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Introduction Sustainably developed tourism has become one of the primary concerns of each country as more people are willing to go to places with better ecology, infrastructure and attractions. Generally, the tourism industry demands that all the spheres of human activities interact in order to attract new visitors to the area. One of such destinations is Sri Lanka, which is a beautiful tropical island in the Indian Ocean and has been quite a popular destination for tourists from all over the world due to its breath-taking location and uniqueness. It has an enormous amount of culture and heritage-based resources. Moreover, the state is enlisted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The country is rich in natural and cultural resources. It took Sri Lanka 18 years to recognise a need for developing tourism as a driver of its economy. However, recent statistics show that more people prefer other countries for recreation. The purpose of this group project is to investigate the economic factors that can influence the development of Sri Lanka as a tourist attraction site. Key Stages of Development The direction of sustainable tourism has become the goal of each tourism-oriented country. The following are the features of tourism sustainability:  1. Optimal usage of environmental resources, biodiversity is preserved and ecosystems function together.  2. Socio-cultural authenticity is respected, cultural heritage is conserved and well treated and cross-cultural borders are honoured.  3. Economic benefits are equally distributed between all the stakeholders, the level of employment is stable, and opportunities for income growth are available.  4. Poverty and social alienation are eliminated from society (Rasoolimanesh and Jaafar, 2016). To plan the stages of tourism development, it would be logical to stick to Gantt’s chart, which will help to establish the objectives and deadlines.  1. Any project has as a first step setting objectives, both short and long-term. The main aim of this program is to promote sustainable tourism in Sri Lanka. Achieving these objectives demands understanding the context of the country, that is, its location, economic, ecological and social factors influencing the state (Higgins-Desbiolles, 2018). Sri Lanka can focus on preserving heritage sites to develop new and sustain existing tourism. One of the UNESCO heritage sites in Sri Lanka is the Sacred City of Kandy, which maintains a tooth of a Buddha. This site must be highly protected to preserve its sacredness to be visited by tourists.  2. The next step is to identify the stakeholders and develop working relations with them. Among the stakeholders can be indigenous people, visitors, different communities, cultural heritage agencies and other groups. Developing partnerships with trustworthy agents can have a positive impact on travellers who came to the island. Sri Lanka is inhabited by the indigenous tribe Vedda who is the earliest citizen of the island. This tribe may have a vested interest in developing tourism sustainability as t
When talking about online-interactive platforms, people tend to start by thinking that those platforms are harmful in such a way as wasting time with meaningless things. But do they realize how much they rely on online communications? “95% of young American adults (18-24 years old) own a cell phone and 97% of these cell owners use text messaging: sending and receiving an average of 109.5 text messages per day. Overall, 73% of adult cell owners use the text messaging function on their phones. 92% of teens go online daily – including 24% who go online almost constantly” (Abatayo 3). As these trends increase continuously, people know how fast technology dominates people’s daily lives. Over the last twenty years, technology, especially online communication, has revolutionized globalization — dissemination of knowledge, movement of people, and international transactions — which has also transitioned the way people normally do things from a manual mode to a computer-based mode. Because of that, the demand for using online communication is strongly growing day by day, leading to the advancement of a community throughout the world. However, the peak of how online communication was required to function optimally was during the global health crisis of the past two years due to social distancing and government recommendations. With the growing prevalence of online channels, schools can use video conferencing to maintain lines of communication while distance learning or employees can work remotely with greater efficiency. Yet, this pandemic only raises parts of the advantages of substituting the traditional mode of communication with the computer-mediated mode. Online communication is considered more helpful than harmful because it facilitates connecting people quickly in different places, makes people’s lives more accessible, and promotes things that would generally be impossible to publish to ordinary people. During the early 1990s, nobody knew what the Internet was or how it could affect human beings. However, as people entered the mid-1990s, they witnessed the Internet having a tremendous impact on communication, including the rise of instantaneous communication services such as electronic mail, telephone calls, and video calls. And with the introduction of the first modern smartphone b
The paper seeks to justify a Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) as an alternative product for Vodafone Group Plc. The company is multinational with headquarters in London. It is a leading telecommunications company based on 2011 annual revenue and subscriptions (439 million). Vodafone offers information technology and mobile phone services to its customers in over sixty-five countries. In addition, Vodafone Group has 45 per cent shares in Verizon wireless. Verizon wireless is the leading mobile telecommunications company in the US. Vodafone has been chosen to implement the MMT product because of its wide customer base and its ability to set a side enough resources to implement, test, launch and market the product. Its wider customer base is important because many people across the world will be able to enjoy the product and its benefits (Morawczynski, 2008). MMT is an electronic product that helps the consumer to electronically send and receive money on a mobile phone. Consumers will register their simcards with Vodafone using their national IDs or pass ports. After registration, an MMT menu will be up dated on the customer’s phone. Registered customers will be able to send and receive money, pay bills, loans, and utilities and also buy air time. Customers can also access their commercial bank accounts if they register their mobile numbers with their banks. To withdraw money from a mobile account, the customer approaches an agent and initiates the transaction through an agent code. The customer and the agent then receive a message that a specific amount of money has been withdrawn. The agent then gives the customer the specified amount of money and the transaction is completed. To deposit the money in the mobile account, the customer approaches the agent with the amount of money they want to deposit, the agent deposits the money and both receive a confirmation message (Hughes & Lonie, 2007). MMT is a cheap, safe and quick way of sending and receiving money. MMT saves the customer the trouble of having to make long queues in the bank to deposit or withdraw money. Customers are also able to make instant payments for services and goods by using the MMT. The company on the other hand benefits by acquiring and retaining customers, extending the range of its products and improve relationship with consumers. To successfully launch the product, Vodafone will hire competent IT specialists to update the main server to accommodate MMT. The company will also replace existing simcards with those that have MMT menu. Finally the company will recruit and register agents all over the country. Vodafone should target supermarkets, banks and other places where people mainly handle cash. MMT is a pretty new idea and very little secondary sources of information are available. However, the company will benefit in a big way by visiting the libraries of affiliated companies like Safaricom . Their websites would provide very important information. Other sources of credible information about feasibility of mobile banking include the websites of Equity Bank Limited. The library and archive of Equity bank are also rich with information. Information on MMT c
Introduction This project will focus on a training seminar for sexual harassment for Walmart Corporation. Walmart is a large retail market and has more than 2.2 million associates across the globe ( Walmart , 2021). The target audience of this training seminar will be store managers. I have selected this training and this audience because sexual harassment is a severe problem for retail workers. Studies show that more than 25% of sexual harassment charges are filed in industries with large service workers (Gold, 2020). The store managers are responsible to their staff members, both men, and women, to ensure staff members are correctly trained on sexual harassment to prevent and react quickly to any cases. Training Review Walmart responds to current social and environmental responsibility trends, as any large company must operate in such industries, as its reputation, public, and government approval depend on it. The company fights racism within its organization and maintains a policy of equality for its customers (Walmart, 2021). In addition, the company’s global responsibility includes the following principles: opportunity, culture, diversity, sustainability, equity, and community (Walmart, 2021). It means that the company values ​​the individual highly enough and will not tolerate any encroachment on generally accepted human rights. Consequently, training on learning and dealing with sexual harassment is entirely in line with the company’s goals and will be highly beneficial for employees involved in company policy. This type of harassment is also a modern problem that has been talked about relatively recently. The silence of the victims was the main reason for the impunity of perpetrators who exceeded their authority in personal space (Siuta & Bergman, 2019). Since this problem has not been raised for a long time, there is only minimal experience dealing with sexual harassment. Moreover, another advantage of perpetrators is that victims are often unaware of such an attitude towards them, and even if they feel some discomfort, they do not know how to deal with it and whom to contact in such cases. Therefore, educating about this issue aligns with Walmart’s current goals and values and can help employees avoid embarrassing situations, learn how to prevent sexual harassment, and know how to deal with it. A hallmark of sexual harassment, especially in the workplace, is its causes. Any sexual violence, as a rule, is associated precisely with sexual d
Background Flying the Confederate flag over the Alabama State Capitol raised little controversy when first implemented by Governor George Wallace in 1960. The issue became even more acute in the mid-1970s when Representative Alvin Holmes advocated for flag replacement, calling its current positioning “inappropriate” (Vocino, 2000, p. 1). Governor Wallace mostly ignored the issue but ordered to rearrange the flags at “an unspecified earlier time” (Vocino, 2000, p. 2). During the 1970s and 1980s, the Deep South state of Georgia implemented policies that promoted equal rights, such as desegregation in public schools, emerging as a hub for economic activity in the Southeast region. Alabama did not contribute to those race-friendly actions significantly at the time, thereby perpetuating its image as “socially and economically backwards” (Vocino, 2000, p. 2). The newly elected Republican governor Guy Hunt refused to address the demands of an Afro-American Tuskegee legislator Tom Reed to bring the Confederate flag down, declaring it a point of pride for the Southern people. The latter prompted an adverse reaction from Reed, who tried to remove the flag with the help of twelve other Afro-American legislators, which resulted in their public arrest. Eighty percent of white voters in the poll following the event favored the flag, while most blacks opposed it. The small movement to eliminate the flag gained traction, its headcount rising into hundreds. The issue concerned industry leaders; they blamed it for Alabama’s bad reputation in the market. Issues  1. Should the Confederate flag be hung alongside
Introduction: Life-Cycle Assessment as the Means of Maintaining Sustainability The concept of the Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is rather useful in the evaluation of a company’s performance since it helps point out the problems in the use of the available resources (Kounina et al., 2013). Furthermore, the framework helps determine whether the product created by the organization lives up to the current quality standards. Additionally, it points to the ways of increasing its shelf life. Therefore, it must be viewed as an essential part of the company assessment framework. Seeing that LCA outlines different stages of the product life cycle, it can be used as the means of reviewing the stages involving the acquisition of raw materials, the use of company’s resources, the overall efficacy of the supply chain and its management strategy, etc. In other words, the framework serves as the foil for promoting a sustainable use of resources. The focus on sustainability that the LCA helps acquire is the primary reason why globally renowned organizations such as the Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) remain competitive in the target market. Furthermore, the company maintains a consistently high product quality level and keeping the focus on customer relationship. Life Cycle Assessment at SABIC: Improving Customer Relationship through Quality Management SABIC has been operating in the diversified manufacturing area for over 40 years, which is a comparatively short amount of time. According to the official statement of the organization, the LCA principles are part and parcel of its system of product quality management ( SABIC worldwide , 2016). Furthermore, the organization representatives emphasize that the LCA tools are used to maintain sustainability at the required level so that the amount of waste produced in the process could be reduced to its minimum. Therefore, SABIC can be viewed as a stellar example of incorporating the LCA tools into its framework so that the sustainability levels could be increased. More importantly, the company even managed to use the tool in the way that it had not been initially intended for, i.e., enhancing customer relationship. Resources Acquisition As stressed above, SABIC uses recycling as one of the means of managing its resources. Therefore, one of the strategies used by the firm to obtain the necessary raw materials for the chemicals that it produces can be viewed as not only admissible but also exemplary. In contrast to other organizations operating in the industry and using only new materials to create the target products, SABIC promotes a sensible approach to the process. Particularly, the company points out that a thoughtless consumption of the available materials will inevitably lead to an environmental crisis (Cabeza, Rincón, Vilariño, Pérez, & Castell, 2014). Material Processing SABIC uses not only recycled material as the essential resource for the production process but also bio-based and eco-FR resin ( SABIC’S Xenoy IQ* resin helps canon electronics meet global customer demand for eco-responsible products with new scanner housing , 2012). As a result, the level of waste is reduced signifi
Abstract These two interviews talk about two person child one and elderly one each one talk about his childhood, life, ambitions in future, beautiful and bad memories. Then there is comparison between them. Last Sunday at 10:00 I conducted an interview with two people. one of them is 10 years old and the other one is 55 years old. My interview with them was very nice. I asked them about their childhood, their beautiful memories, and the memories that were not so beautiful. and their dreams for their life. Child I will start with the young child I sat and played with him a little where I then began to ask him questions that would allow me to begin with him an interview. I asked him about his life and with whom he lives. His answer was that he lives with a small family that includes a mother and a father and a small sister. He loves his family and his family loves him. In concern to his hobbies, he said that he likes swimming, football/soccer and he likes to watch television programs that include cartoons, but he doesn’t like to study much. He loves acting a lot and he hopes to become an actor in the future. I tried to persuade him that studying is very important for his life, but I was not able to let him understand this. He answered me and said everyone is free to decide what he wants to like. While I was playing with him I asked him about his fond memories. It was a trip to Paris with his small family. He liked Paris a lot and the people of Paris are very nice. He loved the beaches there because he loves to swim. He also remembered a surprise that the teachers and his friends prepared for him in school, in relation to his birthday. He received a gift from them and a gift from his mom in the new year. He went with his friends to the clubs and gardens. I asked about his fathers work and if he would like to grow up
According to Heise (1998, p. 262), Violence against women is any incidence of gender-based violence that ends up in, or is likely to end up in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women. This includes threats, coercion or unwarranted deprivations of freedom, whether occurring in private life or public. While the incidence of this kind of violence is to a large extent global, it is more prevalent in some households as compared to others. An analysis of the various reasons for the prevalence of domestic violence was carried out and the findings reported below are varied as the manifestations of the phenomenon. Culture and norms by and large undergo changes with time. However, some aspects of traditions are retained even with passage of time. One of these aspects is the position of the man in the home (Pourreza, Batebi, & Moussavi, 2004, p. 34). Since time immemorial, society has granted the man dominion over his wife and inflexible gender roles have seen masculinity being directly associated with power and authority. The same traditions have ‘legitimized’ the use of violence as a way of solving differences of opinion. Women that would like to challenge the authority granted to the man are seen as wayward and in marriage are vulnerable to domestic violence. As is in most cases, going into marriage the man is conventionally seen to assume ownership of the woman and this automatically guarantees him control over her whole being including her sexuality. In some extreme cultures, errant women particularly those who involve in adultery are sentenced to death by cruel methods like stoning while the man goes scot free. If a woman in such a case is allowed to live, she is supposed to take in random acts of violence meted against her by relatives without complaining on account of the shame that she has subjected the family to. The socioeconomic status defin
Although sport and religion might seem to have very little in common, they have been joint historically. Apart from being built on a rigid set of values, both sport and religion require focus, discipline, and compliance. In addition, the nature of sport often has religious roots, historically being a part of a particular religious tradition (Bain-Selbo & Sapp, 2016). Therefore, although having seemingly nothing in common at first glance, sport and religion have turned out to be interconnected. The pursuit of a specific goal, be it the spiritual enlightenment or the triumph of winning a competition, both sport and religion offer their followers the experience of personal progress. The described similarity might seem quite random, yet the introduction into the history of several sport types will show that they used to be an extension of religion, namely, a particular religious tradition or a part of a certain religious ceremony (Trothen, 2019). Finally, just as the culmination of a religious performance of a particular tradition, sport provides an emotional reward for every participant. Some of the most prominent members of a team may receive public recognition. Thus, sport and religion rub shoulders in a range of areas despite the seeming lack of connection between them. However, the fact that some people refuse to view sport as a type of religion is also understandable. Unlike religion, the sport may not necessarily provide the gateway to spiritual growth and, instead, is mostly linked to physical prowess. Therefore, although there are some overlaps between the philosophy of sport and the pone of religion, the two are quite far apart from each other in terms of their context and historical; context.
What are the main ideas/arguments put forth by Mark Juergensmeyer in his Terror in the mind of god? How does the author support his claims? The author is trying to the argument as to why the frequency of acts of terrorism has been on the rise in recent years. In this case, 22 airliners have been bombed in the last decade (Juergensmeyer 36). The writer suggests that there might be a loosening of social controls that have been responsible for such acts of violence. The authors’ main idea is that there must be a reason as to why religion and violence have reemerged in recent years (Juergensmeyer 35). This can be explained by the fact that there have been various attacks that can be termed as exaggerated violence (Hoffman 17). For instance, the attack on the Pentagon and African embassies is just but an example. In a broad perspective, the author is trying to argue that most of these attacks are symbolic because of the nature in which they are carried out. For instance, the World Trade Center attack is a dramatic illustration of what the terrorists wanted to achieve (Juergensmeyer 31). There is an argument that one single death can be used to portray out the force of terrorism. In this case, the slaughtering of Ostro was meant to send out a message to different people (Juergensmeyer 12). Terrorists have always ensured that they target places that have a lot of people. A perfect example is the World Trade Center and the Tel Aviv shopping centers (Juergensmeyer 47). What is the historical/social/economic setting with which the author is concerned? The author is mostly concerned with the frequency of religious terrorism that has been witnessed in recent years. It is because most of these attacks have come up as dramatic displays (Juergensmeyer 41). The bombing of the Air India Jumbo was done far away from home, but the county felt that it had been targeted. A historical link can be explained with such terrorist acts based on the World Trade center (Juergensmeyer 25). In this case, there was an attack in 1993 and 2001. It should be known that most of these attacks are constructed events (Juergensmeyer 24). This means that they are done over some time and should therefore be a major concern. A