During my month in Sri Lanka for TDM fieldwork, we lived in Central Galle, far from the beach and The Fort center. Due to that my group took a tuk tuk every day, twice a day. We came to make good friends with our neighbors, who were also our tuk tuk drivers. This routine made…
Effective Interventions for Micro & Small Enterprises in Seminyak, Bali
In the third and last destination in Phase 2 of TDM, we were lucky enough to go to Bali. For this final destination, we looked at the preferable future for Micro & Small Enterprises (MSEs) and developed effective interventions for achieving this future. Through over 30 face to face interviews and particpant observation, our group…
The Probable Future of Micro & Small Enterprises in Galle, Sri Lanka
The second destination in Phase 2 of the NHTV TDM Masters was the southern coast of Sri Lanka. For my group, we focused on micro & small enterprises (MSEs) in the Galle Fort area, which is divided into further study regions in the map below. In order to accomplish understanding the probable future, we conducted…
Weekend Visit to Komodo Island
This weekend trip to Komodo Island made my third-grade dreams of seeing these dinosaurs come true and proved to be well worth the wait. Staying at Flores During my fieldwork in Bali, I got the chance to go to Flores and take a day trip to Komodo Island. Getting to Flores was easy enough, direct…
Melbourne
The second phase of getting your masters in tourism destination management at NHTV involves doing field research in three countries. Destination one for 2018: Melbourne, Australia. In ‘The Most Livable City in the World”, we were split into groups to look at the future possibilities of tourism in this exciting city. My group focused on…
Improving Destination Marketing: The Case of Thailand
Below is a summary of the Destination Contextual Marketing project on making Thailand a more competitive destination. How can Thailand through destination marketing create and sustain a competitive advantage? Based off of Dwyer’s and Kim’s model of Destination Competitiveness our group created this model to make Thailand more competitive through marketing and a…
Fast Food & Traveling
During Phase 1 of my Tourism Destination Management Masters in the Netherlands, our class conducted research in Amsterdam to understand how food plays a role in tourists emotions. For my research I focused on the role of fast food: below is an excerpt from the final product of this research. Introduction When people travel they…
Game Plan
The Game Plan for Module 1 group project, written by all group members: Chelsea, Heiley, Sophie & Timoti. Creating a game plan before beginning a major group project is an important step to staying organized and maintaining group harmony. The game plan consists of the preject, creative, and production stages. The group needs to…
For the Love of Beer: New England’s Beer Trail
No matter what time of year it is in New England there is always a reason to drink beer. In the Fall the Patriots are playing football, in the Winter the Celtics are playing basketball and the Bruins are playing hockey, and in Spring and Summer, the Red Sox are playing baseball. All of these…
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