Universities spend almost $2 billion subsidizing their collegiate sports programs. Even the mostpopular women’s sport, basketball, fails to break even. An application of Becker’s theory ofcustomer discrimination is used to calculate the relative preference for men’s basketball for bothmen...

Die Qualität einer Dienstleistung vor der Inanspruchnahme zu beurteilen, ist für Kunden nicht leicht. Dieser Beitrag untersucht mögliche Qualitätsindikatoren von Reitschulen in Deutschland und versucht, Qualitätsunterschiede zwischen Reitschulen herauszufinden. Die Daten für die...

Multimediale Besucherleit- und Informationssysteme, sogenannte eGuides, spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle für Besucherinnen und Besucher von Sehenswürdigkeiten und Ausstellungen. Das EU- Projekt "BalticMuseums 2.0 Plus" befasst sich mit der Einführung von eGuide-Systemen in Meeresmuseen...

This study examines the willingness-to-pay (WTP) and the willingness-to-work (WTW) of German riding club members for an overall quality improvement. Therefore, German riding club members were asked via an online questionnaire. As far as the author knows, this study is the first to include the...

Multimediale Informations- und Führungssysteme in Kultur und Freizeit spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle für Besucher von Sehenswürdigkeiten und Ausstellungen. Derartige Systeme können als Weiterentwicklung von herkömmlichen Audioguides ihre Nutzer bei der Orientierung im...

Several industries come up with a long experience with eco labeling schemes. Therefore the question arises: Which features contributed to their success or non-success in terms of market penetration, customer recognition and premium prices achieved? Which features could be adapted in order to...

The social media phenomenon has provided tremendous opportunities for self-promotion. From global pop star, Psy, reaching over 1.2 billion YouTube viewers (as of this writing) with his smash hit, “Gangnam Style” to recent college graduates “getting themselves out there” in the job market...

The Indian Premier League - IPL launched in 2008 has achieved a very high level of popularity with more than 140 million TV audiences and a brand valuation of more than 4 billion USD. The high publicity and glamour filled, franchisee owned cricketing event has also seen unprecedented money paid...

Innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) in recent decades have had profound implications for tourism services, promotion, or distribution. We apply a Structural Equations Model (SEM) to analyse the relationships between the characteristics of tourists visiting Amsterdam,...