Globalization has cause organizations between nations to be more integrated and interdependent than before. Taiwan, being an economy based on international trade, has abundant experience in international assignments among business organizations. Due to the changing environments, organizations developed various forms of international assignments. Other than the standard expatriate assignments, short-term assignments, international business travelers (IBT), commuter assignments, rotational assignments and virtual assignments are emerging alternatives to deal with international issues. The IBT is likely to be a big portion of international assignment used in Taiwan, as the number of business travel rises. A qualitative research was held and 11 IBTs from Taiwanese firms was interviewed. The findings are as follow: 1. The proportion of time spent overseas per year differs from IBTs with different backgrounds. 2. The positive factors of IBT work are increase of specialties training, increase of job satisfaction and the rise of personal development. 3. The negative factors of IBT work are pressing work schedules, culture and cognition gaps, time differences and abnormal work schedules, health and safety concerns, separation of family and friends and confliction between work and personal schedules. 4. The standard of travel class influences IBTs¡¦ perspective towards the job and also their life style. 5. IBT cannot totally be substituted.

This study estimates the demand for domestic air travel services in the United States in order to calculate the fare and expenditure elasticities of demand. We segmented the market according to number of operating airlines, distances and traveler types. Using Seemingly Unrelated Regression to estimate the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we find that the expenditure and uncompensated own-fare elasticities are around unity and consistent with the previous literature. Results reveal a tendency of uncompensated own-fare elasticity to decrease as distance increases, and a tendency of uncompensated own-fare elasticity to increase as number of airlines increases. Due to few observations, business travelers' results are not reliable to make any conclusion. Leisure travelers' results are closer to all travelers' results.

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商務旅館營運企劃書：以資訊系統建立顧客體驗與營運效率 / This business plan is about a privately run business hotel in Bangkok city, which is near the BITEC exhibition center area. It includes hotel summary, market analysis, strategy and implementation summary, and financial plan analysis. It is explicit that there has been a continual growth in the number of travelers coming to Thailand, and the trend is also happening to the number of businessmen, especially in Bangkok. Together with the beginning of free-trade economic community, Asean Economic Community (ACE), there will be a great potential for the demand of accommodations to grow. To start a business hotel in this industry at early stage is a great decision. With the special features of hotel guest rooms and amenities and hotel booking management system at a reasonable charge, we will target customers with lower level budget and break the existing luxury style business hotels in the Bangkok areas. Our value propositions are the outstanding IT management system to facilitate the business operation, and the strategic location which will create great experience and form long-term relationship with customers.