An attention on leisure consciousness and related activities by Taiwan people also signifies an enhanced standard on service quality and demand satisfaction of tourism and leisure industry, in which a perception of customer satisfaction perceived by consumers in terms of appraisal dimension and measurement was gradually replaced by intangible accommodation experience or personalized service by ...

The tourism industry is characterized by severe shifts in demand that play havoc with forecasting future investment. Within the tourism industry, the need for large-scale initial capital investment in the hotel sector, make the latter particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of the tourism market. Given an up-turn in demand, the hotel industry cannot always respond immediately and its' response ...

since tourism revenues play an important role in the economic performance of national economies, specifying factors affecting it and examination of demand for tourism have economic significance . a partial adjustment model of short run and long run demand for tourism short run and long run demand for tourism has been specified. the period of study is 1331-88 and the estimation method is ols. th...

The purpose – Accurately forecasting the demand for international health tourism is important to newly-emerging markets in the world. The aim of this study was presents a more suitable and accurate model for forecasting the demand for health tourism that should be more theoretically useful. Design – Applying GM(1,1) with adaptive levels of α (hereafter GM(1,1)-α model) to provide a concise pred...

The exchange of semantically consistent service descriptions is an important issue for flexible integration facilities for electronic commerce. Currently there is a lack of semantic consistency on the Web, burdening arbitrary market relationships. Several standardization initiatives have addressed this issue before, but nonetheless, the setup and maintenance costs have been too high. Furthermor...

Long-run tourism demand elasticities are important policy indicators for tourism product providers. Past tourism demand studies have mainly focused on the point estimates of demand elasticities. Although such estimates have some policymaking value, their information content is limited, as their associated sampling variability is unknown. Moreover, point estimates and their standard errors may b...