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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

Qualitative research and travel publication design

The purpose of this paper is to explore ways in which qualitative research techniques, both group discussions and depth interviews, can be used to assist in the design of a range of different publications in the travel and tourism industries, the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: Mark Hodgson

November 25, 1987

Conjoint analysis of consumer preferences toward purchasing competing services

A general model of consumer brand awareness, preference, and choice is presented in the first part of the paper. The model is applied to learn the destinations competing with Tirol, Austria, for 1988 winter holiday visitors. Open-ended unaided...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Authors: Hans Mühlbacher, Arch G. Woodside

October 26, 1987

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