Statistical Analysis of Tourist Food Supply Industry

The Organic Food Industry: An Analysis of Supply and Demand via Aggregate Prices

Factors Influencing Tourist Food Consumption

This study attempts to identify the salient factors affecting tourist food consumption. By reviewing available studies in the hospitality and tourism literature and synthesising insights from food consumption and sociological research, five socio-cultural and psychological factors influencing tourist food consumption are identified: cultural/religious influences, socio-demographic factors, food...

Location-Based Services in the Tourist Industry

Mobile services available on mobile devices such as mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants are a suitable instrument for spontaneous, ad-hoc access to information travellers need while being on the move. The supply of mobile services with specific relevance to the traveller is already well developed: Mobile Services allow to book last-minute trips, rental cars and hotels; they provide in...

Statistical Analysis of Science, Technology and Industry

Despite the attention that offshore outsourcing currently demands in the public media, there is little empirical evidence on its economic impact. As a consequence of rising fears of job losses associated with the phenomenon, most existing research on the subject is primarily concerned with addressing related labour market issues. The impacts on productivity, however, have received only little a...

Multi-way Analysis in the Food Industry

This thesis describes some of the recent developments in multi-way analysis in the field of chemometrics. Originally, the primary purpose of this work was to test the adequacy of multi-way models in areas related to the food industry. However, during the course of this work, it became obvious that basic research is still called for. Hence, a fair part of the thesis describes methodological deve...