Includes articles on international business opportunities.

A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

For small- and medium-sized American companies, this book offers the information, insights and encouragement needed to start doing business in Asia's principal markets.

Marketing Issues in Pacific Area Tourism exposes researchers, tourism professionals, and students to the complexities of marketing issues in the most dynamic region in world tourism today. Dispelling commonly held Western assumptions, inviting new research, and stressing the importance of tourism development in this area to the economics of world tourism, this book shows you how and why this region has experienced such tremendous growth. Some of the larger countries you learn about include China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Since many of these countries are becoming not only generators of tourist demand but also new tourist receiving areas, this book covers both inbound and outbound markets. By discussing the opportunities and challenges facing tourism marketing professionals and researchers in the Pacific area, Marketing Issues in Pacific Area Tourism helps improve your effectiveness and understanding of conducting business in the Pacific region. Some of the factors you read about include: the increasing wealth and consumerism of a rapidly growing middle class in the Pacific area the relaxation of international travel restrictions how formerly insular governments of the region are awakening to the possibility of tourism. the potential impediments to sustainable tourism development in the region Marketing Issues in Pacific Area Tourism also helps you improve survey design and interpretation by stressing the importance of understanding the heterogenous nature of Asian culture when analyzing tourist behavior and motivation. It provides a different perspective of Pacific Region tourism, concentrating on the clash of culture between those of the region and a dominant Western way of doing business. Another valuable feature of this book is the presentation of a continuing and improving database from which to assess destination performance and visitor characteristics--thus allowing researchers to further identify important marketing opportunities and issues.

Walks you through the international direct marketing process. References hundreds of resources. Includes actual case studies of U.S. companies marketing their products and services directly to customers in other countries. Covers: understanding issues unique to international business; overview of international markets by region, and by selected countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the U.K.); market information sources; reaching the customer; pricing, accounting and legal considerations; sales transactions; and more.

The Asia & Japan Business Information Sourcebook lists a vast array of sources, including books, journals, periodicals, references, directories, databases, official reports, and more. Each source has been carefully researched and evaluated by Asia-Pacific business expert, Christopher Engholm. Each listing includes an analysis of the source, profiles of who it is best suited for - consultants, marketers, investors, risk analysts, software developers, etc. - and pricing and ordering information. To further facilitate your research, this ready reference is organized by region. Each section begins with an overview of regional economic conditions and recent trade and investment trends. And, within each section, sources are grouped by information categories, such as "Finance", or "Economy".