12 research outputs found
The Dutch Perspective on Cross-Border Small Claims Litigation: Guarded Optimism and Pragmatism. A Normative and Empirical Approach
Tourism education's roles in sustainable tourism development: A case study of SIDS introduction
The tourism industry makes a significant contribution to the development of many Small Island Developing States (SIDS). In spite of this, often in these island states tourism education is neglected in the wider national development plan. This paper presents the key education findings from a broader study on tourism education and local employment as contributors to the sustainable development of the SIDS case of the Maldives. The research findings showed that tourism education was a crucial factor for employability, yet at the same time, tourism education does not meet local employment needs
Women's Substantive Equality and the Protection of Social and Economic Rights Under the Canadian Human Rights Act
Collective terminology to describe the minority ethnic population: the persistence of confusion and ambiguity in usage
A wide range of terminology is used, often interchangeably, to describe the minority ethnic group population as a whole and major segments of it.While some terms have been extended to give clarity, as in ‘Asian, Black and other minority ethnic’, much in this lexicon remains cumbersome or ambiguous in usage. Further, white minority groups such as the Irish frequently get omitted in the category shuffle, creating ‘injustices of recognition’. Imprecision in terminology can equally apply to ‘pan-ethnic’ terms like ‘Asian’ and ‘Black’, the specific terms having the potential to describe quite different populations in the absence of explanation about the concept being measured and method of assignment. The use of terminology that is precisely defined and acceptable to those being described is advocated