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2010

Marketing

Nina M. Ray

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Guiding Tourists To Their Ancestral Homes, Nina M. Ray, Gary Mccain Nov 2010

Guiding Tourists To Their Ancestral Homes, Nina M. Ray, Gary Mccain

Nina M. Ray

Purpose: This paper introduces measures of the motivation of tourists who travel to their ancestral homes. A set of learning exercises is presented for students and managers to apply understanding of these motives to tourism strategies.

Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper provides a brief review of the literature of heritage tourism and the special segment that travel with genealogical objectives. Survey data on motives to seek out ancestors is provided with learning exercises to link motives to tourism planning.

Findings: Data on the importance of multiple motives is presented with analytical measures of their overall importance levels and of differences between U.S. …


Maintenance Of Latvian Business Language, Culture, And Community Through Heritage Tourism And The Internet, Gundars Kaupins, Nina M. Ray, Andris Berzins Nov 2010

Maintenance Of Latvian Business Language, Culture, And Community Through Heritage Tourism And The Internet, Gundars Kaupins, Nina M. Ray, Andris Berzins

Nina M. Ray

No abstract provided.


Emphasizing Foreign Language Use To International Marketing Students: A Situational Exercise That Mimics Real-World Challenges, Tracy L. Melin, Nina M. Ray Nov 2010

Emphasizing Foreign Language Use To International Marketing Students: A Situational Exercise That Mimics Real-World Challenges, Tracy L. Melin, Nina M. Ray

Nina M. Ray

An international marketing exercise consists of students orally providing an introduction in a chosen foreign language of what they, as potential salespeople, might say to a client in that country. Students speak (not read) their prepared statements to the class and are leniently, yet constructively, evaluated on language use and pronunciation and marketing credibility. The objective is to emulate a real business situation and to show students the challenges of working with different languages and cultures in international marketing and the imperfections of direct translation. Results of a student survey showed that a majority of students believed the exercise to …


Basque Studies: Commerce, Heritage, And A Language Less Commonly Taught, But Whole-Heartedly Celebrated, Nina M. Ray, Nere Lete Nov 2010

Basque Studies: Commerce, Heritage, And A Language Less Commonly Taught, But Whole-Heartedly Celebrated, Nina M. Ray, Nere Lete

Nina M. Ray

No abstract provided.


Beyond Spanish For Business: Teaching Marketing Issues In The Spanish-Speaking World, Nina M. Ray Nov 2010

Beyond Spanish For Business: Teaching Marketing Issues In The Spanish-Speaking World, Nina M. Ray

Nina M. Ray

No abstract provided.