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The 2003 New Zealand wineries’ survey
In 1997/98 a survey was conducted of New Zealand wineries with respect to their attitudes towards wine tourism and their relationship to key wine and food tourism stakeholders (Hall & Johnson, 1998). The survey was the ... -
Advances in conservation of Māori textiles; analysis and identification
A number of new methods and technologies for investigating Māori textiles have emerged from ten years of research in the Department of Applied Sciences - Clothing and Textile Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New ... -
Analysis of distortions in a mental map using GPS and GIS
Mental maps are a cartographic illustration of a person’s internal representation of the spatial environment in which they live. They are often used to provide an insight into how different ethnic or social groups perceive ... -
Antecedent of brand trust in e-tertiary education
Trust decreases the perceived risk of using a service. Since e-learners have no direct contact with the education providers, trust plays an important role in an e-tertiary setting. In a review of the literature, hypotheses ... -
Assessment of the performance of image fusion for the mapping of snow
The assessment of the performance of multi-resolution image fusion, or image sharpening methods, is difficult. In the context of binary classification of snow targets in mountainous terrain, fusion methods were applied to ... -
Australian snow tourist's perceptions of climate change: Implications for the Queenstown Lakes region of New Zealand
This qualitative research has emerged from the sustained discussion of the future of winter alpine tourism in the Australasian context. The ski industries of Australia and New Zealand are intertwined, with research requiring ... -
Beginning a conversation: writing a history about Mangaia
Imagine the following scene: Rarotonga International Airport, the date 26 April 1988. A young Pacific historian is standing in front of a weighing machine at the domestic check in. About to place his bags on the tray, he ... -
Beginning research on the quantification of spatial order
This research was conceived to contribute to the theoretical foundations of a general view of the dynamics of the world based on a concept of spatial order, defined and quantified in terms of differences or gradients. The ... -
Beyond consultation: Getting good outcomes for everyone in cross-cultural resource consent practice
When the Resource Management Act (RMA) was introduced in 1991 it brought in new requirements for the consideration of Māori knowledge and values. Nearly 20 years on, consultation with Māori has become a normal part of the ... -
Biosecurity: a significant issue for wine tourism?
People may be significant vectors for vine diseases and pests. Yet despite the potential biosecurity risks of visitation few New Zealand wineries have biosecurity strategies in place. The paper therefore aims to examine ... -
Brand trust as quality cues in online tertiary education
In Malaysia and Singapore, Internet-based education has not attracted as many students as had been expected. It is reckoned that trust decreases the perceived risk of using a service. Since online learners have no direct ... -
A categorization of simulation works on norms
In multi-agent systems, software agents are modelled to possess characteristics and behaviour borrowed from human societies. Norms are expectations of behaviours of the agents in a society. Norms can be established in a ... -
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS: KEY PLAYERS IN BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING?
Expanding on previous quantitative studies of business succession planning (BSP) by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in New Zealand, this study provides qualitative data on the BSP process and the usefulness of Chartered ... -
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS: KEY PLAYERS IN BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING?
Expanding on previous quantitative studies of business succession planning (BSP) by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in New Zealand, this study provides qualitative data on the BSP process and the usefulness of Chartered ... -
Clients’ motivations, perceptions, expectations and satisfaction levels: The New Zealand mountain guiding industry
Mountain guiding has been offered as an activity for tourists to New Zealand for over a century. In the late Nineteenth Century European guides, accompanying clients, introduced techniques to New Zealanders working at the ... -
Clustering of childhood asthma hospital admissions in New Zealand, 1999-2004
The context for this study is public concern about aerial spraying of biological insecticides over Auckland, New Zealand between January 2002 and May 2004. We analysed childhood asthma hospital admissions for the whole of ... -
A comparison of localised and global niching methods
Niching methods are a useful extension of evolutionary computation that allow evolutionary algorithms to be applied in multimodal problem domains. Current niching methods use either one of two methods to promote the formation ... -
The contribution of goal setting to the success of eCommerce systems among small and medium enterprises
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of goal setting as contributing factor for eCommerce systems (ECS) success in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Based on the literature review relative to eCommerce in ... -
Cubes, shadows and comic strips - a.k.a. interfaces, metaphors and maps?
This paper explores the scope of three specific geovisualisation ideas. a) The Tangible Augmented Street Map (TASM): the use of a paper cube as a tangible augmented reality (AR) interface to a “book” of digital street ...