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Summer season tourism trends in 2011
Posted on: 23 March 2012
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The annual Statistics in Focus “Summer tourism trends”, published by Eurostat, provides information on the number of nights spent in hotels and similar establishments in the EU and EFTA countries and on the net occupancy of these establishments during the summer months (from June to September).
Foresight: March 2012
Posted on: 23 March 2012
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The latest monthly bulletin from Visit Britain looks at international tourism balance of payments, that being the difference between how much overseas residents spend here in Britain and how much Britons spend when travelling abroad.
Analysing the new social media and mobile in travel landscape
Posted on: 22 March 2012
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Premiered at EyeforTravel’s Social Media & Mobile Strategies for Travel conference, this video contains insightful statistics gleaned from EyeforTravel’s in-depth Social Media & Mobile in Travel report. Produced by Digital Visitor, the video highlights the importance of mobile and also where travel brands are seeing traction in the social space.
Food and the tourism experience
Posted on: 21 March 2012
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This publication provides an understanding of the role of food tourism in local economic development and its potential for country branding. It also presents several innovative case studies in the food tourism sector and the experience industry.
Food and the tourism experience
Posted on: 21 March 2012
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This publication provides an understanding of the role of food tourism in local economic development and its potential for country branding. It also presents several innovative case studies in the food tourism sector and the experience industry.
UK Tourism Statistics 2012
Posted on: 16 March 2012
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The Tourism Alliance annual review of tourism statistics brings together the headline tourism figures from the three main national tourism surveys and combines them with key information from other studies and publications to provide an over view of the size and value of tourism to the UK economy.
Global Travel Trends 2011/12
Posted on: 9 March 2012
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IPK International has unveiled the preliminary results of the World Travel Monitor survey which indicate that significant changes are brewing in travel and booking behavior worldwide. For example, more off-season travel as well as continuing increases in online bookings can be expected. It predicts that the use of “social media” and “smartphones” will also be on the rise as sources of information or assisting in making concrete travel plans.
Attitudes of Europeans towards tourism
Posted on: 6 March 2012
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Flash Eurobarometers are ad hoc thematical telephone interviews conducted at the request of any service of the European Commission. Flash surveys enable the Commission to obtain results relatively quickly and to focus on specific target groups, as and when required. Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. The objectives of the latest survey on attitudes of Europeans towards tourism were to study: respondents’ motivation for going on holiday in 2011, the types of research and modes of organisation that people use before taking a holiday, attitudes towards tourism ( e.g. preferred holiday destinations, and the types of holiday that respondents favour), respondents’ travel profiles in 2011, the reasons why respondents did not go on holiday in 2011, including the potential impact of the current economic crisis and respondents’ holiday plans for 2012. Factsheets for individual European countries are also available.
Empowering inspiration: the future of travel search
Posted on: 2 March 2012
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A recently released study by Amadeus identifies trend-setting consumers’ behavior and motivations when shopping for travel online and identifies their experience during the destination selection, shopping and booking processes. The study also details the key trends and predictions for how consumers want to be able to search for travel online in the future.
The Art of the Possible. Using secondary data to detect social and economic impacts from investments in culture and sport: a feasibility study
Posted on: 28 February 2012
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This report by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) CASE research team looks at what we already know about the social and economic ‘value’ of culture in society from past research studies. The past studies under review look at the positive knock-on effects of investment in cultural facilities (including the subsequent ‘gentrification’ of an area, increased levels of employment, increased house prices etc).
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