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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

Survey research techniques in spatial and economic planning in an Arab context

This paper presents the broad data requirements and the concomitant research tools needed for spatial and economic planning in the context of an Arab metropolis. It then stresses the need for creating a programme of research which continually updates...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Nicos Rossides

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1987

Methodological problems associated with multidisciplinary research concerning international construction industries with particular reference to the Middle East countries

The aim of this paper is to examine some of the methodological problems associated with multidisciplinary research in international construction firms and to make recommendations about how such problems can be alleviated. This paper gives an insight...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Adnan Enshassi

June 15, 1987

Introduction

This section, as in earlier editions, concentrates on marketing research techniques. While the section is aimed principally at practitioners and students of market research, it may also prove useful to the market research user as a guide to the...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: Robert M. Worcester

August 1, 1986

Highly developed research in less developed countries

The paper identifies a trend towards greater sophistication of research in the developing world, and considers how some of the practical issues posed by Third World markets - diversity, religion, culture, language and literacy, sampling problems and...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: David N. Aldridge

June 15, 1984

How can we relate European standards to research in the Middle East?

The main objective of this paper, therefore, is to show through a series of examples and specific applications how the Middle East Marketing Research Bureau has applied and adapted modern market research techniques and standards across the whole...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: George V. Vassiliou

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1984

Quality control and standards in different countries in the context of multinational surveys

This paper consists of two parts - in the first part Vincent Ophoff, Managing Director of NSS and President of the IRIS network, describes the "process control" necessary for successful design and management of multinational surveys. In the second,...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Authors: Vincent F.W. Ophoff, Jane Kalim

June 15, 1984

Information technology bypasses boundaries

At this moment centralised international data collection via telephone is the most dominant form. Since it first started hesitantly in Europe about five years ago, enough experience has now been gathered to evaluate its benefits, its complications,...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: Emile M. C. van Westerhoven

June 15, 1984

New magazines

This paper describes some practical marketing research techniques, used by VNU (United Dutch Publishing Companies) in order to indicate in a reasonably adequate and reliable way the market possibilities of a new magazine. Based on the results of this...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: New Developments In Media Research

Author: John Rodenburg

November 2, 1983