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Climate change is expected to bring about severe changes to the world’s ecosystems and to challenge mobility patterns on all geographical levels. For tourism these changes have worrying implications. This study deals with the link between tourism and climate change on the municipal level in Sweden. Viewing tourism and climate change as an issue for risk governance, the risk governance practices at
The objective of this research thesis was to enrich customer value theories with a place-related concept, using a case study of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. In conjunction with this, 2 research questions were created, namely, (i) In what ways do park visitors ascribe meaning of place?, and (ii) how can meaning of place contribute to the customer value conceptualization? Theories for review were
This master thesis aims at deepening the understanding of actors interacting with competitors from the same business field within the tourism sector. Special attention is paid to small and medium sized enterprises. In order to increase the knowledge of the phenomenon the German network forum anders reisen consisting of small and medium sized tour operators has been used as the case to conduct empi
This project studies cultural representation in indigenous tourism. Indigenous theme and indigenous control are two important factors in indigenous tourism, and an indigenous museum controlled by indigenous people is a representative place for indigenous tourism. Therefore, this project focuses on a Swedish Sami museum. The aim of this project is to investigate different senses of authenticity in
Agritourism practices have been proposed to be one of the economical tools to complement the declining traditional practices in the rural areas. Farms have started to apply the practices of agritourism in order to strengthen the business. Previous research has argued that agritourism creates a beneficial position for farm, as well as for the whole community, by creating job opportunities and attra
Sammanfattning Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur kreativa idéer och förslag från bussförare tas om hand inom företaget. Kreativitet är ett begrepp som blivit alltmer centralt i arbetslivet och mycket forskning visar på vikten utrymme för kreativa idéer på arbetsplatser. En stor del av forskningen har dock koncentrerats på företag som på olika sätt har kreativitet som en nyckelkomponent. Här
Historical novels as well as biographies often have a rethorical approach. People are accused. and. defended. This paper discusses the argumentative aspects of Cleopatra – a Life, written by the American Stacy Schiff. Using the analytical method in Vägar genom texten (Roads Through the Text) in which Lennart Hellspong and Per Ledin look into texts from the points of view of language, contents and
Solens bestrålning mot jorden är den avgörande faktorn för att solceller ska fungera. Det har visat sig att instrålningen i Sverige skiljer sig väldigt lite från bestrålningen mot Tyskland och centrala Europa. På grund av detta visar det sig att solceller är lika effektiva i Sverige som i Tyskland. Vid jämförelse mellan samma hushåll i de båda länderna visar det sig att skillnaden i producerad el
Problem definition: SPAGO Imaging AB is developing a new contrast agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In approximately 5 years, the product will be launched on the market. The company is therefore about to look for investors to fund the development and growth. To gain investors interest, a clearly defined market for this sort of contrast agent is required. Purpose: The purpose of this thes
Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to help the company with their strategic business development and positioning. The purpose is fulfilled by analysing the following areas; business environment, the company, competitors and customers. Issues: The company and its business environment have gone through big changes during the company’s existence. With big internal changes, such as shutdown of own
Prodatec is a Mexican company manufacturing office furniture and closets. As the competiveness increases there are higher demands on better quality. The company wishes to compete by heading towards a Lean Manufacturing system. The first step is to implement 5S as a natural corner stone in the production. There is also a wish to be ISO 9000 certified in the future. During autumn 2008 the autst hor
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to develop a simulation model that represents the S-train network. The model will then be analysed in order to improve the regularity. We will then present a locally optimized proposal on the placement of the buffer time for every train line. Delimitation: This report intends only to analyse a ”normal day” during rush hour. We will ignore unexpected course of
Coordinated inventory control is a concept within inventory management where decisions are based on stock and demand situations throughout a whole system of interconnected warehouses and inventories, and where control parameters are simultaneously determined and set at all installations. This thesis is a part of a larger research collaboration project in coordinated inventory control where NGiL (N
This master thesis studies a two-echelon distribution system for perishable items with two non identical retailers. Each location is managed following a standard continuous (R, Q) ordering policy. The demand occurs solely at the retailers and follows independent Poisson processes. Customers are backordered when the retailer is out of stock. The items are considered as fixed lifetime perishables. W
Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse how ALPHA BETA’s repair business is organised and structured today. Second purpose of this thesis is to propose focus points for making today’s repair process more effective. Issues The main issues for the thesis: • To present a situation analysis of ALPHA BETA’s repair process today. • To describe the internal business strengths and we
