Gabrielle Bihan Lin
Postgraduate Research Student
My research project
Stimulating hospitality and tourism demand from the views of behavioural economics
Many theories in behavioural economics provide cost-effective methods and strategies to nudge people's behaviours to specific directions, which are widely adopted in finance, public health, sustainable development, policy implementation, and so on. Given few tourism studies have discussed the effects of behavioural economic theories on consumer behaviours, this research project finds it imperative to explore the potential significance of these theories for stimulating consumption demand in hospitality and tourism contexts and compare the different interpretations for tourism demand by traditional and behavioural economics.
My publications
Publications
Makkonen T, Lin B (2012)Continuing vocational training and innovation in Europe, In: International Journal of Innovation and Learning11(4)pp. 325-338 Inderscience
This paper hypothesises that continuing vocational training (CVT) should have a positive effect on the innovativeness of nations. Using correlation analysis and several variables from the continuing vocational training survey (CVTS), which depicts various aspects of CVT, the hypothesis of a positive connection between CVT and innovation, as measured in patents, is confirmed in the European context: those nations where the commitment to CVT is the highest are also the most innovative countries in Europe. Consequently, investments and commitment to CVT, when properly planned and executed, have a positive effect on the innovativeness of firms and, subsequently, nations. Copyright © 2012 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.