Development of Responsible Tourism Guidelines for South Africa

March 15, 2017

DFID is comrnitted to maximising the contribution the private sector can make towards its poverty reduction goals through encouraging responsible business practices. Responsible business embraces economie, social and environmental as well as fmancial responsibility. DFID's Rural Livelihoods Department (RLD) is supporting research on the policy and practice of delivering social and environmental added value through, for instance, the funding of Natural Resources and Ethical Trade programme (NRET) work on ethical trade and horticulture, and etbical trade and forest-dependent people.

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As the World’s Leading River Cruise Line® and the #1 Ocean Cruise Line, we are constantly innovating our business and growing our fleet. With more than 60 river ships and 3 ocean vessels cruising across 6 continents, we are the largest, most award-winning company in the industry. There is tremendous opportunity to join our dynamically growing company—whether on board our ships or in our corporate offices.

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Concept of Operations for Uncrewed Urban Air Mobility

whitePaper | September 30, 2022

a Concept of Operations (ConOps) for uncrewed, passenger carrying, urban air mobility (UAM) operations involving highly-automated, electric aircraft. While the concept is presented within the context of the United States national airspace system (NAS), it is intended to provide a blueprint for such operations globally. This ConOps is intended to facilitate stakeholder engagement, concept maturation, and ultimately industry consensus for how to enable such operation

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Safeguarding the future of travel

whitePaper | July 8, 2021

This whitepaper explains: Travel is an ultra-high-risk sector for card acquirers because most payments are for future delivery. If merchants fail to fulfill a service for which they have taken payment (often months in advance) customers can recover their money from the acquirer by initiating chargeback. Acquirers traditionally demand substantial cash collateral (holdbacks) or other financial security from travel merchants to mitigate this risk. Holdbacks lock away substantial funds for travel companies and can therefore be highly damaging to liquidity. High-profile collapses and the COVID-19 crisis have driven acquirers to impose harsher terms or quit the travel sector completely.

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High availability -Solutions and implementations

whitePaper | September 8, 2022

With ever-increasing pressure to remain online and attend to customer needs, IT systems need to constantly review and adapt their solutions on how to cope with system failures and resume operation in the shortest amount of time, with minimum to no material/data loss. This is reflected in the variety of High Availability solutions available and number of business case scenarios that they address

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Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Your Way to Digital Personalization.

whitePaper | April 14, 2022

As a marketer, if you are strategizing ways to both differentiate yourself from the competition while also forging better, stronger bonds with your existing customers, personalization should be on your radar. In many ways, digital personalization represents the ultimate experience goal for most organizations — allowing them to fully customize an individual's experience rather than trying to fit all potential customers into a "one size fits all" box that doesn't really exist anymore.

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Business travel safety 101: Keeping employees safe on the road

whitePaper | December 14, 2019

Business travelers are increasingly aware of the challenges they face when leaving the office. A study by American Express Global Business Travel and the Association for Corporate Travel Executives found that more than anything else, today's business travelers want a better sense of security when traveling on behalf of their organizations.

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TRIP CHAIN TOKEN : TRIP

whitePaper | July 28, 2022

Since before COVID-19, the tourism industry has been based offline for too long and has not been able to take advantage of the rapid trend of online entry, making it difficult to respond to the rapidly diversifying travel needs of consumers. In addition, it was an industry that did not actually have a large operating profit even though sales were large due to chronic low margins and returns. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic hit directly, the travel industry began to collapse helplessly regardless of size. However, companies that need to make a comeback somehow are looking to respond to the new era while complementing their existing business models. And how can blockchain and virtual currency.

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Viking Cruises

As the World’s Leading River Cruise Line® and the #1 Ocean Cruise Line, we are constantly innovating our business and growing our fleet. With more than 60 river ships and 3 ocean vessels cruising across 6 continents, we are the largest, most award-winning company in the industry. There is tremendous opportunity to join our dynamically growing company—whether on board our ships or in our corporate offices.

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