The price competitive position of Mediterranean countries in tourism: Evidence from the Thomson brochure

Tourism in the Mediterranean region is highly dependent on the few, large, mass market tour operators situated in the North European tourist originating countries. Price competition is intense both between the tour operators and between the Mediterranean countries themselves. This paper uses the hotel package prices listed in the Thomson summer and winter brochures to develop relative price indexes of each Mediterranean country with respect to the Mediterranean average. Indexes are developed in the 3 star, 4 star, 5 star, 7 nights and 14 nights, half-board holiday packages. The prices in the Thomson brochure can be regarded as a unified, internally consistent, set of price data, compiled by the largest UK tour operator and offered to UK tourists desiring a Thomson summer holiday. The change through time of the competitive relative price ranking of hotels, regions and countries listed in the Thomson brochure, may be regarded as an important competitive indicator by industry operators and national policy makers concerned about tourism development.     

基于Thomson Data Analyzer的太赫兹技术发展态势研究

太赫兹科学技术是一门日益兴起的新学科。太赫兹波段处于红外光和毫米波段之间,这一特殊的频率辐射区间,使其具有一些独特的性能。太赫兹技术的发展对科学技术创新和国民经济发展具有重要的理论和现实意义。采用汤姆森数据分析工具和文献计量学分析方法,对太赫兹领域在2001-2015年间科学引文数据库收录的科技论文进行了检索和分析,主要包括论文的发表年代与国家分布、研究机构和作者分布、学科领域分布以及研究热点等进行了分析,最后提出了我国太赫兹科技发展的对策和建议。