In search of patterns among travellers' hotel ratings in TripAdvisor

This paper sheds light on ways travellers' rating patterns in the hotel review website TripAdvisor differ between independent and chain hotels. To delve deeper, travellers were classified according to their profiles, namely, business, couple, family, friend and solo. Besides, hotels straddled across four geographical regions, namely, America, Asia Pacific, Europe as well as Middle East and Africa. A 5 (profiles) × 4 (regions) two-way factorial analysis of variance was conducted separately for independent and chain hotels. A qualitative analysis was further conducted to tease out the findings from the quantitative analyses. Travellers' rating patterns were found to differ substantially between independent and chain hotels across both profiles as well as regions. The paper concludes by highlighting its implications, limitations and potential directions for future research.     

浙江省城镇土地分等地域分界特征研究

城镇土地质量差异不仅存在于城镇内部。而且在城镇之间也有明显反映.本文以定量分析方法．探讨浙江省城镇土地分等地域分异规律。将浙江省城镇土地划分为五个等级、为政府制定有关地价宏观调控政策提供基础依据。     

加快我国地方税体系改革的思考

“十一五“规划提出按资源环境承载能力和经济增长潜力的可能和条件,划分优化开发、重点开发、限制开发和禁止开发四类不同功能区,形成区域合理发展的格局,对促进各地转变经济发展方式有着十分重大的意义;同时,对税收制度包括地方税体系也提出了新的要求,提出了构建区域型地方税体系的基本前提条件及地方税体系改革的基本思路。     

新疆发展制造业的必要性、可行性及对策研究

制造业发展落后是新疆经济欠发达的原因之一。长期以来,国家对新疆的支持主要在能源矿产和农业等产业方面,对制造业发展的支持和重视略显不足。随着新疆内外环境的变化,大力发展制造业成为促进新疆经济实现跨越式发展的一条重要途径。新疆今后应大力发展劳动密集型制造业,填补＂空白＂制造业,扶持弱势制造业;以外向型经济为方向,发展制造业集群和专业化市场。与此同时,还应完善鼓励制造业发展的政策措施,为制造业发展营造良好的政策环境。     

会展经济夹生带会展业发展策略

我国形成了五个会展经济带,与此带来边缘化的会展经济夹生带,而五大会展经济带本身存在着项目稀缺性与项目可复制、展会聚集性与参展商和专业观众流动性、品牌展会建设与产业变迁、规范化与展会规模、制度与市场需求等七大矛盾,本文针对这些矛盾为会展经济夹生带区域提出了政策扶持、招商活动先行、增强会展条件完善城市吸附功能、围绕优势产业打造精品展、提供个性化服务、提高会展企业资质等八大策略。     

The Salmon-Agreement Between Norway and the European Union—A Welfare Economic Analysis

The relationship between tariff policy and anti-dumping use is empirically examined. Using a panel dataset of 56 countries over the period of 1995–2007, the effects of tariff liberalization on anti-dumping use are found to vary across world regions. For European countries, as well as developed North American and Latin American countries, a lower tariff rate appears to induce more use of anti-dumping measures, which emerge as a protection tool among trade liberalization regimes. In contrast, a reduction in a tariff rate leads to lower anti-dumping use in developing North American and Latin American countries and in developed Asian, African, and Middle Eastern countries. In terms of initiating anti-dumping action, developed countries are likely to be more sensitive than developing countries to tariff policy change in most regions of the world.     

Coalbed Methane, New Road to New Resources

Ashortage of coal and coal mines has accelerated the resource crisis in China. compounded by the heavy snow in the southern regions that hit just before the Chinese traditional Spring Festival period.The uncertainty of coal supplies from China,Australia and South Africa has resulted in a sharp price increase in the Asian coal market.How to solve the coal problem not only during this time of crisis but also in the long-term has raised the level of concern in this newly affected nation. Some new and alternative resources have been considered as substitutes,such as coalbed methane.China＇s Foreign Trade interviewed the Vice-President and Senior Engineer of China United Coalbed Methane Co.,Ltd.,Mr.Lin Jianhao,to discuss this topic in detail.     

论西部民族地区文化企业的发展之路

文化产业的主体是企业,要走改革开放后我国其他企业的发展之路:深化文化体制改革,不断适应市场经济条件下对文化产业的要求;实行文化品牌战略,打造民族文化的名牌产品;积极开拓市场,用好现代营销策略;重视人才,实施企业的人才发展战略;坚持创新,在创新中求发展.