Saturday, March 14, 2015

Four fallacies of EU foreign policy

Four fallacies of EU foreign policy

Assignment task/s      to     be completed

Chapter 1: Introduction (200 Words)

1.1  : State the Aims and Objectives of the Blog Report

1.2  : Provide the structure of the Blog Report

Chapter 2: Understanding tourism product and analysing the role of components of the Tourism sector within the broader industry (600 words)

2.1 : Define tourism products and outline their components, key features and provide some examples (300 words)

2.2 : Analyse the role of the key components of the Tourism sector (including aviation, hospitality and intermediaries/Tour operators and Travel Agencies) in the wider Tourism industry (300)

 

Chapter 3: Stakeholder Analysis (1400 Words)

3.1 : Outline the history of the chosen company and how they have developed over the years (300 words)

3.2 : Explain the present state of the organisation and how they are currently operating; you must research and include some statistics about the company in your answer (500 words)

3.3 : Outline the competitors of the chosen organisation and explain how their competition has impacted on the organisation (300 words)

3.4 : Select two or three stakeholders of the chosen company (employees, investors, community, suppliers, consumers, lenders, partnerships, etc.) and outline their expectations from the company (300 words)

 

Chapter 4: Analysing the challenges and opportunities associated with the management of tourism products (600 words)

4.1 : Provide a detailed SWOT analysis of the chosen organisation (including quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction). Note to use a SWOT Table to present your answer (300 words)

4.2 : Explain the sustainable strategies of the chosen company. (300 words)

Chapter 5: Conclusion and Recommendations (200 words)

Provide a brief conclusion with recommendations for the selected company


 

Additional Information required      to support completing the          tasks above

      The assignment tasks involve preparing a blog. You should start the content creation for the blog in the Blog template provided in the Moodle.

      Submission Guidelines:

1.      Prepare your content in the blog template and transfer the content from the Word document to your blog as a “Blog Post”.

2.      Submit the Blog submission template with 3000 words to the Moodle submission link including the screenshot of the blog on the first page


Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Russia’s Return to Africa

Russia’s Return to Africa



In response to both the demands of its historic “Muscovite” political culture and the setbacks in the once-promising relations with the West, Russia finds itself seeking to construct a global system within which its “great power” status is recognized. To this end, the Kremlin can no longer ignore Africa states, not only because of their numbers but because their natural resource wealth complements that held by Russia. While the web of strategic access and other ties that the Russians have been reconstituting and expanding across the continent does not necessarily presage a return to the Cold War era’s often-tragic zero-sum competition, other international actors heavily invested there no longer can ignore Moscow’s resurgent interest.

Russia-Africa trade: Set for a WTO boost? - News - This is Africa

Russia-Africa trade: Set for a WTO boost? - News - This is Africa

Thursday, March 5, 2015

China’s gold strategy

China’s gold strategy



All other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation** are gold-friendly or have increased their gold reserves. So the west having ditched gold for its own paper will now find that gold has a new role as Asia's ultimate money for over 3 billion people, or over 4 billion if you include the South-East Asian and Pacific Rim countries for which the SCO will be the dominant trading partner.