Portfolio Assignment 1: The European Tour Operators

As one of the most publicised and well-known companies in the nation Qantas’ reputation can hinge on their sustainability practices. Any slip up for the company will attract media attention which is why it is pivotal that Qantas has adequate sustainability practices in effect. As an international airline, the amount of resources in which Qantas can lead to a significant impact on the environment. There are many areas within the daily routine in which Qantas need to be wary of how the company’s actions are affecting the environment. Some of the main sustainability issues in which Qantas need to focus upon is there carbon emission footprint, this includes practices such as fuel consumption and efficiency and releasing emissions. The safety of

* Impacts of technology e.g. on traditional operational practices for selling travel services, issuing e-tickets, offering dynamic packaging

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and Spacex, once stated “Some people don’t like to change, but you need to embrace the change if the alternative is disaster.” Elon Musk will shape our future travels to be more efficient and safe, with a goal to reduce the world’s amount of fuel consumption. This is an important topic to investigate because of the amount of greenhouse gases that have been emitted into the atmosphere from our ways of travel. The planes, trains, cars, and other forms of transportation contribute to an outrageous percentage of the pollution and are negatively impacting our Earth in ways, such as global warming. Elon Musk has made it his own personal goal to change the ways humans unintentionally treat our planet. Musk’s ideas to reduce

New Frontier Touring is a tour booking agency based in Nashville, TN. They represent artists from the indie-rock, Americana, acoustic roots, folk, and jazz genres. With over 75 artists on their roster, technology is an important aspect of the company and keeping the business running. On a normal day, there are ten booking agents, two contract department workers, and at least two interns there at a time, each one on their own computer using technology.

Today’s on-line travel market is succeeding because the companies are using a more software-centric, online business model termed “E-commerce.” This has become the popular avenue for businesses as it mirrors the ideas of mobility. The sheer amount of data available, coupled with the advanced operating systems and social media platforms, have created new possibilities for E-commerce organizations. The infrastructure of E-commerce has expanded into platforms such as peer-to-peer networking, crowd-sourcing, social websites, and mobile devices and media. E-commerce trends are findings ways to incorporate every aspect of our daily lives into an online package associated with our everyday needs (Fishbein, 2013).

Problem Statement: Porter Airlines is a new company looking to penetrate the business traveler market

In 2012, transportation accounted for 19% of the total global energy consumption, 96% of which was produced by fossil fuels [1, p. 201]. Furthermore, air transport is the most carbon intensive mode of transportation, accounting for approximately 10 times more carbon emissions than road transport and 100 times more than shipping (per tonne km) [2, p. 4].

Also the travelling in modern modes of transports like air palnes and various land transports releases large amount of carbon gases that can result in global temperature rise. And of course the rise in carbon emmision is a major influece from the rise in tourism as many prefer the mode of transport by air. The advancemnet of transporation technology by air has not only hasten travelling time, but as thismode of transport became more common, it became cheaper as well. Many budget airline companies are springing out, making travelling more affordable and more popular. However 12% of the world's carbon emmision is contributed by aviation.

Since the development of commercial of air travel, Airline operations have had negative effects on both people’s health and the health of the environment. Because of this many airports, like many other industries, are coming under great pressure to develop greener and more sustainable business models. In the United States, many companies have changed their practices in order to adhere to government regulations, but lately there are a growing number of companies that have been more proactive in their adoption of greener practices. The Chicago O’Hare airport operated by the Chicago Aviation Department, the CDA, is one such organization that has taken upon itself to try to become one of the industry’s leading sustainable companies. They have

Of the total travel market only 1% was generated from the online travel market, and consumers still depended on customer call centers to confirm payment status. To counteract the risks it is important that Lucky Air create an effective business-consumer-business model that will do the obvious and draw consumers to their site and make an online purchase of airfare. To draw in consumers Lucky Air will need to focus on Web 2.0, which is the unique feature or features of e-commerce and the Internet coming together as applications and social media technologies. Web 2.0 will allow for a better online experience with inter-human connections, consumer interacted blogs and the staff to constantly monitor the site to provide consumer feedback. Web 2.0 is crucial to providing customer relationship management. Promoting reviews from consumers in regards to destinations and airline experience are important so the consumer can feel they are important enough to expose the truth from other consumers even negative remarks. But the single most important part of focusing on e-commerce is the ability to provide a online experience and advanced technology that enables customer self-service without the need for multiple customer call centers. Customers should be able to pay for fares, cancel fares, use a safe payment method that can verify a credit card, check on the status of flights and use rewards programs

Practicing CIA (Covered Interest Arbitrage) by borrowing CAD 96 Million to buy USD on April 1, 2002, and invest the USD for six months. At CAD interest rates of 2.70% for borrowing and 2.55% for depositing, and USD interest rates of 1.85% for borrowing and 1.65% for depositing.

This essay is about sustainable aviation which is going to clarify the meaning of sustainability and arguing that in some cases the idea of sustainability is unachievable and in some cases is achievable. Sustainability is about environmentally friendly, corporate responsibility. Aviation is an increasingly important form of transport, providing very important mode of connections to both passenger and cargos.(Tony2005)aviation is part of sustainable transport but these are all linked together, with most of the companies trying to change them, sustainability’’ has arisen from ecology and the study of ecosystem’’ . Flying got may benefits and also supports the economy and jobs, taking people on holiday to see different people and different cultures . however it also has got lots of problems for those people living around airports and it is a beg and also growing contribution to climate change . it also explains how sustainable aviation has an effect on the environment, the economy an social factors.

This paper will be dynamically examining the tourism industry during the 2000s. It will begin by using the PESTEL framework to analyse the macro environment and determine which factors drive the competitive forces within the industry. Following this, Porter’s Five Forces model will be used to analyse the actual competitive forces at work within the industry and determine the relative importance of these forces.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry

At Kings Travel the success factor of the growth is their friendly and highly professional services to maximise the customer satisfaction. Kings Travels’ staff is highly trained, efficient and knowledgeable in all aspects of travel, tour trade and because they are privately owned they offer impartial advice for customer benefits.