-Square = 5.32, df =\n2, p-value 0.06978, RMSEA = 0.069....
Ecotourism and environmental balance is a new phenomenon aimed to research, study and\nmeditate in nature, flora and fauna and the provision of human comfort. Ecotourism is the\nonly way to maximize the economic, environmental and social benefits of tourism.\nThe main problem is represented in the difficulty of balancing the preservation of\neco-tourism sites with the process of attracting tourists to eco-tourism sites.\nA number of hypotheses have been developed, the most important of which are: There is no\nstatistically significant negative impact of tourist on tourist sites.\nThe study concluded a number of results and the most important of these results is that the\ntourist has a negative impact on eco-tourism sites, represented by tourist's cutting trees, and\ndumping waste and dirt in streets which is an uncivilized act and harmful to the environment.\nThe study has also shown that tourists influence the eco-tourism sites since eco-tourism\nrequires an environmental awareness, and the tourist should be aware that the protection of\ntouristic sites is mandatory for everyone. The tourist's awareness has a great role in\npreserving the environment, so the educated tourist is necessary to preserve the eco-tourism\nsites.\nThe study has a set of recommendations, the most important of these recommendations:\n To increase the awareness of tourists about the importance of the environment and\nmaintaining it by using leaflets that explain the importance of the environment for\ntourism,\n To intensify the penalties and legal procedures against the attacks on eco-tourism\nsites, and to modify laws and regulations in order to promote touristic services....
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