Meanwhile, the council said its new management plan for Gower recognised the significance of tourism and caravan and camp sites.

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Job cuts announced by Sark Estate Management were "no surprise", the chairman of Sark's Tourism Committee has said.

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Harold Goodwin, professor of Responsible Tourism Management at Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK, wrote about his experience in the Cape Town, South Africa township of Khayelitsha, with a tour operator that was well-known in the community.

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Tax rates may be on the rise, at least for hotels, said Bjorn Hanson, dean of the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University.

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In the last year or two he has seen a sharp rise in the use of electronic sentiment monitoring in customer relationship management (CRM) and in travel and tourism TripAdvisor uses Lexalytics to generate its scores.

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At a national level, agreements have been made with the Ministry of Tourism to include climate change aspects, as well as integrated coastal management, in its strategy development.

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According to the Straits Times newspaper, the Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Company has said that the giant metal nest is raking in tens of millions of dollars each year from tourism.

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Realising that they had no experience of tourism or conservation, they approached Wouter van Hoven, a professor of wildlife management at the University of Pretoria, who has been their chief fundraiser and publicist ever since.

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