Perceptions of Power Within a Membership-based Seniors' Community Center

As opportunities for citizenship diminish in everyday life amid increasing consumption and privatization, there is a growing realization of the importance of participation and citizen power, particularly for older adults. Gaventa's (1980) Gaventa, J. (1980). Power and powerlessness: Quiescence and rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. [Google Scholar] concepts of visible, invisible, and hidden power and Arnstein's ladder of citizen power (1969) framed this study, which used participatory methods, including creation and facilitation of a members' group at a small seniors' center, to address the question: What are the factors that undermine or cultivate citizen power at a small community center for seniors? The data were organized under three power-related themes: powerlessness, reluctance to claim power, and claiming power. Findings suggest that negative social constructions associated with aging act as instruments of invisible power. Further, community center membership, to be considered meaningful, should be imbued with visible power, so that seniors can be involved in decision making and leadership.     

少数民族社区旅游的舞台化特征研究——以云南若干村镇为例

云南民族众多、人文和自然景观富饶,少数民族社区旅游发展起步较早,发展较成熟,在长期发展过程中,呈现出了明显的舞台化特征.在考察了大理古城、周城,丽江束河古镇,香格里拉霞给村,西双版纳傣族园等较为典型的旅游村镇的基础上,归纳认为少数民族社区旅游的舞台化特征主要体现在3个方面:社区旅游圈、东道主行为前台化和民俗节事舞台化.这种舞台化有利于少数民族传统村镇在空间特质和精神特质上的分区保护;有利于提高居民参与社区旅游发展的参与意识和传统文化意识;有利于游客在有限的时空范围内体验少数民族的风土人情.     

旅游管理研究生综合素质培养思路探讨

面对目前旅游管理研究生就业难的现象,分析当前旅游管理研究生培养中存在的问题和原因,有针对性地从教育方法、教学内容等方面提出一些合理化建议,以促进旅游管理研究生综合素质的提高。     

加强系统培训,提高入境旅游接待水平——发展浙江入境旅游对策之一

本文以中国入境旅游发展成就与问题并存为大背景,在对浙江省入境旅游发展与人才供求现状分析基础上,提出了加强系统培训,提高入境旅游接待水平的对策,从政府、学校、企业、语言培训和培训模式等5 个方面进行了比较详尽的阐述,期望有助于提高浙江省入境旅游接待质量,发展入境旅游事业。     

基于DEA的投资基金业绩分析

由于传统投资基金业绩评估方法的局限性,将数据包络分析(DEA)作为工具,建立一种投资基金业绩评估模型。意在研究基金起点基本相同和系统风险相同的前提下基金的运转效率,选取2002年成立的10家开放式投资基金作为实例,分别对他们的投入,产出和经营业绩进行分析和比较。目的是考察基金的经营效率差异及分析其中原因,以挖掘提高基金管理业绩的潜力。     

我国科技成果市场化营销模式研究

技术市场是我国科技成果市场化的主要途径,但是由于被动的管理体制,阻碍了我国技术成果市场化的效率。基于技术交易的本质是市场化运作这一认识,提出科技成果市场化营销的概念,并分析我国技术成果市场化营销的模式,为我国科研单位进行科学研究和技术成果市场化提供科学决策的依据。     

What can big data and text analytics tell us about hotel guest experience and satisfaction?

The tremendous growth of social media and consumer-generated content on the Internet has inspired the development of the so-called big data analytics to understand and solve real-life problems. However, while a handful of studies have employed new data sources to tackle important research problems in hospitality, there has not been a systematic application of big data analytic techniques in these studies. This study aims to explore and demonstrate the utility of big data analytics to better understand important hospitality issues, namely the relationship between hotel guest experience and satisfaction. Specifically, this study applies a text analytical approach to a large quantity of consumer reviews extracted from Expedia.com to deconstruct hotel guest experience and examine its association with satisfaction ratings. The findings reveal several dimensions of guest experience that carried varying weights and, more importantly, have novel, meaningful semantic compositions. The association between guest experience and satisfaction appears strong, suggesting that these two domains of consumer behavior are inherently connected. This study reveals that big data analytics can generate new insights into variables that have been extensively studied in existing hospitality literature. In addition, implications for theory and practice as well as directions for future research are discussed.     

An Investigation of Market Orientation (MO) and Tourism Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ (SMEs) Performance in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature

This paper aims to build a structured literature review of the field of market orientation and its impact on tourism small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) performance in developing countries. This literature review will present a comprehensive survey of market orientation (MO) published articles to facilitate good understanding of MO. It serves as an archive and aims to help the scholars and practitioners to explore, analyse, and develop a clear understanding about the different research points and methodologies implemented in previous studies related to MO and its impact on tourism SMEs’ performance. The paper systematically reviews and categorizes the published literature implementing a three-stage methodology, and thereafter analyzes and reviews this literature methodologically. The review covered many areas and identified some factors that drive/hinder market-oriented activities within tourism SMEs. Furthermore, suggestions have been made to understand more thoroughly how market orientation influences tourism SMEs performance in developing economies. A research gap in the area of market orientation and tourism SMEs performance in developing countries was identified. The study provides great benefits for owner-managers, government policy makers, scholars, and educators by clarifying the concept of market orientation and its relationship with performance in the context of tourism SMEs.     

中国近代物流业的兴起及其特征——与英国近代物流业兴起的比较分析

本文认为,物流业在近代发展中起着重要的作用,一方面是通过完成地区间的商品流通实现商品的价值增值,降低社会成本;另一方面,作为主导产业拉动就业增长。但是由于中国特殊的市场经济发展过程,中国物流业和其他产业的发展顺序与自然发展起来的市场经济国家有所不同,呈现先近代物流业、后其他近代工业的发展路径。英国作为自然发展起来的市场经济国家,在工业革命过程中形成了比较完整的产业部门,社会产品和国内外贸易迅速增加,物流业的发展既有技术支持,又有贸易需求支持,近代物流业产生了。中国近代物流业是在外国贸易冲击下产生的,但是中国并没有利用这个机会大力发展物流业,以大流通促进商品经济的大发展。同时,中国自身发展近代物流业的物质技术条件不完善,不能有效地形成加速经济发展的产业链。这种特征决定了中国物流业对经济增长的作用得不到充分发挥。     

防范国际贸易融资风险的对策分析

随着我国对外贸易发展和银行业竞争的加剧,国际贸易融资已经成为商业银行重点发展的一项金融业务。该业务不仅为进出口企业提供了融资便利,也拓展了银行业务,在经济全球化浪潮中贸易融资已被广泛培植为国际性商业银行的效益新增点。然而在贸易融资实践中也时刻潜伏着各种风险,若把握不好,进出口企业的贸易风险就会直接转嫁到银行身上。如何防范和控制贸易融资业务的风险成为银行拓展业务亟待解决的问题。尤其是在不断开发贸易融资创新业务的今天,这一问题显得尤为重要。本文着重分析银行在国际贸易融资过程中遇到的各种风险,探究有效控制和防范贸易融资潜在风险的对策,以推动贸易融资业务的发展与创新。