Describe how some places have used sport and leisure as a catalyst to ‘kick-start’ rebranding. Sport is and has been more recently acknowledged as an excellent way to provide the ‘catalyst’ to a regeneration scheme. It has been used in deprived areas to try spark some form of regeneration - most notably areas that have suffered from a decline in local industry. The idea of using sport and leisure as a catalyst is to showcase large scale international sporting events on a global level to make people more aware of the area and ‘brand’ it. This then triggers a sudden increase in private investment.
The economic activity that will be discussed is tourism. Tourism is a highly complex productive activity. The growth of global tourism has had pronounced social, environmental and economic effects. The economic impacts of tourism have been shown to be positive as it continues to bring a large number of economic benefits, generating wealth and employment. In contrast, however, the environmental impacts of tourism are generally negative because the growth of tourism has placed a huge demand on the biophysical and built environments whereas, the social and economic impacts have been both positive.
The economy of Nigeria is one of the fastest growing in the world, with the International Monetary Fund projecting a growth of 9% in 2008 and 8.3% in 2009. [7][8][9] The IMF further projects a 8% growth in the Nigerian economy in 2011. [10] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Early history 1.2 Colonial era 1.3 Post-independence 1.4 Nigerian-Biafran War 1.5 Military era 1.6
The worldwide network is being served by four regions outside the U.S.: Canada; Asia-Pacific (APAC); Europe, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent, and Africa (EMEA); and Latin America, Caribbean (LAC). Each country offers different features that are design to meet the transportation needs, specific markets and customer service to service each country. FedEx plays a central role in global trade, benefiting the global economy and, importantly, enabling the development of poorer countries. As more countries become involve in the global economy, FedEx is prepared to provide ground services to its new customers. FedEx has supported several trade negotiations, including the World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement, the International Services Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
In this paper I will examine the culture of Morocco and how their Islam religious beliefs differ from Christianity while exploring how a Christian leader can become an effective international leader or manager working in a Moroccan society. Morocco Globalization, the growing integration of economics and societies worldwide, has been one of the most important topics in international business of the past few years (Satterlee, 2009). The advantage of globalization create affiliations among nations that allow multinational corporations to enter a country like Morocco to stimulate the economy and provide many opportunities such as jobs, increase in export and decrease in imports, and it also allow the company to expand their market audience. Morocco is a beautiful country located in North West of Africa, widely open on the Atlantic Ocean from the west, and the Mediterranean Sea from the
From CNN Money, we learn that out of 500 best companies in the world, 166 of them have their headquarters in the United States. On the other hand, China is a powerful state, too. Even though communism is the dominant style, China has managed to export huge amounts of products throughout the world. China has achieved to become the United States’ primary competitor in economic development. It has had a very rapid economic growth in the past few decades.
Their intention is to "take a package of capital, technology, managerial know-how, and/or marketing skills to carry out production or business services abroad" (Todaro: 2003). Their effects are far reaching, affecting the daily lifestyle of the average consumer. Partly because of their size, MNCs tend to dominate the sectors in which they specialize. As a result, their transnational business ventures offer much debate about their impact on developing countries; many arguments have been proposed on this subject alone. This paper will be used to illustrate the opportunities created by MNCs for developing countries.
The objectives for appointing new CMO can be given as: • Enhance the brand and strengthen its position in multiple product categories. • Expand into new categories • Determine the category best suited for Priceline service • Grow the revenues to over $1 billion Problem Analysis Here, the CMO had to come up with strategies to outwit its competitors. Expedia was a leading online travel service. Priceline had direct competition in the “name your own prices” service with Expedia. Expedia provided extensive destination information and strong editorial content with multiple booking options and focused on – flights, hotels, cars, vacations and cruises.
1. Introduction Tourism has considered as the world’s largest and rapid growing industry of modern business world. Today tourism is the most advantageous and up-to-date business all over the world. It has become one of the major international trade categories. International tourism ranks fourth after fuels, chemicals and automotive products in terms of generation of export income.
Currently, Ghana is the second largest producer of gold. The country also produces an enormous amount of cocoa beans. However, people still go to sleep hungry because of crop failure. Over the past five years, Ghana’s economic freedom has increased by 3.6 points. All of the improvements towards the economy of Ghana have helped the country be “free.” After the borders were drawn in Africa, there are currently 100 different ethnic groups home to