This report presents findings from Objective 2 of the FRST funded research programme titled: Enhancing the Spatial Dimensions of Tourism Yield. The overall aim of the programme is to examine tourism yield from a demand ...

With the choice of forward looking theme for this year's conference, we have embarked on providing a vision for the New Zealand agricultural sector in the 21st Century. We decided to address this theme by focusing on four ...

For the past three decades analysts have relied primarily on discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques to evaluate projects and policies where cash flows were spread over time. However, recent developments point to DCF being ...

The theme of the Winter Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society, Agricultural Marketing: Structure, Conduct, and Performance is very much at the top of the agenda in discussions ...

It is suggested that the freight rate that an alternative wool shipping service could offer will influence the Conference rate for wool shipped from New Zealand to Europe. Data are presented showing that wool freight ...

Transport planning and transport investment in New Zealand are in transition. The historic emphasis on a supply oriented expansion of the transport infrastructure is no longer appropriate when faced with budgetary and ...

Income variability is one of the serious disadvantages of farming. It makes it difficult to organize farm development wisely and upsets the farm family's standard of living. In the past there have been boom years when ...

Establishing the economic contribution of visitor activities to national or local gross domestic product (GDP) has been the primary use of Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA). Visitor consumption is distributed throughout ...

In recent years, ‘yield’ has become a central issue in tourism development with many operators and policy analysts now seeking ‘high yield’ tourism. Attempts to maximise yield have sometimes focussed on maximising volume ...

Bangladesh and New Zealand are two small countries. Agriculture is the economic base in both countries. Both undertook economic reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. The experiences with economic reforms in these two countries ...