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Evaluating tourism at a 'last frontier'

This paper describes the first comprehensive survey of travel conducted in the Northern Territory of Australia. As with many countries with small populations but many features of national and historical interest to travellers, tourism is very...

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

Authors: David T. Bottomley, George Rennie

June 15, 1983

The patient's input

A number of changes in society, technology and the way people use health care facilities, are leading to a greater recognition of the strong influence patient decision making can have on the fortunes of the industry. Examples are quoted to illustrate...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Information For Decision Making In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: Philip D. Barnard

June 15, 1983

Dial +613 612.145 for Australian tourist information

Australian tourist information, from four separate surveys, is being assembled on disc on interactive computers in Melbourne and New York. It can be accessed with the IMS computer programs, which allow you not only to reproduce tables already formed,...

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

Author: Roy Morgan

Company: Roy Morgan Research Pty Ltd

June 15, 1983

Comparative industrial buying patterns in high level economies

Despite the fact that well over 1000 articles appeared on industrial purchasing in the past two decades, relatively little progress has been made toward understanding and predicting buyer behaviour patterns. The key reason for this phenomenon, in our...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Peter M. Banting, David Ford, Andrew C. Gross, George Holmes

June 15, 1983

The role of research in strategic planning for a multi-national pharmaceutical company

The main aim of this paper is to focus on the role of research in strategic planning for a drug company, taking a particular programme of surveys amongst doctors as an example of the contribution which research can make.

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Author: David S. Mitchell

June 15, 1983

The development of a financial panel and its contribution to financial marketing

A panel approach was adopted by AGB to solve this research information problem. The paper outlines the pilot stage of the Index panel and describes how this pilot led to major modifications both to the data collection processes and the data...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: John F. Swift, John English

June 15, 1983

Reliability and sensitivity of research surveys

Elements of the design and operation of large scale surveys introduce sources of error not adequately dealt with in normal textbook formulae. Nevertheless, it is often possible by comparing the results of replicated surveys to arrive at objective and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Norman L. Webb

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1983

Marketing long haul holidays to Australia

This paper is concerned with the use of market research to adjust the marketing stance of the Australian Tourist Commission in the light of changing conditions in their main European markets, so that the appeal of Australia is maximised as a long...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Authors: John Goldsworthy, Chris Friend, Judy Morrell

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

June 15, 1982

A new approach in audience measurement for print media

In our continuous Australia-wide Readership Survey, we interview about 26000 people each year. Each month two different cross-sections, each of about 1100 people, are interviewed. For dailies, weeklies and monthlies, different economical and quick...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Author: Roy Morgan

Company: Roy Morgan Research Pty Ltd

June 15, 1982