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Diffusion of Sustainability Innovations around Lynedoch EcoVillage
Stüwe, Claudia - 2009
In form of a qualitative single case study this thesis examines what people from industrialized countries such as Germany can learn about sustainability from Lynedoch EcoVillage, South Africa, and the associated 'Sustainability Institute', a non-profit trust based at and operating from Lynedoch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461026
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The influence of the marketing concept on company performance with specific reference to customer services within the travel agency industry in the Western Cape
Roberts-Lombard, Mornay - 2001
Companies operating in the service industry must take note of three important marketing tasks. The first of these tasks is that companies should realise that they must provide the market with a variety of products. Businesses should therefore furnish the market with a diversified product range....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447185
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The employment of Virtual Reality in tourism-oriented online communication: an economics of information perspective
Herstell, Jan - 2008
rasantes Wachstum erfahren und dazu geführt, dass im Bereich des internetbasierten Tourismus eine besonders ausgeprägte … Virtual Reality (VR) im Tourismus die Ausnahme und wird damit nicht gezielt genutzt, um Informationen dreidimensional und … transformieren und die nachfragerseitige Bedeutung der Vertrauenseigenschaften mindern kann. Somit kann in der im Tourismus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467439
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Tourism, Climate Change and the Coastal Zone
Hamilton, Jacqueline Margaret - 2005
pattern of tourism demand. Despite the cultural and economic importance of tourism and its overwhelming dependence on climatic … factors, relatively few studies have tackled the impact of climate change on tourism. In particular there are few quantitative … studies on the effect that climate change will have on tourism. The aim of this thesis is to fill the research gap and so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449713
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The management structure for research in the RSA, with a proposed management model for medical faculties
Brink A.J.; Slabbert B.R. - 1985
Government accepts responsibility for stimulating and supporting research and development for the welfare of the entire community. Research is therefore a matter of serious concern which should be approached with the greatest degree of responsibility by those trained and qualified to engage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480472
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Consumer-based brand equity for Australia as a long haul tourism destination in an emerging market
Pike, Steven D.; Bianchi, Constanza; Kerr, Gayle F.; … - 2010
Purpose: Although the branding literature emerged during the 1940s, research relating to tourism destination branding … tourists in Chile, which reflects the lower priority the South American market has been given by the national tourism office …-branding literature by being one of the first to test the efficacy of a model of consumer-based brand equity for a tourism destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483521
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Destination brand equity among the host community : a potential source of comparative advantage for DMOs
Pike, Steven; Scott, Noel - 2009
equity (CBBE) for a destination, from the perspective of residents as active participants of local tourism. It is proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483559
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Multiproject baselines for evaluation of electric power projects
Sathaye, Jayant; Murtishaw, Scott; Price, Lynn; … - 2008
Calculating greenhouse gas emissions reductions from climate change mitigation projects requires construction of a baseline that sets emissions levels that would have occurred without the project. This paper describes a standardized multiproject methodology for setting baselines, represented by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436192
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Effect of market structure on international coal trade
Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009
This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437106
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438868