Hotel Industry Demand Curves

Forecasting uncertain hotel room demand

Mihir Rajopadhye, Mounir Ben Ghaliay and Paul P. Wang Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0291 Timothy Baker and Craig V. Eister Bass Hotels and Resorts Atlanta, Georgia 30346-2149 Abstract Economic systems are characterized by increasing uncertainty in their dynamics. This increasing uncertainty is likely to incur bad decisions that ca...

Web Services in Hotel Industry

The hotel industry is in need of efficient, integrated, and economic supply chains and circulation processes. This paper introduces a project of integration of hotel management systems by web services technology. We discuss how web services will consent to the hotel industry by automating product distributions and providing better services to buyers, suppliers, and prospective partners. The pro...

Brand Equity in the Pakistani Hotel Industry

Brand equity is considered as the most important aspect of branding, which is a set of brands’ assets and liabilities, its symbol or name that subtracts from or adds the value provided by a product or service to a firm and customers. The current research endeavor was to identify the interrelationship of customer-based brand equity dimensions (brand awareness, brand loyalty, brand image, and ser...

Fundamentals of the Hotel & Catering Industry

Analyzing solid waste management practices for the hotel industry

The current study aims to analyze waste characteristics and management practices of the hotel industry in Hoi An, a tourism city in the center of Vietnam. Solid wastes from 120 hotels were sampled, the face-to-face interviews were conducted, and statistical methods were carried out to analyze the data. The results showed that the mean of waste generation rate of the hotels was 2.28 kg/guest/day...