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L3 Online Business Resources … in English...

Your task (in pairs) was to identify 10 good online Business Resources (in English) and to make a list of the top FIVE of these, and review and present them to the group. Here I will try to build up for you a definitive list from the materials you cite: www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/index.html US site. Basic and detailed. SBA www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner Business Link British government links all free business resources BBC www.bbc.co.uk   Business Area. Reliable. Clear.  High volume. Free Allbusiness.com.   Small business start up orientated.   Simple tips for business.   Directory of terms / glossary / dictionary. e-anglais.com/resources/glossary A couple I prepared earlier: http://www.entrepreneur.com/ If you have only looked at the term ‘Business Resources’ then you are likely to have missed things...

posted on: 21 Sep 2010 | author: tjolley

L3 Business Environment Defined

Here are your thoughts on the question I posed: Q. What IS the ‘Business Environment’? A. The Business Environment...

posted on: 21 Sep 2010 | author: tjolley

Theme 1: T & Tech

So, what does innovation have to do with  Tourism? The harnessing of steam power The telephone  (not mobile) The internal combustion engine The jet engine The pill and the condom (préservatif) The Internet Modern cell-phones For each one I will want to see:- What brought about the invention: what were the connections with other things happening at the time?  What might have been the impetus for the invention? How was the invention adopted? What were the most significant impacts of the adoption of the invention by industry and society? What Tourism activities did it enable and how did tourism grow and develop as a result? STEAM Brought about by: Adoption General impacts / consequences Tourism development results TELEPHONY...

posted on: 16 Sep 2010 | author: tjolley

LPHT MacroEc Ex3: French State Expenditure on Tourism...

So the answer to the BIG Q, please: Just how much does the French state spend DIRECTLY on  Tourism per annum? 0 – 50m € 50 – 100m € 100 – 250m € 250 – 500m € 500m – 750m € 750 – 1000m...

posted on: 15 Sep 2010 | author: tjolley

L3 Intro to Business: the Why

Here is where I will put your thoughts on this subject……… WHY? No idea! Potentially interesting x 3 possible use as a teacher as a reserve in case I don’t become a teacher basic business knowledge x3 professionalism to feel confident improve vocabulary x3 WHAT sort of Business Career? public sector  plus civil service further business qualifications? Don’t know…. but keeping opportunities open Commercial sector Tourism – advertising / marketing Management teaching positively NOT teaching Banking WHAT Knowledge? New vocab organisation of companies strategies WHAT Skills? communication creativity confidence analysis evaluation persuasion / be convincing / tenacious...

posted on: 14 Sep 2010 | author: tjolley

LPHT Tourism Defs 2010

The results of your first task of the year with me.   We are looking to define Tourism first and foremost, so that we can then go on to define Tourism Macroeconomics.   Here we will place our brainstormed thoughts and ideas and try to produce from them a comprehensive definition. . I am NOT looking for a textbook definition – we don’t need one: we have all BEEN Tourists, we are all experienced in that department, so we MUST surely be able to explain the ‘thing’ we were enjoying!   I am also not interested in official definitions for the moment largely because they tend to be creative for reasons of administrative convenience rather than to realistically describe what is...

posted on: 7 Sep 2010 | author: tjolley