This is my Ignite presentation in Professional Communication and Presentation class. I think Americans need to travel more and experience the world. In this presentation you will learn why.
A travel agency helps arrange transportation, accommodations, tours, and trips for travelers. It makes arrangements for people who want to travel. A travel agency has several departments including marketing, sales, advertising, research and development, public relations, finance, accounting, international tourism, domestic travel, and documentation to help plan trips and deal with foreign exchange.
Heather is arranging a business trip for her boss, Mr. Burns, to attend an awards ceremony in New York. She must gather travel information, book flights and accommodation, provide documentation, and reimburse any expenses. An itinerary is created to outline the trip details. Feedback after the trip will help evaluate the business travel arrangements and plan future trips.
There has been a global increase in tourism over the last 60 years due to factors like increased disposable income, more paid holidays, and cheaper travel. Popular destinations include cities, beaches, and mountain areas for their culture, recreation, and scenery. Tourism is important for many economies, but can negatively impact the environment if not managed properly. Ecotourism is an alternative that involves small-scale tourism to benefit local environments and communities in a sustainable way.
Travelling - A Learning Experience Far Away From HomeSilvia Tancou
Travelling enhances our learning experiences by placing us outside of our familiar environment, stimulating all our senses and pushing our limits. We get to live the learning content.
The document discusses several organizations related to the tourism industry:
- The Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) regulates India's travel industry and represents travel agents.
- The Association of Domestic Tour Operators of India (ADTOI) promotes domestic tourism in India.
- The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) is the largest travel trade association worldwide and advocates for the travel industry and public.
It also includes sections about itinerary planning, the importance of travel insurance, and factors to consider when costing out a tour package.
This document discusses different types of tourism, including mass tourism, visiting friends and relatives (VFR), cultural tourism, religious tourism, business tourism, and health tourism (which includes wellness and medical tourism). Mass tourism involves large groups traveling together and is often the cheapest option. VFR involves visiting friends and family. Cultural tourism explores local culture, traditions, and heritage. Religious tourism involves visiting pilgrimage sites. Business tourism includes travel for meetings, conferences, and exhibitions. Health tourism encompasses travel for wellness, spa treatments, or medical procedures.
Travel and tourism is India's largest service industry. It provides various types of tourism like heritage, cultural, medical, and more. The industry aims to promote tourism, improve existing tourism products, and generate employment. It discusses the concepts of tourism, the tourism industry, government initiatives to promote tourism, and internal and external factors that affect the tourism business environment in India. Some key points covered include the SWOT analysis of the tourism industry in India, different types of tourism like medical, pilgrimage, adventure, wildlife, eco, and cultural tourism. It also discusses the scope and benefits of tourism in India.
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This document discusses various types of special tourism services and products that have emerged to meet the evolving needs of travelers. It identifies eco, cultural, rural, adventure, health, new age, and educational tourism as specialized segments that have grown in the leisure market. In the business travel market, it focuses on the MICE industry (meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions), and the roles of meeting planners, convention centers, event managers, and convention and visitor bureaus in organizing specialized events.
This document discusses tourism marketing in India. It notes that tourism is a large industry in India, contributing over 6% to GDP. India receives over 5 million foreign tourists and 562 million domestic tourists annually. The tourism industry generated $100 billion in 2008, and is expected to grow to $275.5 billion by 2018. As tourism involves experiences that cannot be sampled, marketing relies on trust, relationships, and delivering value. Tourism is an intangible, inseparable service that varies depending on customers and locations. Marketing strategies include developing diverse tour packages, promotion campaigns, managing places and people, streamlining processes, and ensuring good physical customer experiences. The scope of tourism marketing could be expanded by promoting undiscovered locations.
This document provides an overview of potential destinations for a group travel itinerary, including China, France, Egypt, the United States, and returning to Malaysia. Key stops mentioned include Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong in China; Paris and Lyon in France; Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt; New York City, Hawaii, and Orlando in the United States. The document emphasizes the cultural attractions, activities, and sights to see in each location. It concludes by thanking those who helped make the project a success.
Tourism is a complex multi-sector industry that involves the movement and accommodation of people traveling to destinations outside their home environment. It provides economic benefits through job creation and foreign exchange earnings, but can also impose social and environmental costs on host communities. The tourism industry comprises several operating sectors including transportation, accommodation, food services, attractions, and tour operators that work together to meet the needs of various types of visitors engaging in tourism for purposes like business, pleasure, and visiting friends and relatives.
International tourism is a major source of income for many countries. Some of the top countries for tourism include France, the United States, China, Spain, and Italy. These countries attract tens of millions of international visitors annually due to major attractions like Paris, New York City, the Great Wall of China, Barcelona, and Rome. Popular attractions include historic and cultural sites, natural landscapes, amusement parks, and cities with diverse activities. Tourism provides significant economic benefits through employment and foreign income.
Adventure travelis a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic and possibly hostile areas. Adventure tourism is rapidly growing in popularity, as tourists seek different kinds of vacations. According to the U.S. based Adventure Travel Trade Association, adventure travel may be any tourist activity, including two of the following three components: a physical activity, a cultural exchange or interaction and engagement with nature.
The document discusses operating an outdoor and adventure tour guiding business, covering topics such as eco-tourism, fishing/boating tours, and river rafting tours. It outlines the typical duties of outdoor tour guides which include instructing clients, preparing meals, setting up camp, and respecting the natural environment. Adventure tourism is growing due to demand for active travel experiences where clients can experience nature and culture.
This document discusses tourism and the tourism industry in India. It defines tourism as travel for recreational, leisure, family or business purposes of limited duration. It notes that tourists are people traveling outside their usual environment for less than a year for various purposes. The document outlines different types of tourism like domestic, inbound, and outbound tourism. It also discusses India's strengths and weaknesses in the tourism industry, the types of tourism present in India, initiatives taken by the Indian government to promote tourism, and foreign tourist arrivals statistics in India from 2010-2015.
The document discusses two main categories of tourism: mass tourism and alternative tourism. Mass tourism involves large groups traveling to specialized locations with fixed programs and packages. Alternative tourism is individually planned and focuses on experiencing local cultures first-hand in secluded areas during non-peak times by arranging one's own travel. The document provides examples of different types of tourism like pleasure, business, nature, cultural, social, recreation, active, sports, religious, health, adventure, wilderness, and ecotourism.
This document discusses subject-verb agreement and provides examples. It defines the subject as the person, place, thing or idea doing or being something in a sentence. A subject can be singular, plural, or uncountable. It defines the verb as the word describing the action. Verbs can be singular or plural. The key rule is that subjects and verbs must agree in number - a singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb.
The document discusses the four language skills - listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It provides an overview of each skill: Listening involves processing sounds into words and messages. Speaking requires using parts of the body to create sounds and communicate. Reading is the process of deriving meaning from written symbols. Writing involves using symbols to communicate thoughts and ideas in a readable form. The four skills are interrelated and involve both receptive and productive abilities in both oral and written modes.
Here are some common expressions for inviting, accepting, and refusing invitations based on the picture:
Inviting:
- I'd like to invite you to come to my office anniversary party this Saturday.
- Would you like to join me for dinner this Friday?
Accepting:
- Yes, I'd love to. What time should I be there?
- That sounds great. I'm free then.
Refusing:
- I'm afraid I have other plans that night.
- Unfortunately I have a prior commitment. Thank you for the invitation though.
- I'd love to but I have a work deadline to meet. Maybe next time?
The key aspects are using polite
The document provides tips for effectively learning English. It recommends taking an active approach to learning, such as writing journals in English, reading books and guessing meanings of unfamiliar words, rewriting class notes, watching English television and movies, and keeping a vocabulary notebook. It also stresses the importance of speaking English regularly with friends and maintaining a positive mindset to continue improving one's English skills over time.
The document is a collection of images and text fragments discussing music and collaboration. It explores different music genres like rock and country, instruments like fiddles and violins, and working together to create something greater than the individual parts. The non-linear style makes it difficult to determine a clear overall topic, but it seems focused on the power of music to bring people together and help them see beyond surface level differences.
The document contains a collection of disconnected phrases and links to Flickr photos. It touches on themes of having a long day, pressure and emptiness, the need for change and being open-minded. It encourages the reader to do what they want, sing, dance, work how and when they like to get more done, relax, and focus on what matters most. It also discusses making more money if you are enthusiastic as your customers will be too, boosting the economy, clearing your mind, and going after what you want. The overall message is about living freely and prioritizing enjoyment.
The document is a collection of phrases and stock images with social justice themes advocating for involvement in social and political issues. Some of the phrases encourage attending events, preserving history, getting involved, taking action, ensuring fairness, helping spread awareness, and speaking up against profiling. The overall message is about the importance of civic participation.
The document discusses the cognitive benefits of dancing. It claims that dancing can make you smarter and reduce cognitive decline risks by 76%. Dancing stimulates the brain and can lead to swift decision making, learning new motions, and improved cognitive reserve from practicing patterns. It also suggests dancing can help you meet new people and stay active for hours.
The document appears to be a collection of hyperlinks to Flickr photos related to video games. There are over 30 hyperlinks listed without any other context or explanation provided. The hyperlinks reference a variety of video game related topics including specific games like Fez, general topics like competition in gaming, and perspectives like supporting indie games.
This collection of Flickr images relates to the influence of music and media on children and encourages finding positive alternatives and guidance to help kids grow up in a healthy way. The photos promote awareness of how certain types of music and messages can impact youths' paths in life and the importance of providing inspiration and healthier habits for their future.
The document is a collection of links to Flickr photos with brief text captions. It discusses finding common ground in conversations by listening more than telling. It encourages not going into discussions blindly and looking at photos related to kids, Obama, and what something is in response to hearing a sound before engaging in dialogue.
Ziering Cody Fullsail PC The Possibilities of Food Replacement: Soylentcziering
The document discusses several issues related to the growing global population and food supply. It notes that the world's population is rising while one billion people currently go hungry each year. Food is becoming more expensive to produce and distribute, while current agricultural practices are heavily reliant on fossil fuels, pesticides, and GMOs. The document also explores potential alternative food sources like Soylent, and argues that social interaction is as important as basic nutrition. Overall, it encourages keeping an open mind to different possibilities for addressing these complex issues.
This visual resume outlines key details about Christopher William Scott. He was born in 1988 in Long Beach, California. He has worked in entertainment industries such as a DJ and in the army. He now attends Full Sail University to study Music Production with the goal of molding his craft into something amazing to inspire others. He can be contacted at Torridity@fullsail.edu.
The document discusses the dangers and consequences of drunk driving. It notes that 16,000 people die from drunk driving each year, including 181 children. Drunk driving not only kills but also changes families' lives forever through the guilt of taking a life. There are legal consequences like jail time, losing one's license, and financial costs. Everyone must work to prevent drunk driving by knowing their limits, taking a cab, attending mandatory classes, meeting victims, and designating a sober driver.
The document encourages reducing TV time by half in order to improve one's life. It notes that Americans spend too much time watching TV, which is unhealthy and cuts into time for other activities. Reducing TV time can allow people to pursue healthier hobbies and spend more quality time with family and friends.
The document is a collection of quotes and photos that describe an individual's personal and professional journey. It references how their interests in art, gaming, and modeling began from a young age. It also highlights the importance of believing in oneself, continuously learning and improving, and drawing inspiration from family, instructors, and peers over a career spanning seventeen years. The overall message is of persevering toward making dreams a reality and sharing one's creations with others.
This document provides reasons why being organized is important and beneficial. It argues that being organized can help avoid confusion, allow you to remember future events and priorities, and regain clarity. Being disorganized can lead to negative effects from multi-tasking and being a "time rebel." With organization, you can live a more productive and less stressful life despite busy lifestyles. The document encourages the reader that they can become more organized.
This document appears to be a collection of random phrases and links to Flickr photos. It does not have a clear purpose or main point and jumps between unrelated topics. The phrases include various sayings and references to fighting, knowledge, and responsibility.
This document introduces Kat, who was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. She has a family and originally wanted to be a teacher, but did not feel it was a good fit, so she went to school for music production instead. Kat ended up with a career in fashion and merchandising. She has worked her way up at Urban Outfitters, being promoted quickly to Women's Accessories Team Leader. Kat is motivated, thinks outside the box, and was just offered a big new position.
The document is a collection of links to photos on Flickr that depict various aspects of military life and the importance of community support for the military. The photos show military families, deployment experiences, caring for sick soldiers, serving one's country within their community, creating lasting relationships, helping in difficult situations, and reducing stress for deployed soldiers and their families. Community support helps create happier families and soldiers during deployments.
Christian Border grew up in South Florida and attended Full Sail University to pursue his dream of making music. He came from a musical family, playing instruments from a young age. He was particularly drawn to music production and knew Full Sail could help take his skills to the next level. At Full Sail, he started a band with his brother and they built connections, resources and production skills together using Logic and Pro Tools. Their goal is to open their own studio after graduating.
This document is a biography of an individual who is passionate about music. It summarizes that they were born and raised in North Carolina, where they were fueled by music in high school through music theory, writing songs, and playing in local bands. They studied business and music industry studies in college but left to pursue music, working as a delivery driver and eventually managing their own store. They then moved to Florida to study music business at Full Sail University to pursue their dreams of a career in music. The document outlines their qualifications and experience in areas like music performances, booking, sales, and promotion, as well as their ambitions which include gaining experience at music festivals, recording a solo EP, and constantly seeking new opportunities.
Ban Court Storming Now by Nolan DodsonNolan Dodson
This document discusses the dangers of fans storming the court or field after sporting events. It provides several photos and links showing instances where fan disruptions led to chaos, injuries, and fights. The key points are that court or field rushing can ruin the purity of the game, disrupt play, and pose serious safety risks that can result in injuries to players or other fans. Several arguments are made that rushing the playing surface should be banned to avoid these issues and keep excitement contained to the stands.
The document discusses an individual who aims to use music to bring people together and create awareness. They discovered their purpose through writing music and overcoming their disability. They are tech savvy, motivated to accelerate, and digitally diverse. They have experience managing restaurants, bartending, and music venues. Currently, they are furthering their education to innovate through community and creative activism. Their goal is to learn from others and give back to the community through awareness and service.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/07/intels-approach-to-operationalizing-ai-in-the-manufacturing-sector-a-presentation-from-intel/
Tara Thimmanaik, AI Systems and Solutions Architect at Intel, presents the “Intel’s Approach to Operationalizing AI in the Manufacturing Sector,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
AI at the edge is powering a revolution in industrial IoT, from real-time processing and analytics that drive greater efficiency and learning to predictive maintenance. Intel is focused on developing tools and assets to help domain experts operationalize AI-based solutions in their fields of expertise.
In this talk, Thimmanaik explains how Intel’s software platforms simplify labor-intensive data upload, labeling, training, model optimization and retraining tasks. She shows how domain experts can quickly build vision models for a wide range of processes—detecting defective parts on a production line, reducing downtime on the factory floor, automating inventory management and other digitization and automation projects. And she introduces Intel-provided edge computing assets that empower faster localized insights and decisions, improving labor productivity through easy-to-use AI tools that democratize AI.
Transcript: Details of description part II: Describing images in practice - T...BookNet Canada
This presentation explores the practical application of image description techniques. Familiar guidelines will be demonstrated in practice, and descriptions will be developed “live”! If you have learned a lot about the theory of image description techniques but want to feel more confident putting them into practice, this is the presentation for you. There will be useful, actionable information for everyone, whether you are working with authors, colleagues, alone, or leveraging AI as a collaborator.
Link to presentation recording and slides: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/details-of-description-part-ii-describing-images-in-practice/
Presented by BookNet Canada on June 25, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
In this follow-up session on knowledge and prompt engineering, we will explore structured prompting, chain of thought prompting, iterative prompting, prompt optimization, emotional language prompts, and the inclusion of user signals and industry-specific data to enhance LLM performance.
Join EIS Founder & CEO Seth Earley and special guest Nick Usborne, Copywriter, Trainer, and Speaker, as they delve into these methodologies to improve AI-driven knowledge processes for employees and customers alike.
Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing problems through your microservices and application landscapes on Kubernetes? Then this is the session for you, where we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of languages, challenges, and opportunities for getting started with telemetry data.
The project is called openTelemetry, but before diving into the specifics, we’ll start with de-mystifying key concepts and terms such as observability, telemetry, instrumentation, cardinality, percentile to lay a foundation. After understanding the nuts and bolts of observability and distributed traces, we’ll explore the openTelemetry community; its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), repositories, and how to become not only an end-user, but possibly a contributor.We will wrap up with an overview of the components in this project, such as the Collector, the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP), its APIs, and its SDKs.
Attendees will leave with an understanding of key observability concepts, become grounded in distributed tracing terminology, be aware of the components of openTelemetry, and know how to take their first steps to an open-source contribution!
Key Takeaways: Open source, vendor neutral instrumentation is an exciting new reality as the industry standardizes on openTelemetry for observability. OpenTelemetry is on a mission to enable effective observability by making high-quality, portable telemetry ubiquitous. The world of observability and monitoring today has a steep learning curve and in order to achieve ubiquity, the project would benefit from growing our contributor community.
Performance Budgets for the Real World by Tammy EvertsScyllaDB
Performance budgets have been around for more than ten years. Over those years, we’ve learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t, and what we need to improve. In this session, Tammy revisits old assumptions about performance budgets and offers some new best practices. Topics include:
• Understanding performance budgets vs. performance goals
• Aligning budgets with user experience
• Pros and cons of Core Web Vitals
• How to stay on top of your budgets to fight regressions
Sustainability requires ingenuity and stewardship. Did you know Pigging Solutions pigging systems help you achieve your sustainable manufacturing goals AND provide rapid return on investment.
How? Our systems recover over 99% of product in transfer piping. Recovering trapped product from transfer lines that would otherwise become flush-waste, means you can increase batch yields and eliminate flush waste. From raw materials to finished product, if you can pump it, we can pig it.
What Not to Document and Why_ (North Bay Python 2024)Margaret Fero
We’re hopefully all on board with writing documentation for our projects. However, especially with the rise of supply-chain attacks, there are some aspects of our projects that we really shouldn’t document, and should instead remediate as vulnerabilities. If we do document these aspects of a project, it may help someone compromise the project itself or our users. In this talk, you will learn why some aspects of documentation may help attackers more than users, how to recognize those aspects in your own projects, and what to do when you encounter such an issue.
These are slides as presented at North Bay Python 2024, with one minor modification to add the URL of a tweet screenshotted in the presentation.
Data Protection in a Connected World: Sovereignty and Cyber Securityanupriti
Delve into the critical intersection of data sovereignty and cyber security in this presentation. Explore unconventional cyber threat vectors and strategies to safeguard data integrity and sovereignty in an increasingly interconnected world. Gain insights into emerging threats and proactive defense measures essential for modern digital ecosystems.
Paradigm Shifts in User Modeling: A Journey from Historical Foundations to Em...Erasmo Purificato
Slide of the tutorial entitled "Paradigm Shifts in User Modeling: A Journey from Historical Foundations to Emerging Trends" held at UMAP'24: 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (July 1, 2024 | Cagliari, Italy)
Implementations of Fused Deposition Modeling in real worldEmerging Tech
The presentation showcases the diverse real-world applications of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) across multiple industries:
1. **Manufacturing**: FDM is utilized in manufacturing for rapid prototyping, creating custom tools and fixtures, and producing functional end-use parts. Companies leverage its cost-effectiveness and flexibility to streamline production processes.
2. **Medical**: In the medical field, FDM is used to create patient-specific anatomical models, surgical guides, and prosthetics. Its ability to produce precise and biocompatible parts supports advancements in personalized healthcare solutions.
3. **Education**: FDM plays a crucial role in education by enabling students to learn about design and engineering through hands-on 3D printing projects. It promotes innovation and practical skill development in STEM disciplines.
4. **Science**: Researchers use FDM to prototype equipment for scientific experiments, build custom laboratory tools, and create models for visualization and testing purposes. It facilitates rapid iteration and customization in scientific endeavors.
5. **Automotive**: Automotive manufacturers employ FDM for prototyping vehicle components, tooling for assembly lines, and customized parts. It speeds up the design validation process and enhances efficiency in automotive engineering.
6. **Consumer Electronics**: FDM is utilized in consumer electronics for designing and prototyping product enclosures, casings, and internal components. It enables rapid iteration and customization to meet evolving consumer demands.
7. **Robotics**: Robotics engineers leverage FDM to prototype robot parts, create lightweight and durable components, and customize robot designs for specific applications. It supports innovation and optimization in robotic systems.
8. **Aerospace**: In aerospace, FDM is used to manufacture lightweight parts, complex geometries, and prototypes of aircraft components. It contributes to cost reduction, faster production cycles, and weight savings in aerospace engineering.
9. **Architecture**: Architects utilize FDM for creating detailed architectural models, prototypes of building components, and intricate designs. It aids in visualizing concepts, testing structural integrity, and communicating design ideas effectively.
Each industry example demonstrates how FDM enhances innovation, accelerates product development, and addresses specific challenges through advanced manufacturing capabilities.
Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major technical breakthrough and enabler in multimedia systems research and of industrial networked multimedia services certainly was the HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) technique. This resulted in the standardization of MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) which, together with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), is widely used for multimedia delivery in today’s networks. Existing challenges in multimedia systems research deal with the trade-off between (i) the ever-increasing content complexity, (ii) various requirements with respect to time (most importantly, latency), and (iii) quality of experience (QoE). Optimizing towards one aspect usually negatively impacts at least one of the other two aspects if not both. This situation sets the stage for our research work in the ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory (Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services; https://athena.itec.aau.at/), jointly funded by public sources and industry. In this talk, we will present selected novel approaches and research results of the first year of the ATHENA CD Lab’s operation. We will highlight HAS-related research on (i) multimedia content provisioning (machine learning for video encoding); (ii) multimedia content delivery (support of edge processing and virtualized network functions for video networking); (iii) multimedia content consumption and end-to-end aspects (player-triggered segment retransmissions to improve video playout quality); and (iv) novel QoE investigations (adaptive point cloud streaming). We will also put the work into the context of international multimedia systems research.
Quantum Communications Q&A with Gemini LLM. These are based on Shannon's Noisy channel Theorem and offers how the classical theory applies to the quantum world.
How to Avoid Learning the Linux-Kernel Memory ModelScyllaDB
The Linux-kernel memory model (LKMM) is a powerful tool for developing highly concurrent Linux-kernel code, but it also has a steep learning curve. Wouldn't it be great to get most of LKMM's benefits without the learning curve?
This talk will describe how to do exactly that by using the standard Linux-kernel APIs (locking, reference counting, RCU) along with a simple rules of thumb, thus gaining most of LKMM's power with less learning. And the full LKMM is always there when you need it!
How RPA Help in the Transportation and Logistics Industry.pptxSynapseIndia
Revolutionize your transportation processes with our cutting-edge RPA software. Automate repetitive tasks, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency in the logistics sector with our advanced solutions.
AI_dev Europe 2024 - From OpenAI to Opensource AIRaphaël Semeteys
Navigating Between Commercial Ownership and Collaborative Openness
This presentation explores the evolution of generative AI, highlighting the trajectories of various models such as GPT-4, and examining the dynamics between commercial interests and the ethics of open collaboration. We offer an in-depth analysis of the levels of openness of different language models, assessing various components and aspects, and exploring how the (de)centralization of computing power and technology could shape the future of AI research and development. Additionally, we explore concrete examples like LLaMA and its descendants, as well as other open and collaborative projects, which illustrate the diversity and creativity in the field, while navigating the complex waters of intellectual property and licensing.