Negative News
One-A-Day N°9: Negative News Tony Jolley @ home 25.6.2022 All the BBC News Website Top Stories’ Titles 24/25th June 2022 [The day Roe v Wade was rolled back in the US] A sad day for the US Elation and Despair Seismic Day Ends constitutional right Orders troops to leave No meaning to my life anymore By-election losses not brilliant Pregnant tortoise surprises Deepest shipwreck discovered What happens now? Man loses Not being distracted by sponsors Youngest prisoner who faced execution Video selfies trial Rifts split Fury and questions Rather die than return Luxury resort politics Hole in the sky Now what, pray, does this tell us about ourselves….?...
T1. What is a Project?
Before we can start to consider managing a ‘project’ – we’d better be pretty clear by what we mean by the word project? What sets it apart from words like: idea, plan, system, work, process.…? Why does the nature of projects lead us to think that they need ‘managing’? And in the context of things cultural, inter-cultural and Anglophone-specific, what is their relation to ‘projects’? So your Task 1 is to define what a project actually is / might be. We will work in groups of three initially (to be constituted by the...
Why are states interested in Tourism?
Good question – glad you asked…… well, you were going to, weren’t you? Well, if politicians and industry leaders are being honest, it is not (as the World Tourism Organisation once put it) for ‘spiritual reasons’ i.e. the non-material benefits to the tourist….. rather Tourism is considered to be a means to an end rather than an end in itself: governments want to see things like: new jobs created and existing jobs sustained …. (reducing government unemployment expenditure) rural communities sustained by tourism activity and local expenditure tourism income to local, regional and national services like: heritage, sports, arts, culture and systems like transport (again reducing government expenditures) improved international image [do you get much of an image...
Resources for Macroeconomics and Tourism...
There are any number of good Macroeconomics texts no doubt in just about all the mother tongues spoken on LPHT. Please do not forget these: the basic principles of macroeconomics are very well covered in traditional sources you will find in your library. The same is true of Tourism: there are a wealth of Tourism and Tourism Management textbooks in English and French. ‘For my money’ the three best of the best are the following: Tourism Principles and Practice (2005 3rd Edition) . Cooper, Fletcher et.al. FT Prentice Hall. The Business of Tourism (2006) Holloway,C. FT Prentice Hall The Business of Tourism Management (2006) Beech,J & Chadwick,C. FT Prentice Hall [No, I assure you, I am not...
Exercise 6: Tourism and ‘La Crise’...
Do we still have a crisis? Answers, as they (used to) say on Radio ‘on a postcard’: who knows?! This is how ‘crisis’ looked in the 70s (when I was a little younger than you are now and doing my Bac homework by candle-light three days a week as there was no electricity as the UK government had run out of money!). The hot group to catch in concert was Supertramp, and their album title’s ironic perspective was: ‘Crisis? What Crisis?’. You might not have heard of them, but I bet you’ve heard their song ‘Dreamer’ (U Tube). Christine Lagarde was rather caught uncharacteristically ‘off her guard’ the other day when she walked into the statistic that in...
Exercise 5. Making Tourism Macroeconomic ‘Connections’...
Well, we have talked through some of connections between tourism statistical results and the interaction of variables that may be causing them…. for example: ‘La Crise’ might have been a function of: the lack of regulation of the American / international ‘sub-prime’ market greediness of financial houses lending far more than borrowers could repay the (over?)reaction of the media resulting in a more widespread and deeper sense of loss of confidence than might have strictly been necessary. In turn this lack of confidence and the actual economic downturn changed peoples’ attitudes towards their disposable income and its expenditure….. particularly in terms of Tourism a a good at the ‘luxury’ end of the market. Good managers should make a...
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