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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Travel-related"”.
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The Impact Of Selected Socio-demographic, Travel-related And Psychogra
… the tourism expenditure patterns from the traveler's perspective (Cai, Hong, and Morrision, 1995; Dardis, et al., 1981; Prais and Houthakker,1971; Sheldon and Mak , 1987; Jang, et al.,2003). However, an examination of the previous studies indicates that only limited understanding of the …
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Determinants of E-Commerce Demand, Travel Behavior, and Travel-Related Expenditures Among U.S. Households
… how rapid growth in e-commerce and consumer travel-related expenditure influences household travel demand, their mode choice, and transportation spending behavior in the United States. The time frame of the dataset focuses on the post-COVID-19 era. It uses the data from the 2022 U.S. National …
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An investigation into the travel motivations and decision-making processes of Chinese seniors
… and the researcher only found seven articles related to the subject. Second, within the Chinese research literature there are several critical limitations regarding research methods. This is because that there are a large number of non-empirical studies within the Chinese research literature. …
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Bayard Taylor and his Transatlantic Representations of Germany: A Nineteenth-Century American Encounter
… Taylor was a nineteenth-century American writer, traveler, lecturer, and diplomat well-known in his lifetime. Although active in many areas, he acquired fame chiefly through his adventures as a globetrotting news correspondent to exotic non-western regions at a time in which the United States was …
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Tourism, travel risk and travel risk perceptions: a study of travel risk perceptions and the effects of incidents on tourism
… acts of terrorism or war), there is an impact on travel flows and patterns. These impacts can be in the form of the volume of tourists that flow to a particular area, the characteristics of those tourists and/or the expenditure they make whilst there. The time required for destinations to recover …
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Addressing unmet needs in the small and medium enterprises through use of emerging technologies : a business plan
… Enterprises in India face a major problem with Travel & Expense management due to higher prices, low return-on-investment, higher transition costs and steeper learning curve. In order to address this unmet need and huge opportunity, we are building 'T-Desque' a cloud-based travel solution for …
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Travel behavior and expenditure patterns of the Chinese university student and the associated visiting friends and relatives (VFRs) markets in New Zealand
This thesis examines travel behavior and expenditure patterns of Chinese university students and the associated VFRs in New Zealand. It also investigates the effects of socio-demographics, travel-related, and psychographic variables on travel behavior and expenditure patterns. The thesis involves …
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High-throughput sequencing to understand pathogen carriage and transmission
… of SARS-CoV-2, I evaluated the effectiveness of travellers being required to quarantine for 14 days on return to England in Summer 2020. I identified 4,207 travel-related SARS-CoV-2 cases and their 18,885 contacts, along with 888 associated travel-related SARS-CoV-2 genomes in the UK SARS-CoV-2 …
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Creating Belonging and Community on a Multisite Blended Field Course
… focused on peatlands, was piloted to reduce travel-related emissions associated with field courses. The course combined fieldwork at three separate research sites with shared online learning phases before and after the field phase. The analysis in the thesis draws on the Community of Inquiry …
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Tourist Harlem: Sidewalks, Cyberspace, and the In/Visibility of Race
… comprising TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel related social media website. The purpose of this research is to identify forces of racial commodification in the tourism industry and analyze the role of digital technologies in this process. This research is important because tourism and …
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Globetoddler : enhancing the experience of remote interaction for preschool children and their traveling parents
… become more geographically distributed. Business traveling - the kind of traveling that tends to separate family members - is still a very common phenomenon and keeps making it difficult for family members to maintain a feeling of connectedness. Different time zones and contexts are some of many …
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Essays on dynamic sales mechanisms
… Priceline.com. Priceline.com, a website helping travelers obtain discount rates for travel-related items, gained prominence for its Name Your Own Price system. Under Name Your Own Price, a traveler names his price for airline tickets, hotel rooms, or car rentals. Priceline then checks if there is …
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Personal memory and the negotiation of identity : a self portrait
… the present, and their corresponding memory-related problems are discussed. Photographs are looked at in relation to memory as well as for their ability to inform or influence individual identity. References to the multi-faceted information that is unconsciously assimilated from multi-media …
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Health Risk Perception for Household Trips and Associated Protection Behavior During an Influenza Outbreak
This project deals with exploring 1) travel-related health risk perception, and 2) actions taken to mitigate that health risk. Ordered logistic regression models were used to identify factors associated with the perceived risk of contracting influenza at work, school, daycare, stores, restaurants, …
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Know Your User: Building a Predictive Model of Consumer Preference for Driverless Cars
… these two industries will have on each other. Travelers’ preference for riding in an autonomous vehicle rather than a commercial aircraft was investigated through four different scenarios.</p> <p>METHOD: A regression equation was created to predict participants’ preferred travel method and …
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Developing advanced econometric frameworks for modeling multidimensional choices : an application to integrated land-use activity based model framework
… of choices that are influenced by land-use and travel environment attributes. An accurate characterization of activity-travel patterns requires explicit consideration of the land-use and travel environment (referred to as travel environment from here on). There are two important categories of …
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Travel Behavior Analysis and Mode Choice Prediction for Commuting to Campus - Performance Comparison of Discrete Choice and Machine Learning Models
Extensive studies exist on various aspects of travel behaviour of the general population; however, few works explore the commuting behaviour of university commuters. This thesis investigates university commuters' commuting habits/attitudes to better understand their commuting behaviour and compares …
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Comparative Analysis of Mature Travelers on the Basis of Internet Use
Travel and tourism marketers face a highly competitive environment brought on by the changing demographics of the U.S. population, the most significant change being the growth in size of the mature segment of the population. In terms of market size, there are currently 73 million people age 50 and …
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Quantifying the Impact of Traffic-Related and Driver-Related Factors on Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Emissions
… consumption and emissions. Specifically, highway travel accounts for nearly 75 percent of total transportation energy use and slightly more than 33 percent of national emissions of EPA's six Criteria pollutants. Enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990 (CAAA) and the Intermodal Surface …
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Complexity in measuring the higher education institution scope 3 emissions.
… the supply chain, employee commuting, business travel, and waste disposal, can contribute up to 65% of an organisation's carbon footprint. By not reporting scope 3 emissions, organisations are significantly underreporting their overall emissions. To achieve the goal of net-zero emissions by …
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