Software

Thank you for visiting the software pages of the Institute for Tourism and Leisure Studies (ITF).

You will prefer to read the Overview first. All the programs available are mentioned below with a short explanation.

Free download of the programs we have been using for several years in the marketing and tourism graduate courses of the Institute for Tourism and Leisure Studies for marketing research purposes.

PLEASE NOTE that after 30 September, 2010, the most recent versions of the scripts and programs will only be available from https://raptor.mazanec.com.

Installation

The programs offered by the Institute are in self-extracting compressed or zipped format. Proceed as follows:

  1. prepare a directory on your harddisk where you want to place the program

  2. copy the downloaded file (filename.exe, filename.zip) into this directory

  3. execute or unzip the downloaded file

  4. delete the compressed file (filename.exe, filename.zip)

  5. execute the installation program (setup.exe) where applicable

  6. read the README file where applicable

Overview

BinCom

A tandem procedure for analyzing binary data with response pattern counting and subsequent clustering.

CurVit for Windows

A very simple program for curve fitting for time-dependent forecasting and trend extrapolation.

DTRN for dynamic partitioning

A Matlab routine implementing a dynamic version of the Topology Representing Network (see below).

Gini

is a very simple program to compute the Gini coefficient.

GoogleSearch

offers a number of R functions and scripts for capturing keyword (co-)occurrences via the Google search engine plus a non-disjunctive clustering routine.

Industry Attractiveness Analysis for Windows

A program for producing multi-factor portfolio diagrams which provides a consistency check of the user's input of subjective weightings.

LinSat for Java

Estimates four linear(izable) functions and logistic/Gompertz saturation models for trend extrapolation.

Portfolio for Windows

A simple portfolio program for generating growth-share diagrams. The data originate from Excel/Lotus spreadsheets.

PSOM for Windows

A Matlab implementation of the Parameterless Self-Organizing Map (beta version).

SIMSEG for Windows

A trial version of a computer simulation game to train segmentation/positioning analysis and decision making.

SOMnia for Windows

An easy-to-use neurocomputing program for analyses with Self-Organizing Feature Maps.

TourMIS Auto-Reporting for Windows

TourMIS Auto-Reporting automatically generates reports by applying rules to selected data of the Tourism Marketing Information System TourMIS.

TRN32 for Windows

TRN32 performs a topology-sensitive vector quantization like the SOM, but with adjacency (un)learning.

guestmix

R scripts and data for chapter 8 of "Analysing International City Tourism".