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Comment on G.K. Randall and J. A. Farmer's paper

We do not envisage the use of linear programming as the speaker himself says that the model is not made to find an optimum solution, but rather the exploration of the consequences of different decisions, assumptions or events. Linear programming...

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Operational Research In Marketing

Author: Pierre Cavalieros

November 1, 1968

Comment on session I

Group 1 spent sometime discussing the LP Model of Profit in the paper by Randall and Farmer, and eventually decided it was precisely what it said it was.

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Operational Research In Marketing

Author: John Davis

November 1, 1968

Developing a model of the package holiday market

In the present state of the art of econometrics, it is not possible to quantify or validate the relationships sketched at the macro level. Data on certain of the other relationships point in certain directions and so we have some knowledge of how one...

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Operational Research In Marketing

Authors: G. K. Randall, J. A. Farmer

November 1, 1968

Comment on G. K. Randall and J. F. Farmer's paper

This paper was presented and seen as two parts: a broad and intriguing first part followed by a highly specific sub-model. The group was not concerned to make spontaneous suggestions as to the treatment of the open ended topics in the first part but...

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Operational Research In Marketing

Author: Charles W. Clunies-Ross

November 1, 1968

Copy research on holiday abroad

The paper deals with a large scale study on international travel. Although the results have not been tabulated yet, we did a preliminary analysis of the response to a question, addressed to a couple of hundred Britons who had been abroad on holiday...

Catalogue: Seminar 1967: Travel and Tourism

Authors: Howard Biggs, M Collins

November 23, 1967

A market segmentation on holidays abroad

During the past two decades an every year increasing part of the Dutch population went abroad on holiday. To indicate how this overall growth of the market for holidays abroad has developed, we show some figures from representative NIPO sample...

Catalogue: Seminar 1967: Travel and Tourism

Authors: Ger C. Schild, Jacques Antoine

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1967

Researching in the market for accommodation

The need for more accommodation does not, however, mean the creation of just any accommodation anywhere. It means the provision of sufficient accommodation of the right type in the right place. The extent and type of additional capacity required may...

Catalogue: Seminar 1967: Travel and Tourism

Authors: Bryan E. Atkin, Jacques Antoine

June 15, 1967

Research among travel agents

"Retailer" research among travel agents is much-practised but rarely published except in the form of promotional references. This paper takes the opportunity of quoting from two fully published enquiries (albeit old ones) to examine the field, since...

Catalogue: Seminar 1967: Travel and Tourism

Author: A. D. Wilson

June 15, 1967

The motivation and fears of flight

I am going to report to you on some of the central results of a multi-country psychological study on flight motivation and behaviour. Since it turned out that the phenomenon of fear plays one of the most important and, if I may say, also the most...

Catalogue: Seminar 1967: Travel and Tourism

Author: Ferenc Schuch

June 15, 1967