Evelyn O. Velasco-Dula

Tourism helps improve the quality of life in destinations when services are provided or improved (Matarrita-Castante 2009; Faulkner & Tideswell 1997). Employment generation is one of the desired effects of tourism for most governments. Quality of life (QOL) means a good life and we believe that a good life is the same as living a life with a high quality. This research aims to explore the (1) extent of Virtual Casino Dealers’ perception in quality of work life and (2) obstacles and other needs of improvements in developing the Virtual Casino Dealers’ quality of work life in Metro Manila. This study was explorative and descriptive with a qualitative approach through a purposive sampling and composed of four key informants. A semi-structured interview with open-ended questions and content analysis was utilized to understand informants’ perceptions as well as their experiences. The study manifested the following themes obtained from the key informant respectively. (1) Increased well-being; (2) Reduced vulnerability; and (3) Limited opportunity to develop human capacities. Therefore, the researcher recommends this study as one of the bases to both public and private sectors in the formulation of Tourism Enterprise Employment regulations related to Virtual or Online Casino based in the Philippines for the holistic innovations and for the welfare of the stakeholders.

Keywords: Virtual Casino Dealer, Online Casino, Quality of work life, Qualitative content analysis

Virtual tours make a property stand out among online listings. Home buyers, especially those relocating a considerable distance, prefer the convenience of an available virtual tour that allows them to experience a property without making extra visits—and in many cases, prompts them to schedule a showing. The effectiveness of a real estate virtual tour depends largely on the quality of the tour itself. Stunning, high definition virtual tours that offer great images and video of the property, along with additional details such as floor plans, MLS data, and links to further resources, provide an immersive experience for property buyers. Great virtual tours will engage viewers further with features like background music, narration, 360-degree interactive panoramic images, and more.Virtual tours are an innovative trend that is expanding too many new businesses. What started out as a way to promote museums, universities, real estate business and others, has now moved into the hotelier business. Virtual tours now comprise a vital piece of the Sales puzzle, as they are highly accountable for a significant amount of conversion rates. And now Google’s virtual tours hotels can “showcase all the details that your customers love”, easily convincing them to book a stay at resort/hotel.In recent generation most of the traveler seeks something new to try, The selected resorts in the Philippines such as Discovery shores, Red Coconut in Boracay, Cross Wind in Tagaytay and Shercon resort in Lipa City Batangas offers a new marketing strategy to their resort using the 360 virtual tour application to promote and advertise. The researchers study and proved the effectiveness of the 360 virtual tour application as a marketing strategy to the resort and also to the customer perceptions. It is focused to provide deeper insight of 360 virtual tour application as an effective marketing strategy for the selected resorts in the Philippines today. The researchers analyzed and interpreted the findings of the study and according to findings based on the gathered data, the proponents therefore conclude the following; the over-all mean results according to the factors affecting customers perceptions using virtual tour, 4.51 in terms of accessibility which is interpreted as strongly agree, 4.56 in terms of features which is interpreted as strongly agree, 4.50 in terms of assurance which is interpreted as agree and lastly, 4.55 in terms of promotional effectiveness using virtual tour which is interpreted as strongly agree. Therefore, the Accessibility has not affected the dependent variable with a P-value of 0.66 which is accepted and only the Features and Assurance with the same P-value of 0.00 is the significant indicators of thr dependent variable which the null hypothesis is rejected.

The impact and awareness of sustainable practices among major industries around the world has increased tenfold. This issue produces the constant pleas of scientist and environmental groups to every human being around the world that are time within earth is coming to an end. The implementation of these said sustainable practices have been implemented between most major cruise lines around the world and has been a major guide for CLIA (Cruise Line International Association) to enforce sustainable and green cruising during their times at sea. Implementation of green practices and management reputation have been used as factors to determine customers satisfaction to achieve sustainable cruising. 90 Respondents from Asia, Caribbean and South America have been assessed with the use of 4 – Point Likert Scale via virtual survey questionnaires. The survey questionnaire determined how much does green practices, cruise reputation and passenger’s satisfaction to achieve sustainable cruise services. From the data gathered from online surveys that majority of respondents agree that implementations of green practices and support from cruise managements resulted in more satisfied passengers. This result shows that passengers support implementations of sustainable practices aboard ship and thus bring more income to cruise management and implement more sustainable practices towards plenty more of their cruise ships. The support from majority of passengers towards sustainable practices can garner more awareness and push more cruise lines to implement green practices. This factor can overall achieve Green Cruising and Sustainable Cruise Services sustainable cruising around the world and also reach other hospitality and tourism industries. Keywords: Green Curising, Sustainable initiatives, Cruise management reputation