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Tourism survey research in sub-Saharan Africa: Problems and challenges
No full textThis paper examines the challenges encountered when conducting tourism-related research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using socio-demographic and infrastructure information as a backdrop, aspects of market research and their attendant challenges are examined. Issues of functional equivalence, conceptual equivalence, and translation equivalence are discussed, together with challenges relating to sampling, data collection, and analysis. The paper highlights some critical issues that need to be addressed when conducting consumer tourism-related surveys, in general, and community tourism-related research, in particular, in SSA countries and concludes with a discussion of the ways in which research and data gathering could be improved. Recommendations are offered in the spirit of encouraging consumer tourism-survey research and data gathering in Africa. © 2012 Taylor and Francis.Ahiauzu A. I., 1986, INT STUDIES MANAGEME, VIT16-IT, P37; Ankomah P. 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Increasing sub-saharan Africa's share of foreign direct investment: Public policy challenges, strategies, and implications
No full textIn this article, the author describes anecdotal predictors of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, which include key indicators of development, governance variables, information infrastructure, and business environment. He also presents the public policy challenges of increasing FDI to Sub-Saharan Africa. Using Porter's 1990 framework of competitive advantage of nations as a backdrop, specific strategies to increase FDI inflows with their implications are offered. Among the suggested strategies and implications are using the principle of clustering where demand conditions are favorable, looking outside the traditional inflows of FDI to Africa, establishing carefully monitored export processing zones, expanding regional trading arrangements, working together to change the negative perceptions of the region, and reducing corruption. The article ends with a conclusion and discussion. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.1
An Austral Christmas / by J.C.F. Johnson, author of "A fine fortune", "Over the island", "Moses and me", etc
No full text1st ed.: Adelaide : W.K. Thomas, 1888.Sketches and poems.Electronic reproduction.Johnson, J.C.F. (Joseph Colin Francis
Grondbeleid voor landbouw in de Europese unie
No full textDit artikel behandelt de interpretatieve mededeling van de Europese Commissie over de verwerving van landbouwgrond en het Europees recht. De mogelijke relevantie voor Nederland wordt besproken.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.OLD Geo-information and Land Developmen
De Omgevingswet als groot ICT-project
No full textBinnen de planologie is veel onderzoek gedaan naar grote stedelijke projecten. De bij besluitvorming voorgestelde kosten en baten van zulke projecten zijn notoir onbetrouwbaar gebleken. Grote projecten kosten meestal meer dan geraamd, de realisatie duurt langer en de maatschappelijke baten vallen vaak tegen. Ook de Omgevingswet en het bijbehorende digitale stelsel kan worden beschouwd als een groot ICT-project. Niets wijst erop dat de Omgevingswet een van de schaarse positieve uitzonderingen zal vormen op de gangbare praktijk van grote projecten.Accepted Author ManuscriptOLD Geo-information and Land Developmen
Stranden en strandverdediging
No full textDescription of the Dutch (sandy) coastline, data on high water line, low water line and dunefoot, description of groynes along the coast, effects of harbour moles and breakwaters on the sandy coastline. Detailed analysis on the efficiency of groins along the coast of Holland as well as the Wadden islandsHydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Instrumentarium locatieontwikkeling. Sturingsmogelijkheden voor gemeenten in een veranderde marktsituatie
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Planning initiative: Promoting development by the use of options in Amsterdam
No full textThe development of existing urban areas is needed to prevent urban sprawl. Several factors, including land assembly holdouts and the option value of land, contribute to landowners’ lack of initiative to develop designated sites. Urban governance measures, however, may provide the necessary solutions. By implementing policies that promote inner-city development, i.e. by providing serviced plots for building development, urban expansion can be controlled to ensure that it does not result in a higher scarcity of land. This paper presents the case of Amsterdam, where policies ensure the timely securing of land appropriate for building and the use of option contracts to promote development. The results are discussed and their relevance to other contexts demonstrated.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.OLD Geo-information and Land Developmen
Aanvullingswet grondeigendom: continuïteit ondanks de filosofie van de Omgevingswet
No full textThe Environment and Planning Act is developed as a sequel to the Crisis and Recovery Act. In the context of the Global Financial Crisis, market players hardly realised buildings. In the rare case that a market player was willing to invest, the legal system should not limit investments, but facilitate initiative. Based on this thinking, the Environment and Planning Act is not aiming to facilitate public authorities to secure development based on public interest, but to facilitate takers of initiative that aim to construct even in time of crisis. This thinking has its consequences for the Complementary Act on Land Ownership. The Complementary Act incorporates legal arrangements form the Compulsory Purchase Act, the Municipal Pre-emption Act, the Act on Disposition of Rural Areas and the Spatial Planning Act to fit these in its system. These legal arrangements are made to connect plans with actual development on the ground and the issue is that the philosophy of planning by invitation of the Environment and Planning Act does not match with a public authority that aims to ensure that certain developments, such as the construction of sufficient affordable dwellings, actually take place. The local environment and land use plan in this new Act is not restricted, as prescribed by previous legislation, to developments that are feasible to be realised in the next 10 years, but the plan may be an unrealistic long term vision of the future. Such an unrealistic plan is too weak as legal ground for the taking of private property rights, which involves that it will be harder to use these legal arrangements.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Land Developmen
Mapping customer journeys in multichannel decision-making
No full textThis study is focused on multi-channel shopping, which refers to the integration of various channels in the consumer decision-making process. The term was coined in the early 2000s to signify the integration of offline and online shopping channels. It has since evolved to encompass the proliferating number of channels and media used to formulate, evaluate and execute buying decisions. With the explosion of mobile technologies and social media, multi-channel shopping has indeed become a journey in which customers choose the route they take and which, arguably, needs to be mapped to be understood. Existing consumer decision-making models were developed in pre-internet days and have remained for the most part unquestioned in the digital marketing discourse. Darley, Blankson and Luethge concluded that there is a ‘paucity of research on the impact of online environments on decision making’, which has also been observed in the multi-channel context. Our study adopts an inductive approach allowing for realistic patterns to emerge of how consumers use and react to different media and channels in their shopping journeys for cosmetics. It therefore provides a threefold contribution: (1) it systematizes what are widely used yet largely misunderstood practices (ZMOT, webrooming and showrooming); (2) it defines the key multi-channel influences across different stages of decision making; and (3) it segments actual customer journeys into three distinct patterns that brands can use to optimize their multi-channel strategies
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