Daisy is a TDM graduate (2008-9) and is currently a project coordinator at abouTourism, an international destination consultancy based in Athens, Greece.
I remember the feeling of excitement when I discovered the Tourism Destination Management master program offered by NHTV. The variety of subjects analysed in the theoretical part […]
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The Galapagos Islands’ unique and broad variety of creatures inspired Darwin for his theory on natural selection and have survived and evolved for hundreds of years. Now, however that unique ecology is threatened by the increased tourism development of the past decades, alarming the local authorities and forcing them to act towards the protection […]
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Cambodia is a country whose most residents do not belong to the places where they have ended up. The Khmer Rouge regime’s wave of violence killed 1 in 5 of the country’s total population in less than four years. After the regime’s end most of the remaining locals moved towards the shore line whose […]
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The people of the Micronesian islands are constantly witnessing the ocean waters rise, critically changing the image of their land. Many of these tropical islands across the Pacific depend on tourism, with water-based activities. However the underwater environment, apart from the land, is also threatened by climate change. Beautiful beaches are giving way to […]
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This August the Korean Ministry of Transportation accepted the request of its national airline to reject Tiger Airways’ establishment in Korea, in a spirit of protectionism and nationalism. This request aimed at protecting local airlines from competition and lower fares, using as an argument technical terms from bilateral agreements currently rejected and characterized by […]
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Thailand is aggressively promoted as the health care center of the Asian region, aiming to attract 265.000 Indonesian visitors this year. Thailand focuses on the Indonesian market because of the country’s large population and the growth in visitors seeking medical care abroad along with their shopping. The expectancy of growth in visitor numbers is […]
