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Author : Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
School/Work Place : University of Nottingham, UK (Leo Jago), Victoria University, Australia (Margaret Deery)
Contact : leo.jago@nottingham.ac.uk
Year : 2010

Despite the advent of improved electronic communications technology, face-to-face communication and networking remain the most effective means of enhancing business performance and innovation, particularly for more complex products. During the recent global financial crisis, there has been substantial pressure to reduce the cost of doing business, which has resulted in many companies cutting their business travel and business meetings budgets. Concern has now been raised as to the consequence for long term business development of these changes.

This paper, which is based upon a study that was done for Australia’s Business Events Council of Australia (BECA), examines the role of face-to-face communication and the networking that occurs, especially through participation in business events in underpinning business development and innovation. In recent times, a number of surveys of business managers have been undertaken to assess attitudes towards the role of communication and networking in underpinning business development and this paper incorporates the key findings from these studies.


List of Articles
No. Subject Views Datesort
11 Think Tank V Communicating with Visitors During and After a Natural... file 2933 Oct 13, 2013

Tourism is often a significant component of a region or country’s economic, social, cultural and environmental well-being and a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tsunami, landslide, flood or bushfire may cause a range of impacts on the d...

Author: E. Kate Armstrong 

Year: 2005 

10 Think Tank V Framing Tourist Risk in UK Press Accounts of Hurricane... file 4876 Oct 13, 2013

This paper examines the coverage of Hurricane Ivan in the Caribbean published in selected leading UK newspapers in September 2004. Quantitative textual analysis have been utilised in this study to determine the main sources of information on...

Author: Marcella Daye 

Year: 2005 

9 Think Tank VII The Community of Communicators and the Communication o... file 10461 Oct 13, 2013

In spite of the trend towards business as a key element in society and tourism, governments still play an important role in the sustainable development debate. Like any social institution, governments and related organizations do not always ...

Author: Keith Henning 

Year: 2007 

8 Think Tank X New Media for Climate Change Communication and Collabo... file 6473 Oct 13, 2013

The Climate Change Collaboratory1 aims to strengthen the relations between Austrian scientists, policy makers, educators, environmental NGOs, news media and corporations - stakeholders who recognize the need for adaptation and mitigation, b...

Author: Arno Scharl 

Year: 2010 

» Think Tank X The Role of Face-to-face Communication and Networking ... file 5565 Oct 13, 2013

Despite the advent of improved electronic communications technology, face-to-face communication and networking remain the most effective means of enhancing business performance and innovation, particularly for more complex products. During ...

Author: Leo Jago & Margaret Deery 

Year: 2010 

6 Think Tank X Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a... file 5417 Oct 13, 2013

As climate change gains global attention from events like the summit in Copenhagen held during December of 2009, the need for sustainable tourism is more important than ever; with comprehensive education in sustainability concepts and practi...

Author: Cynthia S. Deale & Nelson Barber 

Year: 2010 

5 Think Tank XV A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas... file 6243 Jul 27, 2015

Philosophical and theoretical debates in tourism must be situated not just within economic and cultural contexts, but also political and social ones (Ataljevic, Pritchard & Morgan, 2007). Tourism is more than an ‘industry,’ Freya Higgins...

Author: Amy Savener 

Year: 2015 

4 Think Tank XVIII The Munich Streetlife Festival: A case study on a gree... file 4228 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: Green events, sustainability communication, theory of planned behaviour, transtheoretical model, structure equation model

Author: Elias Butzmann & Christina Tölkes 

Year: 2018 

3 Think Tank XVIII What to communicate about sustainability actions of Fi... file 15755 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: sustainability, responsibility, marketing, communication, Finland, villa holiday

Author: Katja Pasanen 

Year: 2018 

2 Think Tank XVIII Persuasive communication: an experiment on hotel guest... file 1787 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: personal values, smart water-saving technology, community-based social marketing, science communication, pro-environmental behaviour, field experiment.

Author: Pablo Pereira-Doel, Xavier Font & Candice Howarth 

Year: 2018 

1 Think Tank XVIII Sustainable Experience: Innovative sustainable communi... file 3864 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: Customer Experience, Sustainable Marketing, CSR, Communication, Hospitality Management

Author: Annkathrin Weiss & Matthias Straub 

Year: 2018 

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