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Stated preference microsimulation models from qualitative inputs to estimate market shares in intercity travel

This paper describes a recently developed method for predicting market shares of products in a competitive market from qualitative judgements of a small sample of respondents. This "conjoint choice approach" is an extension of traditional conjoint...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Michael Beswick, Robert J. Sheldon, Eric P. Kroes

June 15, 1986

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

The Delphi approach

In recent years, the Delphi technique has become one of the most widely used qualitative forecasting approaches. However, relatively little has been written about the validity of the situational factors which are likely to influence the outcome of a...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Authors: L. K. Parkinson, Stephen T. Parkinson

June 15, 1984

Danes' attitudes to Norway as a holiday resort

The main purpose of the study on which this paper is based is to investigate the Danes' attitudes and behaviour to Norway as a holiday resort (summer and winter respectively). The main purpose of this paper is partly to present some of the main...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Authors: Knut J. Tallhaug, Nils Röhme

June 15, 1983

More family in your holiday

There is no doubt that children play an important role in the tourism process. It is often the children who influence their parents' decision regarding the vacation. They are also the ones who make a return to the same place more likely, if they have...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Author: Schimun Murk

June 15, 1983

The effects of violence on the tourism potential of Northern Ireland as measured by market research

The 1969 saw the beginning of the civil disturbances which, as we all now know, were to escalate far beyond anything that could have been imagined back in those days of relative innocence. The small down- turn in visitors in that year coincided with...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Authors: Ian G. Henderson, Cathal Mullaghan

June 15, 1983

Greek tourism in the 1980s widening the market

This paper attempts to explain the thinking behind Aspect Advertising's decision to advertise the attractions of Greece as a tourist destination by using Posters at "off-peak" times of year rather than what had been the previous practice - to support...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Author: Dan O'Donoghue

June 15, 1983

Choosing a country for a holiday

This paper sets out to examine the process by which people select the country in which they spend their holiday. While price and accessibility are important determinants of a country's popularity they are no more than first hurdles in the race for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Authors: Christine Gray, Marion Herbert

June 15, 1983