BTW theme song: “Make a Certain Breakthrough”

“Make a Certain Breakthrough”


In my life of searching
For the plain and simple way,
Many paths were so winding,
The roads were never straight

Then the Spirit of God broke through
and healed my broken wings
And showed me the way into His heart

And I know that God is leading in a clear and certain way
My one life for your purpose, Jesus,
I offer up this day
To follow you completely, to do all that you say

Cleanse my life, fill me up
And use me this day
Make a certain breakthrough
Make it today


In these days of danger,
Lord, we rest upon Your grace
With Your tender and skillful hands
You shape this stubborn clay

Yes, You calm my inmost being,
giving courage to hope again
And to build this one life in power and faith

And I know that God is leading in a clear and certain way
My one life for your purpose, Jesus,
I offer up this day
To follow you completely,to do all that you say

Cleanse my life, fill me up
And use me this day
Make a certain breakthrough
Make it today!

Whitstable cakes

heart broken to south pole

one of my friends went to south pole for travelling, when I reach his pictures of south pole, my heart is broken. South pole is in danger! Climate change and tourists behaviours hurt the south pole so much! My tears come down! Don't hurt south pole! The lovely penguins, sea dogs and polar bears will disappear one day! Tourism should bring happiness to human and environment, why tourism now hurt the lovely south pole? Human behaviours have brought damages to south pole and the lives.South pole is no longer like it is used to be! I want to beg to everyone , if you are not to protect or do some research about south pole, could you do not go there to interrupt their lives? could you protect our environment and clean up our world from now on?

source: Anthony facebook

I am proud of my presentation group!

Let me introduce my presentation group: Quynh(from Vietnam), Sirirat(Thailand), Fab(Brazil)
I have learnt a lot from you during our preparing of presentation! Thanks all of you! I am proud of you!
I have learnt:

• how to make an academic structure
• I should put the source under every picture from download
• It is good to make out the paperwork of what i say to practice
• Never avoid doing some research of what i can't understand
• try to find out the answer of difficulty
• group work can benefit everyone
• It's good to know more about other's part. we can learn from each other
• try to use the most reliable resources
• try to put every skill we learn into our presentation
• add a small conclusion in every part
• try to avoid using the complicated word that i don't know how to read

We did a very good job in our presentation! I begin to know deeply about what is a good presentation, especially in an academic way.

Thank you every one! I am proud of you!

Farm holiday in Australia

Introduction:
With foreign exchange earnings of more than € 14.5 billion in 2000, tourism is unquestionably one of the cornerstones of the Austrian economy. There are 15.500 farmers involve in farm tourism, which represent 1/5 of all tourist enterprises and 1/7 of the total Austrian supply of tourist beds (Derek, R. H. Lesley, R & Morag, M.,2003). Farm holidays become an important economic segment in agriculture and tourism and predominantly in the economy of rural regions.

Market segment:
International tourist (German, France, Span, China, Japan)
Internal tourist (family, school students in urban centres, company meetings)

Marketing strategy:

• Branding (logotype " Holiday on the farm ")

• Special offers for target groups(UNWTO,2004)
  Holidays on the organic farm

Holidays on a health farm Holidays on a baby and children's farm Holidays on a farm for wheelchair users and the physically handicapped Holidays on a horseback riding farm Holidays on a cyclist's farm Holidays on a wine farm

• Quality categorization (UNWTO,2004)
  Farms are awarded 2,3 or 4 flowers according to their rating. Eg: farmstead quality, facility quality, service quality
• Internet/ New media
  Worldwide webs:
  http://www.blogger.com/www.farmholidays.com
  http://www.australianfarmtourism.com.au/
• Cooperation with travel agencies, tourist information centres (TICs),
  Trade and travel magazines/journals (Lesley, R. & Derek, H., 2001)
• Cooperation to reduce the weakness of the small scale enterprises on the market
  Tourist farms some 3.400 (with 44.800 tourist beds) are members of the Austrian farm holidays organization (Clarke,J. 1996)
  

References:
1.Clarke,J. 1996. Reports: Farm accommodation and the communication mix. Tourism Management, 17: 611-620
2.Derek, R. H. Lesley, R & Morag, M., 2003. New Directions in Rural Tourism: local impacts, global trends. USA: Ashgate P137-144
3.Lesley, R. & Derek, H., 2001. Rural Tourism and Recreation: Principles to Practice. CABI
4.UNWTO, (World Tourism Organization) 2004. Rural tourism in Europe: experiences, development and perspectives. World Tourism Organization

Farm holidays in Australia

Farm holidays in Austria: Quality classification and theming of farms as development and marketing tools
Mr.Hans Embacher

From chapter2(the experience of western European countries in rural tourism) of Rural Tourism in Europe: Experiences, Development and Perspectives
ISBN 92-844-0716-8 published by the World Tourism Organization 2004



The grading and theming strategy of farm holidays in Austria have proved to be valuable tools for the development of agricultural and tourist industry as well as the challenge to the marketing.

The marketing strategies are as followed,

• Branding (logotype "Holidays on the farm")
• Quality categorization (farms are awarded 2,3 or 4 flowers according to their rating:farmstead quality, facility quality,service quality)
  
• Differentiation and specialization through special offers for target groups( holidays on the organic farm, a health farm, a baby and children's farm, farm for wheelchair users and the physically handicapped, a horseback riding farm,a cyclist's farm, a wine farm)
  
• Cooperation to reduce the weaknesses of the small scale enterprises on the market
• Internet/ New media

The major effects in the past 10 years were:

• Considerable improvement of the product-quality
• Quality orientation among the landlords has increased
• Clear, coherent strategy and strict criteria help to position the farm-holidays-product in the agricultural and tourist industry
• The image of the farm-holidays-product in the market has improved
• The very diverse holiday offer on the farms becomes more accessible.The quality and theming system facilitates decision making for the customers
• Grading and theming both support the search for the individually ideal holiday farm on the Internet.
• Ministries and other public bodies have a tool to assess quality when deciding on investments and their effects resp
• Overall the income from farm holidays has increased
  

farm tourism cooperation in Taiwan

Farm tourism cooperation in Taiwan
Ming-huang Lee

From chapter 12 of Rural Tourism and Sustainable Business
Edited by Derek Hall, Irene Kirkpatrick and Morag Mitchell,2005
channel view publications

Development of PYO Farms
Pick-your-own(PYO)farms are farms open for tourists to pick,taste and purchase agricultural products and enjoy their holiday in the farm landscape. Farmers sale their products to the tourists directly instand of to the market.What's more , these kind of farms provide some entertainment like BBQ,and other facilities as well as restaurant services or home-stay to meet the needs of tourists. Tourists can enjoy picking,tasting and buying what they want in the farm. What's more, they can enjoy the activities held by farm. These kind of farm have increased the income of farmers and developed the agriculture. On the other hand, they face some big challenges,such as problems of the marketing of farm landscape,the sustainable planning, management of PYO farms, the future development of next generation,cooperation between the farm holders.

This chapter has discussed the evaluation criteria for establishing a PYO farm,the diversification of different crops and opening periods of PYO farms Taichung county. There are two cases study of managing a restaurant and accommodation in the PYO farms. All these discussions push out the requirement of establishing a PYO organisation to manage the PYO farms to catch up the pace of international market and to develop the sustainability of PYO farms.

It is an interesting and argent topic to develop the PYO farms. It can be seen that we need a efficiency organisation to manage these farms, but which party or benefit representative will lead the organisation? Government or non-government organisation? Can they represent all the farmers benefits? There are not every farm family want to join the group,they prefer to manage their farm land by themselves. They just want to enjoy their life without tourism interrupt. Does this tendency of building up PYO farm really enhance their livelihood? All these problems I want to argue need further and deeper discussion.