https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136544 2026-04-16T03:15:18Z 2026-04-16T03:15:18Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136677 2025-06-26T11:23:55Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Water on a small island state : a hydrological tour of Malta Abstract: Though the concept of niche tourism remains a contested one, it is generally understood as a targeted tourism offering, with a particular segment of the market in mind, as opposed to a generic product designed for mass consumption (Robinson, Heitmann, & Dieke, 2011). Framed slightly differently, the process of creating a niche tourism product can be seen as an effort to design a product with the specific needs of customers in mind. As such, then, any tour specifically designed to the needs and interests of a particular group (as opposed to a mass consumption standardised tour, designed to have something to please everyone) can be said to constitute niche tourism.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136676 2025-06-26T11:12:30Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Incoming tourism from Japan Abstract: When I started working as a travel agent in Malta in 2007, most Japanese tourists used package tours, since tours were mainly sold through travel agencies in Japan. Their main promotion was either through their websites or brochures displayed at travel agencies’ offices. Most people who had booked expensive private tours were wealthy people or people who had already travelled around the world so that customers sought a new destination. However, the relationship between Malta and Japan is not limited to the travel industry.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136675 2025-06-26T11:06:22Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Why is climate change regarded as the most serious environmental problem affecting our planet? Abstract: Climate Change poses serious challenges to the global and the local community. The issue reached the media, hence became focal point of interest, due to the increased effects of climate activism what one can label as a “Greta Thunberg effect”, after a young activist leading the Fridays for Future movement. To understand the magnitude of the issue one need to see the complex interrelationship between profit orientation of businesses, the related management practices, and their relation to the natural environment. [excerpt]

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136674 2025-06-26T11:03:02Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The airport servicescape Abstract: Gupta and Venkaiah (2015) place airport operations very neatly into four major services regulating areas. The first and main airport responsibility confirmed to date is that of the transportation of both passengers and goods. The second is based on the airport’s servicescape and hence concentrates on the natural, communal, and commercial environments. The third deals with the airport’s responsibility for income generation, while the fourth and last is based on its landside tenants through the payment of fees, rents, and airside concessionaires. (p. 47.). The authors further group the activities within the airport into definite areas, namely those of vital operations and facility services, handling services and commercial activities. Aeronautical services are included in the vital operations, as is airport safety, which is given priority to ensure the security of the airport visitors and passengers. The handling services, on the other hand, deal with aircraft and passenger arrivals and departures and all the related sectors therein. From the non-aeronautical side, commercial services were pre Pandemic and are being seen to be given prominence yet again due to the amount of revenue which past years had shown to have been brought in from this sector. [excerpt]

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