Segment Of Demand Research Articles

PREREQUISITES TO THE SUCCESS OF HOTEL PRODUCTS

Actual basic characteristics of tourist movements of globalization, standardization, market segmentation and computerization, impose to the responsible managers the need of defining that kind of hotel product which would be so attractive with its content to find that part of the consumers which will finally consume that product. This fact goes in favor to the fact that for the entire hotel offer is important the element of exploration of tourist market and defining the segment of tourist demand which has to draw attention, wake up the interest, provoke the desire and initiate on the action with its attractiveness. The hotel product, as the first element of marketing mix, is made of material and unmaterial services which are offered to the hotel guests, and same thing is with hotel service that is in fact a group of many services with which we fulfill the guest’s needs of accommodation, food and drink, and other services that are paid in the usual way in hotelery. When it is mentioned usual and specific hotelery way that means the way on which the guest will satisfy his own needs and motives of traveling. Working we explore the necessary assumptions which have to be fullfiled for better placing of hotel product on the more squemish and demanding tourist market.

The segmentation of canary island tourism markets by expenditure: implications for tourism policy

The Canary Islands have an indisputable comparative and competitive edge within the European Union as regards their tourism products. The present study takes a segmented market approach to study the Canary Islands tourism market, featuring a range of tourism products, each of which satisfies to a greater or lesser extent the needs of one segment of demand. It has two objectives: firstly, to ascertain which segments of demand are currently acquired at destination and secondly, to identify within these segments the niches associated with the highest expenditure. This will enable us to draw up guideliness for a regional policy on product innovation that focuses on these niches and thus generates higher levels of local development.

Análisis del Mercado inmobiliario urbano- residencial de Serena–Coquimbo: El caso de Las Compañías.

The marketing of urban space which is inherent to a free market economy aiming at maximising real state profits , produces the concentration of social housing in certain sectors of the city thus freeing the rest of the urban areas from the devaluation that takes place around social housing neighbourhoods. Thus rises social housing segregation clearly present in metropolitan areas in Chile (Santiago, Valparaiso y Concepcion) but it is also starting to appear in intermediate size cities like La Serena and Coquimbo, which is the case study in this paper. The aim is to reveal the characteristics of this phenomena and its negative effects not only on the inhabitants affected by segregation but also on real state market itself which is deprived of a segment of potential demand due to the housing immobility of the lower socio-economic groups.

Temporary Employment and Segmentation in the Spanish Labour Market: An Empirical Analysis through the Study of Wage Differentials

The focus of this piece of work is the study of wage differentials between two broad types of workers, classified according to the nature of the employment contract they hold: either temporary or permanent. We intend to find out whether wage differentials between these two groups of workers are related to the distribution of employment contracts between different kinds of jobs or they register different returns for the same features. Although temporary and permanent workers are supposed to be equally paid for the same tasks, labour laws defending the former against discrimination. The data-sets used here to explore wage differentials are the European Community Household Panel (hereafter ECHP), and the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES). They are not strictly comparable then, but complementary. Wage differentials obtained with each data-set are decomposed using the well known Oaxaca-Blinder method, and the relevance of the different elements of such decomposition constitutes the main conclusive results. Our first intuition is that temporary and permanent contracts are used to cover different kinds of jobs, and this will be the main factor that will explain wage differentials between temporary and permanent workers. Besides, since temporary work does not affect people homogeneously through their working lives (being a common feature during the first years of the working life), differences in wage differentials should also be found among young and adult workers. Summarising, the aim is to study whether temporary status implies lower wages regardless of personal and job-related characteristics or whether temporary contracts are used in Spain to fill a particular segment of the labour demand and that is the main cause of wage differentials. These aspects will be separately studied for young and adult workers and the analysis is done twice, using two complementary data-sets. The main empirical findings show that permanent workers are better paid than temporary ones regardless of the age group, the main reasons for this being both the differences in the composition of employment and the distribution of job and personal characteristics between both kinds of workers. Besides, there are features that influence the probability of being hired under a (temporary) permanent contract and push wages (down) up. Wage differentials between temporary and permanent workers are explained by the differences in the characteristics of jobs and workers. Indeed, should two workers be exactly the same but have different types of contracts, temporary workers would register higher earnings than permanent ones. This result differs from previous evidence on the topic, but on the one hand it is achieved through a slightly different econometric specification (since we control for the endogeneity of the type of contract) and on the other hand it is coherent using two different data-sets. Results would agree with the initial intuition: there is a demand-based segmentation in the Spanish labour market.

Issues in Price Discrimination: Reply

In reply to the comment on our paper by T. Jeitschko, we make the following five points. First, in the figure in our original paper the total marginal revenue curve (MRT) is incorrectly drawn. We thank Professor Jeitschko for catching this error. Fortunately, the diagrammatic error did not affect any of our numerical results as reported in the original paper. Second, Jeitschko claims that the computations in our numerical example are incorrect, owing to an incorrect statement of the market demand curve, and provides an alternative numerical example. In fact, he is correct that we did not write the market demand curve as piecewise linear as he does in his comment. However, given that marginal cost is constant at $20, in our example the only relevant portion of the market demand curve in determining the competitive equilibrium is the linear segment of demand that we report. In other words, that we did not write the demand as piecewise linear has no bearing on the results we show in the paper. Professor Jeitschko also states that a between total welfare under perfect competition and first-degree price discrimination appears in the In fact, there is a typographical error that we missed showing a discrepancy of $0.25; welfare under first-degree discrimination appears as $275.25 when it should have read $275. We thank Professor Jeitschko for catching this typographical error. However, we emphasize that the computations in his comment on our paper are simply an alternative numerical example to ours, not a correction of our results.

The Market for Agricultural Economists: Discussion

three papers on The Market for Agricultural Economists present a rather wide array of thinking on the subject. It is good and necessary for the profession to be concerned about the demand for and supply of agricultural economists at both the Ph.D. and master's levels. Our graduate programs must be market driven to be successful. As such, these programs will recognize the changing nature of the market and respond with a supply of young professionals who can find a productive place in the market. demand for agricultural economists has become very broad and diverse over the years. various segments of that market can be broken down as follows: (a) Academic. This is the largest segment of demand and includes our traditional efforts