Evaluation of Hotels to Accommodate Disabled Visitors

ABSTRACT

The study presents an initial investigation result of the disabled consumer group. The research aims to highlight deficiencies in existing provision and helps hoteliers to understand best practices for disabled guests and makes suggestions for implementation. The research studies the five star hotels in Cairo. While disability covers a wide range of quite different impairments, the study concentrates on wheelchair users. The findings of the research will help hoteliers to maximize business from this valuable market, develop best practices through a greater understanding of disabled people, and implement policies and strategies to attract the market. By providing the right facilities and services with appropriate communications, hotels can inform and encourage the disabled to use the facilities and services that were developed for them.     

The influence of colour on visual search times in cluttered environments

Fifty subjects participated in a series of visual search tasks where the aim was to explore the influence of colour on visual search times for targets situated in a series of cluttered distractor fields. The results supported previous findings regarding the effect of colour and showed that, even in cluttered environments, certain hues helped in the reduction of search times. The findings also indicated that there were interaction effects between the colour and positioning of the targets in the distractor fields.     

Accessibility improvement,territorial cohesion and spillovers: a multidimensional evaluation of two motorway sections in Poland

The aim of this paper is to contribute to previous methodological studies of the approach to potential accessibility used in the evaluation of development of the road network. This is done by making a threefold analysis, which combines the overall improvement in the level of accessibility, territorial cohesion, and spatial spillovers. Moreover, we use different spatial dimensions (namely national and international) and different distance decay parameters to estimate both the short trips (e.g. commuting) and the long trips (e.g. business trips or tourism). The results are presented at a very detailed spatial scale (i.e. municipalities – LAU-2 units).The paper provides empirical evidence of improvement in accessibility, changes in the degree of territorial cohesion, and spatial spillovers resulting from the recent completion of two sections of motorway in Poland. The selected case studies differ according to their location (i.e. national and European, peripheral vs. central location), population density, and the settlement structure around the investment.The validity of the proposed multidimensional approach to the evaluation of road investments is verified as the combination of different accessibility dimensions and leads to results which differ respecting efficiency, equity and spillover effects. This paper provides arguments to strengthen the need for the tailor-made parameters of potential accessibility indicator and spatial dimension of analysis. They should be adjusted to the main aim of the particular evaluation.     

Social exclusion, location and transport disadvantage amongst non-driving seniors in a Melbourne municipality, Australia

Over the past decade, researchers have refocused their attention upon the interconnection between locationally disadvantaged communities and poor transport services in order to better understand social exclusion. Limited access to private and public transport has often been identified as a major contributing factor to social isolation and economic poverty that certain groups in the community experience. To date, an insufficient amount of research attention has focused on the elderly or seniors, who are often identified as being subject to social exclusion because of difficulties associated with travelling outside their homes to access services and facilities especially for non-car drivers. Moreover, a disproportionate amount of research undertaken on transport related forms of social exclusion in Australia has understandably looked towards the outskirts of its major urban centres, where services and facilities are sparsely located and generally only accessible by car. This paper provides a different insight by analysing a middle distant municipality where large spatial concentrations of seniors are to be found, some of whom do not have ready access to a car or have difficulty accessing the public bus service. Using a variety of data sources for a municipality in Melbourne, this case study reveals that social exclusion of non-car driving seniors is reinforced by a regional public transport system that cannot adequately service the entire municipality. For now, the incidence of locational and transport related disadvantage is restricted to small pockets of the municipality, but as seniors age and surrender their car driving licences this problem could become more serious. The study concludes by calling for more analyses to be undertaken into transport engendered social exclusion if this problem is to be contained as the post-war baby-boomers generation ages across most of the middle suburbs of Australian cities.     

视觉霸权笼罩下的舞蹈

本文通过分析因信息接收方式的变革而产生的视觉霸权与舞蹈发展过程中的诸多碰撞,从而归纳出视觉霸权主义对舞蹈自身发展影响的五个方面即:舞蹈群众性参与的属性逐渐流失,专业化氛围的抽离;舞蹈深层表达的逐渐淡化,外在表现的逐渐强化;舞蹈创作主体意识的削弱,被动性增强;纯粹性的舞蹈审美日益多元化;促进舞蹈专业人士的不断反思和尝试。文章旨在思考和审视中开拓舞蹈前进之路,在探索与追问中谋求自身的发展。     

内部控制核心内涵的历史演变及其评述

内部控制在其百余年的发展进程中,取得了丰富的研究成果,但也存在着潜在的缺陷。追溯内部控制理论的历史发展轨迹,探析其历史发展各阶段的理论形成过程、主要推动因素、核心内涵演变,有助于对内部控制发展历程进行全方位审视,从而提炼其理论研究成果,分析其存在的局限,为拓展内部控制研究路径奠定文献基础。     

基于区域可达性定量模型的新疆出口加工贸易基地选择研究

在加工贸易区或加工贸易基地选择研究方面，学界主要集中在基于因子分析方法的投资环境视角的研究上。文章采用另一种方法——区域可达性定量模型，对新疆主要中心城市和口岸城市的区域可达性进行计算，并按区域可达性大小排序。在国家实施东部地区产业转移的政策环境下，文章结合新疆特色加工产业群，对新疆加工贸易的发展和区域空间结构布局调整做了初步思考。     

Identifying an Advertisement Presenter's Tribe

ABSTRACT

In African countries it is generally important to identify another person's tribe when meeting that person for the first time. A similar process of identification also seems to take place when a consumer sees a presenter in an advertisement. This paper identifies the cues that are used in tribal identification, demonstrates that multiple cues are employed, and shows that nonvisual cues are generally more important than visual ones. It also finds that audience members notice a presenter's tribe more frequently in advertisements appearing on television than in those appearing in print or outdoor media. The managerial implications of these findings are discussed.     

谈服装品牌中的视觉营销策略研究

一直以来,视觉营销仅仅被作为市场营销层面上一部分销售技术的总和。而在品牌竞争日趋激烈的今天,顾客的注意力就是企业的效益。视觉营销不再只被作为一种实用的技巧,而是被看作一项重要的营销策略、一个完整的系统工程,贯穿品牌整个运作过程的始终。视觉营销策略作为企业有效竞争力,已经成为服装品牌企业在新竞争环境下的新的营销战略思想。     

中国青少年生殖健康可及性调查基础数据报告

目的是了解中国未婚青少年性与生殖健康的知识、态度和行为现状,评价青少年性与生殖健康服务的可得性与可及性,为改善青少年的性与生殖健康可及性提供政策支持。利用分层和概率比例规模抽样相结合的四阶段混合的抽样方法,用结构化问卷对15-24岁未婚青少年的三类子总体进行匿名一对一面访式调查。青少年整体缺乏全面正确的生殖健康知识,22.4%的青少年具有性经历。首次和最近一次性行为中,未采取任何避孕措施的比例分别为51.2%和21.4%。在有性经历的女性青少年中,怀孕率为21.3%,多次怀孕率为4.9%。书/杂志、同学/朋友、学校老师、网络以及电影/电视是青少年生殖健康知识的五大来源。学校课程对青少年的性与生殖健康知识具有积极作用,但青少年参加相关课程/讲座的比例不足40%。50%以上的咨询和治疗需求未实现。分析了原因,提出了对策和建议。