Exploring Content and Design Factors Associated with Convention and Visitors Bureau Web Site Development

Abstract

Convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) have become important organizations within the tourism industry. The International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) reported that it represents approximately 500 destination management organizations in 30 countries (IACVB, 2003). As one of the most important components of the tourism industry in the United States, the Convention and Visitors Bureau performs various activities to facilitate destination marketing and development, with the aim of enticing leisure and convention customers to their particular city or region. Meanwhile, meeting planners are using technology to enhance their ability to produce and execute meetings that demonstrate a high return on investment. Consequently, CVBs' websites have enormous potential in selling a destination and facilitating the meeting/convention planning process. This paper explores the content and design factors associated with convention and visitors bureau web site development. It also demonstrates how planners utilize the Internet and CVB websites.     

浅析合伙企业在税收协定中的"缔约国居民"之身份

合伙企业是否为“缔约国居民”对税收协定的适用有重要影响。一般来说,合伙企业属于协定意义上的“人”,但并不意味着同时也属于“缔约国居民”,只有当合伙企业被视为纳税实体,对所得负有纳税义务时,才可能成为协定意义上的“缔约国居民”,此时合伙企业本身有资格享受协定优惠。如果合伙人就按份所得负有纳税义务,合伙企业被视为纳税虚体,则不是“缔约国居民”,其合伙人可以享受相关协定的优惠。     

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Abstract

Cities spend billions of dollars to build or expand convention centers (Sanders, 2005). To cities with ailing downtowns, the lure of the convention business has long been something coveted by local politicians as a means to rejuvenate these markets. Now local governments wishing to expand their convention business by rejuvinating an ailing downtown market, and thus making their citiy more attractive to convention planners, may have another weapon in their arsenal in the form of “public use” under government's eminent domain power.     

乌鲁木齐会展业的产业关联体系及品牌塑造研究

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Strategic Similarity and Emergent Conventions: Evidence from Similar Stag Hunt Games

This paper reports evidence on the origin of convention in laboratory cohorts confronting similar but not identical strategic situations repeatedly. The experiment preserves the action space of the game, while randomly perturbing the payoffs and scrambling the action labels in an effort to blunt the salience of retrospective selection principles. Hence, the similarity between stage games is reduced to certain strategic details, like efficiency, security, and risk dominance. Nevertheless, we do observe conventions emerging in half of the laboratory cohorts. When a convention emerges subjects's behavior conforms to the selection principles of efficiency rather than security or risk dominance. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C72, C78, C92, D83.     

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广州会议、会展业对广州酒店业的经营影响巨大，尤其是每年两次的交易会给当地酒店带来了大量的客源。随着经济的发展，新会展中心的形成，将使广州的酒店业在需求总量上进一步扩大，但酒店之间的竞争格局会发生改变，尤其是高档酒店之间的竞争会更加激烈，在酒店布局上，形成酒店的东进、南移的新局面。     

城市会展业发展中的政府角色探析

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Gender-Based Focal Points

The subjects behaved significantly more “hawkish” in an experimental battle of the sexes game when the co-player was a woman compared to when it was a man. Discrimination helped the parties to coordinate and increase the average earnings in the subject group of mixed sex, compared to the unisex groups. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: J7, C7, C9.     

基于协会会议参会人角度的国际会议目的地竞争力研究——以北京为例

北京建设国际会议城市是其实现建设世界城市的重要组成部分，因此，研究北京作为国际会议城市的竞争力具有重要意义。文章从协会会议参会人的角度，研究影响国际会议目的地选择的因素，并通过重要性一绩效分析方法（IPA）研究北京作为国际会议目的地的竞争力。文章指出，北京建设国际会议城市具有多方面优势，其中“可达性”、“目的地形象”、“安全”重要性高、表现性好，属于“继续保持”的因素，同时北京也有很多需要改进的地方，如“通用语言”、“住宿成本”、“当地居民的友好程度”以及“接待和住宿设施”。     

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