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This book goes beyond the methods usually covered in introductory textbooks on quantitative methods in tourism. It considers key issues in data selection, approaches to factor and cluster analysis and regression before covering advanced topics including structural equation modelling, maximum likelihood estimation, simulation and agent-based modelling. The result is a guide to quantitative methods in tourism that de-mystifies both simple and apparently complex techniques and makes them more accessible to tourism researchers.

This book examines the capabilities needed to transform a globally distributed organization into a virtual organization (an organization that exists and operates across time and distance with the support of global communications technologies such as the Internet). The multidisciplinary team of authors examines virtualization from points of view ranging from the organizational to the technological to the sociological and psychological.

This book goes beyond the methods usually covered in introductory textbooks on quantitative methods in tourism. It considers key issues in data selection, approaches to factor and cluster analysis and regression before covering advanced topics including structural equation modelling, maximum likelihood estimation, simulation and agent-based modelling. The result is a guide to quantitative methods in tourism that de-mystifies both simple and apparently complex techniques and makes them more accessible to tourism researchers.

This book covers wikis as information sources, as a form of publishing, and as tools for collaboration. The application of wikis in library and information services, education and businesses is also examined through practical guidance and real world examples. This book identifies and describes the different kinds of wikis, as well as the advantages and problems associated with their use in information work and collaboration. There is discussion of directories, search engines and other finding tools, as well as options for creating and managing wikis. The book also includes lists of resources related to wikis.

This book examines the capabilities needed to transform a globally distributed organization into a virtual organization (an organization that exists and operates across time and distance with the support of global communications technologies such as the Internet). The multidisciplinary team of authors examines virtualization from points of view ranging from the organizational to the technological to the sociological and psychological.

A 1979 study of distance (correspondence, external) education and library related activities of students of the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), based on a 67 response to 515 questionnaires mailed to external students, and a smaller number responded to by internal students. Few significant differences between external and internal students were revealed, and library differences related to ease of access to libraries. Both internal and external students made no attempt to obtain a very high proportion of additional recommended books. Both groups bought most text books. Academic staff diverged widely on what constituted a satisfactory course from a library viewpoint, and only a small minority of external course writers aimed at identity in the bibliographic content of courses because most could not see how students could identify and locate materials themselves. The study offered little support for the view that external students are particularly disadvantaged in access to study materials. Recommendations are provided for: (1) course writers; (2) the provision of library services by WAIT. (ALB).