Essays about: "tourism industry and employment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words tourism industry and employment.

1. 1. The polarized attitudes of offshore wind - The social acceptance of planned offshore wind farm Västvind among Öckerö municipality residents

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)

   Author : Milla Marzelius; [2023]
   Keywords : Offshore wind energy; Social acceptance; Place attachment; Västvind; Öckerö; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Climate change, the energy crisis of 2022-2023, and estimations of future electricity demands have stressed the necessity for a rapid transition of the energy system. Offshore wind energy plays an important role in this transition, and is expected to expand considerably on a global level, in the EU and in Sweden. READ MORE

3. 2. CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN UGANDA : A CASE STUDY OF FORT PORTAL TOURISM CITY

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turism

   Author : Rosemary Banura; [2023]
   Keywords : Sustainable Tourism; Sustainable tourism development strategies; tourism stakeholders; and tourism city;

   Abstract : The study focused on finding out the challenges of implementing sustainable tourism development strategies and policies in Uganda, with a view of generating information on knowledge of the sustainable development challenges among stakeholders, and how best the challenges of their implementation can be addressed to achieve sustainability in the tourism sector. It is motivated by the fact that, despite the Ugandan government's efforts to build tourism as a major economic earner of the country, the sector still yields uncertain fluctuating and fewer returns. READ MORE

4. 3. Destination identity and projected online image in rural Southern Africa : A case study of Nyanga, Zimbabwe

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Shamiso Mahohoma; [2022]
   Keywords : Projected destination image; destination identity; destination image formation; rural destinations;

   Abstract : The value of tourism as a driver of economic and social development in Africa cannot be overstated. Tourism is regarded as a source of foreign currency, employment creation and more importantly, a means of achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). READ MORE

5. 4. “Everything that needs to make the thing a whole” : aestheticization, exclusion and the political economy of Long Bay’s tourism landscape

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Anwen Martha Davis; [2020]
   Keywords : Jamaica; Tourism; Marxist political economy; Landscape; Exclusion; Aesthetics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Although a large volume of work has been conducted regarding tourism industries across the world, the dominant analysis in the geographies of tourism tends to draw upon post-modern discourse analysis and representational theories. This has resulted in calls to develop more materialist analyses of tourism landscapes. READ MORE

6. 5. The Beach Belongs to Us! Local perceptions of the high dollar tourism industry and coastal development in Barbados from an Environmental Justice perspective

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Caroline Harding; [2019]
   Keywords : Sustainability Science; Environmental Justice; Coastal Development; Local Communities; Perceptions; Participation; Climate Change; Tourism; Barbados; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Since the rise of the tourism industry in Barbados in the 1960s a vast emphasis has been placed on expanding high dollar luxury tourism that is targeted towards specific social and economic classes in order to maintain foreign exchange. The majority of this high dollar tourism development has been predominately concentrated on the diminishing western coastlines of Barbados. READ MORE