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1. What considerations would you employ when forecasting demand in a city that depends on tourism? Please use examples to reinforce your points.

2. What quality management tools can be used to determine product or service demand in operations?

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1. What considerations would you employ when forecasting demand in a city that depends on tourism? Please use examples to reinforce your points.
Issues: i. City that depends on tourism, seasonality is the most important factor. For example during summer number of tourists at hill stations is expected to rise suddenly and will continue for entire summer and then plummet. Similarly beaches are expected to see rise in tourists ...

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