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I was particularly interested in these topics, as VR is something relatively new that I never got a chance to learn about. This has not only been an eye-opening experience, but also an interactive way to explore this new world that is going to become more and more meaningful as our society keeps developing.

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This module made me dive deeper into the amazing surroundings of Transilvania and helped me connect with my inner child by enjoying places that mean a lot to me.
I also documented on the types of tourism and debated whether a seasonal career in this field would be successful or not.

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It was a great opportunity to learn more about the huge impact your mindset has on the way we grow, learn, and develop as human beings, as well as on our own perception of ourselves. Moreover, I found out how stress is tightly related to our body language and some suggestions of how we can change our perspective and discover solutions on how to deal with these stressful situations. In addition, I explored some of the skills that make you a successful entrepreneur and found out more about cyberbullying.
Overall, I had a great experience and was fascinated by some of the things I discovered.

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How to use social media to promote your newly set-up tourist company?

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How to use social media to promote your newly set-up tourist company?

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Firstly, social media helps in promoting your name and brand of the business. It is important to make both stand out, so that it attracts people to come and check out your products or services. Having a name with an impact or a brand that triggers one's curiosity is a key rule to  follow when promoting your brand.
Furthermore, you should tell your clients about your goods and products in detail, so that they can explore them.
Some effective ways to promote it:

choose the right social platform. Research can determine your target audience and therefore the site that would be more likely succesful

encourage engagement with your posts and updates. Business also needs to be interactive in order to keep people's attention and attracting more clients

don't over promote. Create a schedule of posting and create content that people find entertaining, in order not to feel like your business is regular advertising

build a strong community. Nothing will bring more clients than a supportive community. Create a strong bond with your loyal clients by chatting, addressing problems and encouraging them to engage with your content.

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A business plan outlines what your business does and what you are trying to achieve. It explains what the market opportunity is, what makes your business unique and how you could make it a success.
Writing a business plan:

checks that your idea makes sense

plans your sales, marketing and business operations

identifies problems and how to overcome them

sets out your objectives and the financial return you expect

works out what financing you need

convinces other people to back your business

Why is it important?

Once written, the plan is a benchmark for the performance of the business.

As part of the process, you set concrete objectives and plan how you will achieve them.

Writing a business plan helps you focus and develop your ideas. Priorities are identified. Non-priorities are dropped, saving precious time.

Putting the plan in writing makes it easier to spot any gaps where you have more to do.

The plan sets out your strategy and action plan for the next one to three years, or sometimes longer.

By involving your employees in the complete planning process, you continue to build up a successful, committed team.

A few tips on writing it:

Focus on what the reader needs to know.

Make sure there are no spelling mistakes.

Detailed business plans are often quickly shelved, because they are difficult to use on an ongoing basis.

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http://www.zona3d.ro/work/2017/Gradina_Botanica_Dimitire_Brandza_TUR_Virtual_3D_Sera_Expozitie/vr3d/zona3d_gradina_botanica_stereo3d_tur_vr.html

The botanical garden of Bucharest is quite an interesting tourist attraction that can be visited virtually. It has a surface of 18.2 hectares including 4,000 square meters of greenhouses and has more than 10,000 species of plants. The first botanical garden in Bucharest was founded in 1860 near the Faculty of Medicine by Carol Davila. The decree establishing the Botanical Garden was signed by Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza on November 5 of that year.

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Good examples of virtual tourist attractions

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Good examples of virtual tourist attractions

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http://www.imagofactory.ro/inchisori/doftana/doftana.html

This is one tourist attraction that can only be visited virtually, which has played an important historical role at the end of the 19th century. Doftana Penitentiary is a high-rise building that served as a place of detention for almost half a century, including for political prisoners. Among the important names that were imprisoned here are the communists Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ilie Pintilie and the legionaries Horia Sima and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. During the communist regime, it was transformed into a museum precisely because of the membership of some detainees in this political ideology, and after the 1989 revolution, it was abandoned.

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3D mapping is the process of profiling objects in three dimensions to map them in the real world, being a product of modern technology.
While offering a realistic view of a certain location, it helps planners in building, measuring and visualizing their future project.
On the other hand, 3D mapping has been used as a source of entertainment for the general public, as it is an impressive work of art using extraordinary visual effects. It is a world of limitless imagination where one can freely dive into and explore its wonders.

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Virtual reality in tourism and technology have helped travel and tourism industries increase their reach through travel booking websites, videos, blogs and travel photography. Digital tools and content are a vital source of information for vacationists organizing their next holiday or creating a destination wish list.

PROS

It provides economic benefits; a high satisfaction rate leads to attracting new potential markets.

Planning a vacation can be tiring work, and if the planned location doesn’t work out as hoped, it is bound to worsen one’s mood. But with the VR technology one can simply get a detailed and sharp view of any tourist location and decide if the trip is worth their time and effort.

It is a safe alternative for difficult and restrictive times such as pandemics

It promotes social inclusion, by offering both the elderly and the disabled

Virtual reality is a method to preserve exhibits in case of natural disaster, building mishaps, war, etc

There are less risks. People can ride roller coasters, go skydiving, and even bungee jump, all with VR. Virtual reality takes the risk of possible death due to injury out of the equation, while still providing the user with the adrenaline rush they are seeking.

It offers plenty of freedom, letting the tourist manage its time and plan the trip however they like in the given circumstances

CONS

Promoting virtually a tourist attraction could impact negatively the actual tourist destination

Virtual reality doesn’t offer flexibility in making changes to the pre-set program sequence

It can become addictive over time, damage one’s health and potentially endanger the others around them

It limits the human-to-human connection

Spending too much time visiting an online museum or tourist attraction can lead to serious health issues. Many users have reported nausea while using VR headsets and eyestrain. There are so many visual stimuli in the virtual world that if people use VR for too long, their eyes will become excessively strained.

Even though it simulates reality, like any human made service, it is imperfect and takes away the spark an actual travel experience would provide.

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Provide good examples of tourist attractions with VR (pictures/videos)

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Provide good examples of tourist attractions with VR (pictures/videos)

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https://muzeulvirtual.ro/?fbclid=IwAR3jmhAEyLNjU4uComAQ2xUt8BKJwtLTivQ-Yta0cH8TcRp25z1Ib4ifHsk
The Virtual Museum is a project of the National Museum of History of Romania that presents in a virtual way the main exhibition of MNIR (Historical Treasure, Lapidarium, Trajan's Column) It was designed both for those who failed to enjoy these exhibitions and for those who would be happy to see them again at any time.

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My name is Ema Calian, I am a 16-year-old Romanian teenager, presently studying at ‘Avram Iancu’ High School in the science department, mainly focusing on biology and chemistry. I participated in several programs and projects within the school and beyond.  An activity that highlighted my recent work was participating in the ‘Erasmus + Human Rights: Our Rights’ program, a one-week mobility that took place in Zagreb in November of 2021. Furthermore, I got involved in another project organized within the school's partnership with Erasmus programs, the essay competition “My dream job”, which has improved my eloquence in a foreign language and has inspired me to rethink and expand my future career plans. Some of the qualities that shape me as a person today have developed from an early age as a result of participating in drama class for over a decade. Acting has improved my verbal and non-verbal communication skills while offering me an environment to freely express myself and an opportunity to widen my business vocabulary. Playing the piano has definitely been one of the key factors in developing my concentration and perseverance.  I saw this project as a chance of broadening my horizons, stepping out of my comfort zone, and gaining a once-in-a-lifetime experience, as well as improving the things I lack.

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Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person. Online threats and mean, aggressive, or rude texts, tweets, posts, or messages all count. So does posting personal information, pictures, or videos designed to hurt or embarrass someone else.

I believe that it has grown alarmingly in the past few months, due to the Coronavirus spread which has impacted the online world’s development. It is also concerning the fact that this problem is usually not taken seriously, although it has led teenagers and younger audiences, in general, to have severe mental health issues such as depression and anxiety.

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Entrepreneurship is the ability and readiness to develop, organize and run a business, along with any of its uncertainties, in order to make a profit.

Some more definitions and concepts:

Even though entrepreneurs in different countries share some universal traits, they may also have other traits that are specific to their own national culture. Entrepreneurship behaviour is respectively linked to cultural values, and this association is based on the framework of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. Studies indicate that national culture plays an essential impact in entrepreneurship.

“Entrepreneurs are individuals who exploit market opportunity through technical and/or

organizational innovation” -Joseph Schumpeter (1965)

“Entrepreneurship is about taking risk”. - Frank H. Knight (1921) and Peter Drucker (1970)

“An Entrepreneur is someone who demonstrates initiative and creative thinking is able to organize social and economic mechanisms to turn resources and situations to practical account, and accepts risk and failure”. - Robert D. Hisrich (1990)

Successful entrepreneurs:

Examples:

Andrew Carnegie - Pioneered many manufacturing processes

Steve Jobs - Advancement in Computers and Media Devices

Henry Ford - Modern Transport Pioneer

Mark Zuckerberg - Revolutionized Online Social Media and Networking

Jeff Bezos - Revolutionized E-Commerce

William Gates - Changed the Personal Computer

Ariana Huffington  - A Pioneer in Blogging and Online News

Penny Streeter - Creating Employment Opportunities

Anita Roddick - Green Product Pioneer

Common personal characteristics:

Motivated Self-Starters

Eager to Learn

Creativity

Work Ethic

Passion

Common interpersonal skills:

Empathy

Good listener skills

Leadership skills

Analytical skills

Persuasive skills

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Stress is the body's reaction to feeling threatened or under pressure. It's very common, can be motivating to help us achieve things in our daily life, but too much stress can affect our mood, our body, and our relationships – especially when it feels out of our control.

Causes of stress:

Facing difficulties in our personal lives

Our own genes, experiences and upbringing

Financial struggles

Health issues

Big or unexpected life changes

feeling lonely or being pregnant

Effects of stress:

Muscle tension

Depression and anxiety

Fatigue

Irritability and anger

Insomnia or sleep disruptions

Headaches

Stomach and gastrointestinal problems

Trouble concentrating and overreacting

Stress management

Professor Amy Cuddy states that our life and the way we are perceived is influenced by our body language.

Power is how you react to stress. After conducting several experiments by making people pose in a certain way for a while and evaluate their testosterone and cortisol levels, she got to the following conclusions:

Our nonverbals govern how we think and feel about ourselves.

Our bodies change our minds, our minds change our behavior and our behavior changes the outcome.

My stress relief plan:

Some short term strategies that would work or that have already turned up effective, when put in a stressful situation are:

Meditation (including mindfulness), which has helped me be more aware of myself and my surroundings

Taking a walk, which made me appreciate nature, offered various distractions (kids playing, birds singing, the wind blowing) and I got a chance to carefully observe everything and everyone around me

However, long-term strategies to avoid or deal with stress are:

Expressing gratitude. Whenever i felt surrounded by apparently unsolvable problems, I learned to think instead of all the blessings that surround me, and sometimes it helped writing them down as well

Making time for leisure activities. These have proved to be very beneficial for me, for example, piano has made me calmer and improved my self-control in different situations

Practicing yoga. I haven’t tried this yet, but I’m sure I can include it on my stress relief plan, as it seems such a peaceful and relaxing activity.

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A growth mindset is a belief that skills and intelligence are built, not born, unlike a fixed mindset, that says otherwise.

It is a concept that stands at the base of learning.

The four key ingredients of growth are effort, challenges, mistakes, and feedback, while the two key characteristics of a mindset are belief and focus.

People with a growth mindset see the value in the effort as they are aware of their capability to learn, they view challenges as opportunities, understand the importance of mistakes during this process and are receptive to feedback as they are focusing on getting better.

People with a fixed mindset tend to avoid challenges, seeing that as a sign of the lack of intelligence, which through their eyes is seen as a born quality

You might find yourself having different mindsets depending on the circumstances because it’s actually a whole spectrum.

Recent studies show that you can physically grow your brain, as well as speeding it up and re-wiring it.

Carol Dweck has conducted numerous studies and experiments in order to establish the concept of a growth mindset.

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Where did you go on a summer holiday? Share your impressions with your peers

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Where did you go on a summer holiday? Share your impressions with your peers

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Last summer I went with my family on holiday in Palma de Mallorca, an island that belongs to Spain. I enjoyed both the beaches with breath-taking blue water, as well as the impressive villages and cities bulit on the steep and rocky hills. We got a chance to discover local culture and culinary delights, while spending quality time together. Me and my brother went diving and found some incredible underwater flora and fauna. The island is also well-known for it's numerous hicking trails, which we luckily got to explore. Mallorca is truly a paradise, we had an amazing time there and I would love to return there any time.

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Season work for young people in the tourism industry: pros and cons

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Season work for young people in the tourism industry: pros and cons

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PROS
- you get to experience working with different people on a daily basis, from whom you have the opportunity to learn
- there is a high chance of travelling the world, so if you have the lust for a nomadic life, you will have a great time
- you will find out more about various cultures among with their traditions

CONS
-people can be difficult and demand things to go their way
-there are also down seasons to contend with and when you work in the tourist industry the economy has a lot of bearing on how fruitful work is at the time
- you will be replaceable quite easily

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AGRITOURISM
Agritourism is where agriculture and tourism meet to provide you with an amazing educational experience, whether it be a tour of a farm or ranch, a festival, or a cheese-making class. Farmers, ranchers and wineries turn their land into a destination and open their doors to the public in order to teach more about what they do.

VIRTUAL TOURISM
Virtual tourism offers the ability to take a virtual tour of an attraction from home. The combination of videos and still images with multimedia, such as narration, music, and sound effects offers an immersive experience for the user. While it’s impossible to completely replicate the experience of immersing yourself in a new location 24 hours a day, VR offers the ability to preview a destination before booking a trip.

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Cluj-Napoca City Center

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Tarnita lake

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Share pictures/ videos of three landmarks from your region

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Share pictures/ videos of three landmarks from your region

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Turda Gorges