STATES Flashcards

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Legislative law

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Establishes government(administrative) agencies

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Administrative law

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Deals with the rules and regulations established by government agencies

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Executive branch

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Guides government policy

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Is over booking a flight legal?

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Yes.

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Business process management

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Striving to align objectives and activities with customer needs.
Stresses innovation, flexibility bs technology

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Employee training

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Eductating workers on how best to preform their job

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Organizational structuring

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The way business functions relate within a company

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Continuous improvement

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Refers to continuously evaluating business processes to make them more efficient

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Tangible objects

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Goods

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Productive activities

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Services

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Economic votes

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Theoretical votes for a product cast by choosing to buy one item over another

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Organizational recources

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Everything a business uses to operate(tangible and intangible items). Important to determine if they have the capacity to adapt using current resources

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Productive activities

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Services

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Economic goods

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Physical goods that are useful, transferable and scarce

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Pure risk

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Risk that can be covered by insurance

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Customer incentives for referrals

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DISCOUNTS (not free products!)

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Services

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Intangible objects that can be sold

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Services marketing

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Action taken to develop, promote, and distribute an intangible object

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Product marketing

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Develops, promotes and distributes a tangible object that can be sold

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External source that resort gift shops often use to identify goods and services that customers want and need

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vendors - they can tell gift shops which of their items are popular with customers.

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Vendor

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A company which sells products to other businesses. They are a good source of information because they deal with many stores and can get a good indication of what customers want and need

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Shippers

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transport and deliver goods

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Owners

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Offer INTERNAL information about what customers like

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First step in the project planning process

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Determine scope and purpose

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Capitol goods
Include buildings tools and machinery to make goods
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Emergency procedures usually include plans for...
Disabled customers
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Core values
Represent the underlying product value and image
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What do you need core values to do?
Determine a target market.
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Penetration pricing
a pricing strategy where the price of a product is initially set low to rapidly reach a wide fraction of the market and initiate word of mouth
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Psychological pricing
A minimal price deduction so the customer feels like there is increased saving even when there isn't
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Price lining
Selling a goods at a limited number of predetermined price points
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Price skimming
When a price is deliberately set high to appeal to those who want to buy it at a high price and be the first to have it, and is then lowered to make it affordable for more customers
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Trade magazines
Can help track environmental changes in technology that impact hospitality and tourism market
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Visitor trends
Help predict numbers for upcoming bookings it is likely to receive based on ages, incomes, travel habits etc
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Competitive trends
Identify directions that other properties are using including price adjustments
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Growth phase of the business cycle
Consumers and producers borrowing more money because interest rates lower which encourages borrowing
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How to persuade people to go along with change
Explain how the change will benefit them
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Computer technology benefits human resources management by...
Electronically processing information
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Primary hospitality and tourism information
Free reception for frequent travelers in which feedback is collected
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Chamber of commerce
Posts tourism information on their websites in different types of statuses like demotraphics and occupancy rates
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Vacation pay
Reinbursment for work done - EARNED income
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Acounting Information
Acounting information helps managers make financial decisions that affect the business hiring more staff
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Profit and Loss Statement
an income statement that shows how much money the business has made or lost
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`Journals (accounting)
special books or computer programs where a business's transactions are recorded in the order in which they occur
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Financial records can be...
interpreted in different ways
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Sequential patterns
data mining concerned with finding statistically relevant patterns between data examples where the values are delivered in a sequence - HELPS WITH PREDICTING CUSTORMER REACTIONS
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Cluster relationship
Relationships found when items are grouped according to logical relationships
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-1>R>0
One variable increases as the other decreases
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0>R>1
Two variables increase or decrease together
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R=0
Tao variables do not vary together
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R=1
Perfect correlation
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Digital convergence
The tendency of digital services that were once seperate entities to combine into new forms (ex internet offering phone services)
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Comparing variables
Help hotels analyze and interpret marketing information contained in databases to compare several variables that change with each property
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Legal records
Contain payroll records, asset records, promotional records etc
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Firewalls
Protects digital business information from malware
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Spyware
Tracks and captures a computer users internet habits
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Follow up letters
Written following an interview to express appreciation for the inferview regardless of if you were or were not GODESS
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Trade shows...
Help companies obtain sales leads.
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Color reproduction processes....
Define different visible areas
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Vendor selection
Advertising is an important fact. Some vendors help with advertising by giving promotional materials, which gives them an advantage in the selection process
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Social bookmarking sites
Allow users to post tag and rank links to various other sites - del.icio.us is an example
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Email filters
Block out unwanted information - the can only accept mail from accepted addresses or keep emails with certain words in he subject out of the mailbox
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Color harmonies
Most important part of advertising! Colors have to go together for an ad to be effective
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Corporate image and positioning pricing
Setting prices that are consistent with overall company image and positioning - a upscale hotel will set prices high to keep that reputation
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Discriminatory pricing
Involves setting two or more prices to appeal to select markets
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Corporate pricing
Setting prices to meet objectives like profit levels and sale volume
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Competitive pricing
Setting prices based on the prices of the competiton
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News releases should
Be objective in presenting facts
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Databases
Computerized storage of information - tracks marketing communication activities
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Team selling
Involves putting together a team of specialists to sell to a business for large and complex products - helps effectively explain benefits
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Exclusive agreements
Suppliers requirements for its customer to handle only its products or to agree not to handle other companies products - ILLEGAL WHEN IT RESTRICTS TRADE
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Chanel management
Chanel management is changing the Chanel used to promote -ex adding a website
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Marketing information management
Gathering accessing synthesizing evaluating and dissembling information for use in baking business decisions
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Liabilities
ACOUNTS payable, taxes and interests payable added
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Influencer
A person whose credibility allows to share their opinion with a large group of people
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Travel promotion act of 2010
Goal: arrest international visitors to America
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Mind mapping
Technology that allows people to organize a lot of info in an effective way
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Travel planning
Provided by travel agents (producers) who sell to consumers
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Anti robbery systems include
Cash control, video access control
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Written reports
Prepared by managers for other managers to help with decision making
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Major functions of marketing
Selling, pricing, promotion , Chanel management
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Installment credit
Installment credit is a type of credit that has a fixed number of payments
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Revolving credit
Revolving credit is a type of credit that does not have a fixed number of payments
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Executive report
Most important report info
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Elastic demand
Demand that can change when other factors such as price change
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Non interactive content
Plain text, no audio video etc
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Holding costs
What it costs to keep products in stock