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Tourism and environmental crises

The paper illustrates and discusses the impact of an environmental crisis the appearance of an algal blooms in the Adriatic sea during the summer of 1989 on tourist attitudes and behaviours. The tourism basin involved Italy's Emilia-Romagna...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Travel And Tourism Transition

Authors: Giancarlo Gasperoni, Stefano Dall’Aglio

June 15, 1991

A review of the challenges facing travel researchers

Research into travel and tourism probably only accounts for 5% of the research industry's total turnover in spite of the fact that leisure is the world's largest industry (in many European countries tourism is the major revenue earner). This reflects...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Travel And Tourism Transition

Author: Peter B. Hodgson

June 15, 1991

Strategic target-group research: A new perspective for users

The task and objectives we set ourselves, and which brought us to SINUS, can be described as follows: 1. Identification of the existing market segments, along with the potential demand in the business and private flight market which is relevant for...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Authors: Michael Grande, Ulrich Becker

Company: SINUS Markt- und Sozialforschung GmbH

September 1, 1990

Strategic target-group research: A new perspective for users (German)

The task and objectives we set ourselves, and which brought us to SINUS, can be described as follows: 1. Identification of the existing market segments, along with the potential demand in the business and private flight market which is relevant for...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Authors: Michael Grande, Ulrich Becker

Company: SINUS Markt- und Sozialforschung GmbH

September 1, 1990

A major research exercise identifying and quantifying relevant consumer groups in over 60's market: The hotel industry

Although the marketing world claims to have woken up to 'grey power' our experience suggests that much of the thinking behind propositions aimed at older people is still founded on cliche and misconception. We formed this view in the course of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Mia Bartonova, Ruth Betts, John Martindale

June 15, 1989

Market research for resort/recreation planning in Saudi Arabia

This paper collates the results of recent market research which has been fed into the formulation of physical plans for several proposed holiday resorts and other leisure facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This research entailed both...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Travel And Tourism Research

Authors: Nicos Rossides, Christos Eliades

Company: MEMRB

May 4, 1988

Understanding the hotel guest

The paper reveals the importance of the individual business traveller as the hotel choice decision maker; the 'satisfier' nature of hotel buying with guests' aiming to minimise the risks they take when buying a hotel room; the strong influence of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Travel And Tourism Research

Author: Crispian Tarrant

April 5, 1988

The uncommitted tourist

This paper describes a model that has been designed to give tour operators insight into: - the number of tourists taking a foreign holiday the coming summer; - the countries they will be going to; - the extent to which they will use tour operators....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Ted Vonk, Theo Hess

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1986

International delusions

The observations in this paper relate especially but not only to one massive international tourism survey. In a period of six months, that survey required eight market research companies to work closely together to find appropriate respondents....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: David T. Bottomley

June 15, 1985