Tourists Income and Its Implications on Spending Pattern

The alpine Indian State Sikkim represents nearly hundreds of Himalayan hill stations in India and other South Asian countries. Tourism is the most important phenomenon in almost all alpine states where leisure and recreations are predominating. Most of those destinations are also leaning more towards sustainable tourism practices as these are in a continuum starting from high intensity mass tourism to less intensity adventure and special interest tourism. The present article is a study clarifying the degree of performance and sustainability of tourist spending with a wider dimension of income and its relationship with some core tourism variables viz. the duration of stay, purpose of visit, optional excursion, group numbers and future visit.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Recession Recovery

The challenges presented by recent changes in the business environment have sharpened the focus on the need for robust approaches to supply chain improvement. For most companies around the world, resources have been reduced, inventory drained, technology spending curtailed, and core processes scaled back in order to adjust to the current reality of reduced demand. So, this paper mainly concentrates on giving some tips based on recession recovery strategies. Firstly, this paper discussed the supply chain management trends in and up to 2015, then general concept of recession and the relation between recession and supply chain management system, then some fatal mistakes of recession recovery according to the supply chain experts and recession and recovery related literature reviews are summarized to identify ultimately the recession recovery strategies for the manufacturer. The paper ended with some supply chain management related predictions, tips for reducing supply chain barriers. Moreover, a brief section of this paper also here highlights the supply-chain infrastructure helpful for recession recovery that is one of the important factors for the reason of cost-reduction, resource planning and maintenance etc. in today's supply chain management and related environment.

Employability Enhancement and the Role of Soft Skills Training

Soft skills help to enhance the ability of individuals to efficiently work in a global business environment and ensure effective use of domain knowledge in actual practice. To improve the employability of job-seekers, soft skills have a crucial role to play. However, the importance of soft skills has always been sidelined in the Indian context for the need of other core technical skills. This paper highlights the importance of soft skills in the present environment, focuses on bottlenecks faced by soft skills training, and also suggests some guidelines by analyzing the past research papers, reports, surveys and government programmes on issues related to employability and soft skills.

Examination of Internet Banking Customer Perception of Service Quality

The present study empirically examines the impact of internet banking service quality dimensions on Customer Satisfaction. This study is a cross-sectional survey that employed the use of pre-structured questionnaire to collect primary data from a sample of 120 respondents through personal contact, field survey and email. Collected data have been analyzed through SPSS 21 software by different statistical tools like Reliability test for judgment of internal consistency of collected data and paired t- test. It was also found that customers are satisfied with IS-QUAL dimensions. Service quality has become as one of the major factors of the client satisfaction.

Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Infrastructure

A Mashup is the process of merging multiple sources of data, both spatial and non-spatial, into a single integrated spatial display. It is about extracting spatial data from a non-spatial source and combining with other spatial data and finally displaying it on a map. Mashups can potentially combine any type of contents and functions over the web, regardless of whether a formal interface of programming is available (Fu et al., 2011). The present study discusses the basic architecture of the Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS and its application in tourism promotion.

Working Capital Optimization for R&D Activities in SMEs for Indian Suppliers

In recent years, numerous scholars have highlighted how working capital optimization to investments in intangible capital might have a significant impact upon the pace of technological change, particularly for economies characterized by a distribution of supplier size heavily skewed towards small and medium enterprises. In this paper, we investigate the issue of working capital optimization to innovation in SMEs in India with respect to the future changes in the banking system. Our empirical analysis is twofold: first, we implement a probit model in order to observe if the indicators of R&D intensity still exert some significant impact on the probability of being denied (or not) additional credit. After deriving these results, which in general suggest a weak effect of the variables accounting for R&D intensity on the probability of a supplier declaring the need of additional financial resources, we perform a simulation on the potential impacts of the adoption of the capital requirements by Indian banks on lending conditions to small and medium enterprises innovation.

Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, and Sustainable Tourism

This chapter reveals the overview of sustainability; the overview of environmental sustainability; environmental sustainability and climate change; environmental sustainability, water resources, and energy consumption; and the overview of sustainable tourism. Sustainability is the important issue that attempts to bridge social science with civic engineering and environmental science with the technology of the future. Environmental sustainability is important because it ensures people have water and resources, and adopting its practices protects the environment and human health. Sustainable tourism is a growing segment of the global tourism industry that makes the positive contributions to the environmental, socio-cultural, and economic well-being of destinations and local communities around the world. Sustainability, environmental sustainability, and sustainable tourism are rooted in three issues that are considerably linked to fossil fuel depletion, climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, and the increasing costs of energy and water.

Adoption of Sustainable Energy Solutions

Growing affluence and urbanization are commanding huge demand for fossil fuels. Energy security and sustainable development have gained attention in the current global environment. Many businesses and consumers are becoming aware and concerned about damage to the environment. Huge amount of energy can be saved by using energy efficient equipment. Lighting accounts for about 30 percent of total residential electricity use. LED bulbs are being used as an energy-efficient lamp with an objective of conserving energy. The paper examines the adoption of energy efficient lighting technologies in Mumbai households. A survey was administered to examine how the environmental concern, environmental responsible behaviour and perceived value of LED Bulbs products impact its adoption by the consumers. The study validates that factors such as perceived value, environmental concern and environmentally responsible behaviour are instrumental in stimulating the adoption of LED bulbs among users.

The Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan

Keeping in view the vision “to become an integral part of the financial system and participate in the nation building'', the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB) was established in August, 1993 as the only stock exchange in the small and beautiful country of Bhutan. Initially RSEB was set up under the control of Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), the central monetary authority of the country, but in 1996, it was delinked as an autonomous body. Since 1993, the exchange has registered a growth as far as number of listed companies, market capitalization and numbers of shareholders are concerned. But during a journey of twenty years, whether the growth ratio registered is satisfactory or not, is a cause of real concern. This paper aims to highlight the trend of growth in the performance of the stock exchange for the past decade from different angles. The paper also aims to critically emphasize in measuring the performance of RSEB to be able to popularize stock investment as an investment tool for personal finance. The contribution of capital formation into GDP of the country also will be analyzed. The paper will utilize both primary and secondary data to be collected through questionnaire and available on different Government publications, Journals, Reports and websites.

Benefit of One Baja Fertilizer for Attaining Agricultural Sustainability among Malaysian Paddy Farmers

Green technology is the means of improving towards the rising environmental concern. An implication of One BAJA fertilizer is the need for the modern development in agricultural industry. The main objective of this study was to identify the marketing strategies on One BAJA fertilizer among Malaysian Paddy farmers. Based on B2B market segmentation, or in other words industrial market segmentation, for the One Baja Fertilizer of Commerce in Malaysia. One Baja Fertilizer markets in Malaysia operations cover the need of green fertilizer among Malaysia paddy farmers. The study is considered to be a pretty reliable source of information for One Baja Fertilizer among Malaysian paddy farmers. A continuous collection of information is required for completing the market strength and weakness. One Baja Fertilizer operations were concluded to be pretty successful, though a few services should be terminated for not being profitable and improvements in the organization's operations and structure should be realized in order to better cover all market segments present at One Baja Fertilizer.