Hospitality Industry description

Instructions:

Your first written assignment will be an essay, written in APA format (If you are unsure of the proper paper format, refer to the template provided in the classroom or the resources in our online library). Your essay should be no more than 3 pages of written content, along with a properly formatted title page and reference page (5 pages total at most). An abstract should not be included. The content for your essay is described below.

There are many places one could work in the hospitality industry.  Some of the segments that provide employment opportunities to hospitality graduates include lodging, food service, tourism, meeting and event planning, and the cruise line industry.  Briefly describe each segment of the industry.  Include industry resources to define the size or employment reach of the industry.  Identify at least one example of a career that a hospitality management graduate could pursue in each one of the above five segments, preferably a role you would characterize as an ideal role for you. Each segment should be at least one structured paragraph in your paper, possibly using one paragraph to describe or define the industry segment and using another paragraph to focus on employment in that segment. Use transitions.

Blog post revision

Overview
Imagine you are the manager of a software development team working on new applications for your company, Optimum Way Development, Inc. The Marketing department has asked you to create a blog post that they can post on the company website to promote one of the applications your team is developing. The audience for this blog post is non-technical potential customers. You asked one of your developers to draft the blog post, which you will then revise before sending it to the Marketing department. The developer has just sent you the draft of the blog post.
Prompt
Review the attached blog post and revise it so the blog post uses appropriate:
Style and tone
Inclusive language
Technical language/explanation
Writing mechanics (e.g., spelling, grammar, punctuation)
You will be modifying the actual blog post to create a final product that can be given to the Marketing department (i.e., you will be making the desired changes within the document, not providing editing comments).
Guidelines for Submission
To complete this activity, you must submit a blog post.
The final blog post must:
Be 400 to 500 words
Be submitted as a Word document or PDF
Completely address all of the requirements in the Prompt section

This is the Blog for revision:

IT 226 4-1 Activity: Blog Post for Revision

SnarlReporter

Yall need SnarlReporter! SnarlReporter will be an AI driven web application that will monitor all public traffic cameras in the USA and create a color-coded real time visual representation of the traffic problems present in any country. This is a very, very beneficial web application for customers who have a need to see how traffic problems appear.

The goal of the developers is to provide a toll that can be used by city planners and state and federal governments. When creating public transportation project plan for rail and high speed train or roadway modifications that would improve traffic flow and easy commute times. Expensive traffic studies need to be performed. These are costly and consume a significant amount of time, thereby delaying the project start and inflating the cost. Since the system is driven by publicly available data, access to the system can be provided at reasonably low costs.

Consumer level access will be provided free of charge as the data will not be downloadable as it would be for paying customers. A paying customer would get his detailed report containing daily, weekly and monthly time of day-based traffic profiles. Paying customers can create many different reports within the application! The manual that comes with the application shows customers how to toggle different options, show or hide information, change font colors, reorganize the order in which information is displayed on the report, categorizes the information on the report, and allows the customer to insert custom fields, and import spreadsheets into the application to combine that information with the information in the application.

In future iterations the system will use accident data as well, to try to explain some of the anomalous traffic jams, although the use of data smoothing techniques may eliminate the need for this This can only be determined after a functional prototype has been built and a significant sample of data collected. Optimum Wave Development is committed to creating innovative and useful applications for our customers. Customer feedback drives how we change our applications for the futurewe push to create applications that help you perform the tasks you need to every day. By choosing an Optimum Way Development application, your investing in your current and future success!

Discussion board 3

write 400 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

Competition is a driving force in business. Respond to the following questions regarding competition and competition in the healthcare industry:

From an economics perspective, what is a competitive market?  
Based on your definition and understanding of economic competition, is the healthcare industry a competitive market?
 Why or why not?
Provide one example of a recent merger or acquisition between healthcare providers, healthcare providers and insurers or pharmacy benefit providers and insurers.  
What are the issues influencing these decisions on acquisition?What is the role of the government in regulating these business transactions?

Why study Economics

Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) on the suggested topic.
Your introduction should include the thesis statement – main idea of the paper (here is more detailed explanation – https://essayshark.com/blog/how-to-write-a-thesis-statement-to-make-it-clear/). Don’t include any new information in the conclusion. It should  restate the thesis statement of the paper.
Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples (in-text citations). List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.
MLA format – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html