Expanding Market Awareness I do not mean paying for PR here, but a signal to success is if there is a growing organic awareness within a company's market about its product/service, and an increase in the "inbound" activity the new venture attracts.
"With the deterioration in inbound travel demand as well as increasing domestic yield pressure, there is much resting on the turnaround of the international business, not least from the ratings agencies," analysts at Credit Suisse in Sydney wrote last week in a research note.
Although polls show that an increasing number of Hong Kong residents hold pessimistic views about the city's future and Hong Kong-mainland relations, in "Inbound Troubles" the two cousins gradually acclimate to each other, with the one from the mainland adapting to local ways.
There was a drop by 33%% in inbound car traffic (65,000 70,000 trips that are no longer made),17 a decrease in traffic congestion, and an increase in the mean speed in the inner city (Leape 2006).
Investors, or anyone else with a high status or public profile, in general, are already dealing with an overabundance of connection requests via other channels, and aren't looking to increase that inbound flow.
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"This year will be the first since 2000 that we're going to see increases in every travel category," including inbound and outbound tourism and overall spending, she said.
He says the company has "seen an increasing number of inbound inquiries from strategic partners in recent months" with the proposals for advertising "so varied we haven't sorted out which serves the company best".
Big pharmaceutical companies use in-licensing (inbound innovation) as a main contractual form.
SmartThings said it expects the amount of money in the prize pot to increase further in the near future via inbound sponsorship cash.
