ZWENCHUA

by Sarah Wu

Tourism is a travel for recreational leisure or business purpose. The world tourism organization (WTO) defines tourists as people travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.

Nowadays, tourism is the biggest industry in the world. Travelling around is not only an effective way for people to ease tension in daily life and work, but also is a direct way explore the wonders of the world and other cultures. The contribution of tourism includes the preservation of cultural heritages and the mutual comprehension between different cultures. Firstly, tourism can alleviate poverty, create and expanse jobs opportunities, which is the key to sustainable development and social harmony. Secondly, it can attract large number of investments, which will increase the financial revenue of local and even national. Lastly, it can promote the GDP, which will upgrade the influence and popularity of a country.

Tourism also has its disadvantages. Firstly, the difference in language, culture and lifestyle often results in conflicts between tourists and local residents. People from various countries and regions often have different attitudes towards the same thing or behavior, thus causing further misunderstanding. Secondly, travelling in a developing country, the tourists from industrialized countries may sense the obvious hostility from local inhabitants. The increase of tourists will directly lead to the rise of prices, which means nothing to the travellers but imposes physical and economic pressure on the local residents. Thirdly, excessive pursuit of economic efficiency and over-exploitation of tourism resources bring pressure on the local environment, more likely to cause the environmental pollution and destroy the ecological balance.

Although tourism has disadvantages, it is very essential to the development of a country. To encourage the development of tourism industry, the government set up a series of duty free shops and put the policy of tax refund into practice. Besides, the government construct some good infrastructures, convenient transportation and efficient telecommunication. Through the continuous efforts, tourism obtain some visible development recently, such as more and more integrated resorts and casinos, budget travels, eco-travels, internet bookings and so on.

Contributed by Sarah Wu

Choosing Beijing instead of Hong Kong for a Senior Managers Meeting.

It is my pleasure to be an event organizer to plan the annual meeting for senior managers for a client in Hong Kong.

Since its return to our motherland,the economic achieved stable and continuous growth,leading to the development of other industries, such as tourism, shopping, entertainment and so on. What is more, the quality of local residents and their standard of living had been promoted. Thus, it attracts many incentive conventions and exhibitions being hosted there.

I partially agree with selecting Hong Kong as the destination, in my opinion, it is more appropriate to choose Beijing as the alternativeincentive travel destination because of its advantageous geographical location, and as the capital city of China, its long-standing history and cultural heritages.  In addition,it has been worldwide known and famous after the 2008 Olympic Games,the sports venues have become attractions for many events organizers. What is important, the Peking international airport has relatively extensive air linkages and large number of luxurious hotels, which makes the meeting participants convenient, accessible and comfortable travel and accommodations.

Overall, I eagerly hope my suggestion can be accepted.

Contributed by Tran An Khanh (Kenny)

The two pie charts represent the changes in annual spending by a particular UK in 1981 and 1991.

In 1981, made up the largest portion in total school spending is teachers’ salaries (around 40%). The second is furniture and equipment (with 15%) and resources (also with 15%). The smallest is insurance, which is only made up of 2% in total school spending in 1981.

Contributed by Wu Zhen Zhen

The table illustrates the information of consumer spending on different items in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey in 2002.

As we know from the table, Turkey which had highest spending on Food/Drinks/Tobacco taken up 32.14% in 2002. Ireland that was the second highest spending on Food/Drinks/Tobacco at about 28.91%, and then Spain and Italy with 18.80% and 16.36%.The least consumer spending on Food/Drinks/Tobacco was in Sweden with 15.77%.In 2002, 9.00% of Italy consumer expenditure was in clothing and Footwear which was the highest. And second highest was Turkey at 6.63%. And then Spain and Ireland at 6.51% and 6.43%. The smallest spending was about 5.40% in Sweden. Yet for Leisure and Education, it took up a small percentage such as Turkey at only about 4.35%.Even lower were other countries spending in Sweden and Italy at 3.22% and 3.20% respectively. Followed by Ireland with 2.21% and only 1.98% of Spain?s consumer expenditure was in Leisure and Education.

Overall we can see clearly that most countries were spending money on Food/Drinks/Tobacco (between 15.77% and 32.14%) and least on Leisure and Education (between 1.98% and 4.35%).

Contributed by Tracy Long after our class discussion:

Undeniably one of the most conspicuous trends in recent years is that the issue as to advantage and disadvantage of export to a country has arisen as a highly debatable issue

There are some advantages of export to a country.Fox example the export can stabilize seasonal market fluctuations When the company produce seasonal product which sell is very low, company can distribute to countries with demand .thus stabilizing overall sales and profits of a product, company enjoys larger market share and earn more profits .as result is also enhances potential corporate expansion, if the company does not export they will produce relatively lesser products. Last but not least export can encourage company to gain information about foreign competition, the company should know the other country?s information to increased competitive and sales .

Disadvantage of export First company has to wait longer for payment, export to overseas the payment and delivery of goods, takes tougher is more complex and the company also need to modify product or packing .For example more languages need to be a added to the packing content ,people from different market .Furthermore exports can exhaust country natural resources this is biggest disadvantage .For example some countries they always develop their own oil coal ,In hundred years they might run out of resources

The country should export thing which the country need such as Singapore only can import consumer product. the raw materials finish product(consumer product) and services are different types of products about services .The Philippines provide domestic helpers to many more developed countries

Export is very important to country export can increase domestic income and stable export can stabilize the economy. If export fluctuates the economy will be fluctuation as well.

Advantages of Export

Export has become more and more important for a country. Apart from advantages, export has its disadvantages too.

Advantages of export include the promoting economic growth, increasing sales and profit and increasing of global marketing share. And the export can enriched the life of the people in other countries. Sometime, export can promote cultural exchange between the countries. The export country can gain new knowledge and experience to help countries better development in future.

At the same time,the export to a country have some disadvantages. First,export can lead to competition among exporting countries.Second,exporting too much of the raw material can cause a country’s shortage in raw material in the future. Besides,if exports fluctuctuates,domestic economy become unstable based on needs.

Different products can exports can export to different country. There are developed country, developing country and undeveloped country respectively. For developing country ,they always export finished products and service, and developed country can acquired much wealth. And developing country can export little raw material and relatively more finished products .

Their earning are less than developed country . The undeveloped countries can export relatively less in variety and volume . They can only export raw material and few cheaper finished products.

2nd version of Disadvantages:

However, different people assume divergent views toward this problem, there are many disadvantages of export. Export will subordinate short-term profits to long-term gains which means you have to have enough money from domestic sales to support a time lag until you make money from export sales. At the same time, export will incur added administrative costs for handling paper-work, communications and other tasks. Besides, it need to obtain special export licenses, government rules and regulations restrict.

Importance of exports:

Export growth is important because of its effect on internal trade and economic stability. Growth of an economy is directly related to export. If exports increase at a faster pace as compared to imports, nothing can stop an economy from being a developed one.

The 2 line graphs compare the number of male and female workers in the 6 sectors in 1975 and 1995.

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There are 200 and 400 female workers in the Retail sector in 1975 and 1995 respectively. The number of female workers doubled. The number of male workers is 400 and 1000 during the same period.

Female workers in the sector has increased more than male workers in terms of percentage.

(S1)

The number of female workers in IT sector increased significantly (tripled) from 200 to 600 from 1975 to 1995. The number of male workers increased slightly from 600 to 800.

(last para)

In conclusion / To summarize / In other words / To sum up , the number of female and male workers increased / decreased significantly / dramatically / slightly. Female / male workers increase/ decreased relatively more than their counterpart.