Travel Brochures as Constructs and Commodities

Japanese English in Travel Brochures

This study investigates the role and impact of English loan words on Japanese language in travel brochures. The issues arising from a potential switch to English as a tool to absorb the West’s advanced knowledge and technology in the modernization of Japan to a means of linking Japan with the rest of the world and enhancing the country’s international presence. Sociolinguistic contexts was used...

Do travel brochures give adequate advice on avoiding illness?

Do travel brochures give adequate advice on avoiding illness? There has been a spectacular growth in the number of travellers world wide over the past 35 years (table) and the World Tourism Organisation predicts that the number of international tourists will reach 480 million by 1990. Travel to the developing regions is expected to show the highestgrowth rate (ibout 100/o-almost twice the world...

Information Technology as Commodities

This paper is about a model of software delivery known as Software as a Service (SaaS). We believe that companies will pay for software as they pay for electricity and telephone. They will pay for what they use. We present why and when it happened. That it came from the outsourcing idea and became possible by the advances in the Internet. Software retailers will become service provides. The mai...

Externalities as Commodities: Comment

Commodities as Collateral∗

This paper proposes and tests a theory of using commodities as collateral for financing. In the presence of capital control and financial frictions, financial investors import commodities and pledge them as collateral to capture the higher expected return in the importing country. The collateral demand for commodities increases commodity prices globally; it also increases futures risk premium i...