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state travel office: an official government agency or
privately run, non-profit organization responsible for
travel development and promotion of a state or province

State: 'The state' is a set of officials with their own
preferences and capacities to effect public policy, or in
more structural terms a relatively permanent set of
political institutions operating in relation to civil society'
(Nordlinger 1981, in Hall and Jenkins 1995). The state
includes elected politicians, interest or pressure groups,

law enforcement agencies, the bureaucracy, and a plethora
of rules, regulations, laws, conventions and policies.

Statute: The law as made by parliament, e.g. in the UK,
the Disability Discrimination Act (1995). A statute is
made up of many parts called 'sections' or 'provisions'.

Statutory instrument: The vast majority of delegated
legislation in the UK is in the form of statutory instruments
governed by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946

step-on guide: an independent guide who comes aboard a
motorcoach to give an informed overview of the city or
attraction to be toured

Strategic information systems: Systems designed to

support the strategic management decision processes and
implementation.

Strategy pyramid: A visual way of representing the
different levels of the strategy conceptualisation and
implementation process. The most general assumptions

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