Market power,uncertainty, and the level of trade

We consider a set of home firms, each of which has a stochastic requirement for a particular input. High-cost home firms can produce the input themselves. Low-cost foreign firms produce the input to sell it to home firms through an international market. Efficiency requires the input to be produced by foreign firms and traded in the market. Yet, home firms will always engage in inefficient home production. By producing some of its own input needs, a home firm cuts down on aggregate input demand, thus depressing prices in the market.     

A Market and Spatial Perspective of Health Tourism Destinations: The Hungarian Experience

Since health tourism is one of the most popular and most dynamically developing products of modern tourism, this paper aims at studying the characteristic features of health tourism destinations from a regional and spatial perspective. Accordingly, the authors would like to introduce a new approach of spatial and product analysis of tourism where the market and spatial relations and relevance of health tourism were analysed through the example of Hungary. Although the classic medical tourism centres were established on natural medical water basis, by today, due to product diversification, continuous innovation and the involvement of medical services into health tourism, the geographical embeddedness seems to disappear, thus basically restructuring the market. The methodological novelty of the research is that exceeding the classic supply–demand algorithm, we compiled a complex viewpoint system adequate to the specialities of the given product characteristics. In our study, the authors intend to survey the special characteristics of health tourism focusing on medical destinations through Hungarian examples since the country's leading position in the global market is well recognized, including medical services. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

边境城市发展需求管理理论初探与研究——以广西区崇左市为例

对边境城市的关注与建设是关系到国家社会安定团结的重要策略。以崇左市这个边境城市的建设为背景,从马斯洛需求层次理论和科学建设城市观的角度出发,把边境城市的发展提到了对其城市建设的需求管理上,把成功打造边境城市品牌的名片纳入到了边境城市提升经济地位的中心策略里,强调了满足边境城市发展的需求管理理论,可以有效地建立于邻国的友好往来、互惠互利的关系,并给边民们在心理上建立了有效的安定繁荣的心理效应,使得他们能够在此安居乐业,共创美好和平的新生活。     

地方政府规模影响因素实证分析

本文从公共服务需求角度出发,运用中国31省面板数据检验了地方政府规模的影响因素。研究发现：（1）我国地方政府规模发展趋势符合瓦格纳法则,同时满足对外经济的效率假说和补偿假说;（2）民族多元化对地方政府规模有显著的正向影响;（3）上期政府收入对政府支出有很大的正向影响,说明二者之间互为因果关系。     

On structural inelasticity of modal substitution in freight transport

At the European level there is an increasing focus on how freight transport can be moved from trucks on roads to more environmentally friendly modes such as rail and ship. A large proportion of the transport services between OD pairs, however, cannot be substituted since there is only one alternative available. The paper investigates the magnitude of this “structural inelasticity” of modal substitution in freight transport due to a sparser layout of rail and ship-based freight networks compared to road. In the analysis we use a recent Scandinavian freight demand model covering more than 800 zones. We find that the structural inelasticity is very significant - in particular for transportation over less than 500 km. Moreover, the inelasticity varies greatly with commodity groups and between OD pairs, and it depends strongly on the port and rail infrastructure. The results suggest that pure charging instruments (road pricing for trucks) in many regions will have limited mode substitution impacts. However, if combined with structural changes in terms of improved infrastructure for rail and ship, impacts may be greater.     

少数民族地区民俗旅游产品游客体验质量要素体系构建研究——以凤凰为例

关注游客对民俗旅游产品的体验需求,有利于做好游客的体验管理,提升游客的体验质量,实现少数民族地区民俗旅游产品的可持续发展。以体验经济为时代背景,从游客体验角度出发,在梳理旅游体验质量影响要素的基础上,提出少数民族地区民俗旅游产品游客体验质量要素体系的理论模型假设;通过随机抽样的调查方式,采用因子分析和方差分析方法,构建了少数民族地区民俗旅游产品游客体验质量要素体系,包括产品体验、环境体验、管理体验和个人能力4个主要素;并在此基础上,提出了凤凰民俗旅游产品游客体验管理对策,即打造核心体验产品、构筑完美体验环境、加强全面体验管理和高度挑战个人能力。     

基于顾客需求的星级酒店网站功能评价——以广州市60家星级酒店为例

酒店网站功能作为酒店信息化的研究要点之一,已有成果多关注网站本身的结构和内容,忽视了酒店网站为其顾客服务的本质。本文在确定网站功能结构和评价指标的基础上,首先利用问卷调查法了解顾客对于酒店网站功能的需求,然后对60家样本酒店的网站进行了访问,分析其所具有的功能。研究认为,目前广州市星级酒店网站功能不能满足顾客的需求,基础层能提供简单的酒店信息,但忽视了酒店顾客的旅游需求;主体层的功能不能满足顾客了解特色、提前体验和信息交流的需求,不具个性化;核心层的功能与顾客需求不对称,信息更新不及时,客户关系管理不健全,没有实现基础层和主体层的功能的增值组合与动态优化。因而,要使酒店网站真正成为酒店管理和营销的有效工具,必须充分考虑酒店顾客需求。     

生态旅游市场营销内涵及其产品策略

本文认为生态旅游市场营销包括生态旅游理念营销和生态旅游产品营销，并从生态旅游产品的概念、生态旅游产品生命周期营销策略、生态旅游产品组合策略、生态旅游产品开发策略等方面论述了生态旅游市场营销的产品策略。     

Estimation of tourism demand by multivariable regression analysis Evidence from Kenya

Between 1963 and 1982, tourism was one of the top three domestic exports of Kenya. Knowledge of the variables which significantly Influence Kenyan tourism demand could help tourism policy makers in planning growth strategies. The results of this study indicate that multivariable regression analysis has limited usefulness in identifying the significant factors which influence tourists' decisions. Data problems and resulting multicollinearity cause unsuitable results in one case, while model specification appears to be a problem in another. The author concludes that quantitative studies should be supplemented by qualitative analysis in order for Kenyan policymakers to make optimal decisions.     

丹霞山客源市场旅游需求的调查与分析

近些年兴起的旅游开发热促进了我国旅游业的发展。同时造成了旅游供求矛盾的日益加剧，在旅游规划中加强对客源市场旅游需求的研究也就愈发具有实际意义。传统的客源市场旅游需求调研方法往往主观性较强、欠深化。不能够真实地反映客源市场的旅游需求现状。以丹霞山世界地质公园为例。对旅游地客源市场旅游需求的调研方法、调研内容、调研分析等问题做了一些新的尝试。