The purpose of this study is to investigate the barriers and the sources of resistance to information technology (IT) change projects in hotel firms and evaluate strategies adopted in seeking to overcome these barriers. Based on an in-depth literature review, the authors developed an interview protocol. The authors collected empirical data from the Information Technology Managers and the Hotel ...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate whether males and females differ on the emphases they place on core service and relational service in choosing a hotel. Design/Methodology – Data were gathered from the residents of a metro area in the United States. Three hundred and forty-one residents participated in the study. The Del statistic, an undertapped technique, was used. Findin...

Abstract The hotel industry undeniably holds strong market power. Its economic impact can affect the infrastructural, economic, and digital development of a particular region. In addition to numerous advantages, has also posed certain challenges for industry, such as fierce competition struggle power, which in turn lead constant searching new beneficial solutions. Hotel websites need be good qu...

The main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (FMCDM) model for international tourist hotel location selection. In this article we created 21 criteria for selecting the international tourist hotel location acquired from literatures review and practical investigations. And the methods of fuzzy set theory, linguistic value, hierarchical structure analysis, an...

The arrivals forecast is one of the key inputs for a successful hotel revenue management system, but no research on the best forecasting method has been conducted. In this research, we used data from Choice Hotels and Marriott Hotels to test a variety of forecasting methods and to determine the most accurate method. Preliminary results using the Choice Hotel data show that pickup methods and re...

Article is focused on factors influencing competition and competitiveness of a hotel. In contrast to other different approaches, author describe the range affecting hotel at highly competitive unstable demand environment, based her professional experience deep knowledge economics marketing hospitality industry. The main indicators that are vital in were analyzing. Main focus was given environme...

Any compensation mechanism that is intended to reward superior investment performance can be gamed by managers who have no superior information or predictive ability; moreover they can capture a sizable amount of the fees intended for the superior managers. We derive precise bounds on the size of this coat‐tail effect and show that it remains substantial even when payments are postponed, bonuse...

What are the equilibrium features of a dynamic …nancial market in which traders care about their reputation for ability? We modify a standard sequential trading model to include traders with career concerns. We show that this market cannot be informationally e¢ cient: there is no equilibrium in which prices converge to the true value, even after an in…nite sequence of trades. We characterize th...

BACKGROUND From our experience the toilet paper is folded in the bathrooms in rooms in branded hotels. We aimed to study the total time yearly spent in the world on folding hotel toilet paper. METHOD Three investigators clocked 60 folding toilet paper events and calculated the mean time. The mean folding time was 5.73 s (interquartile range 4.50-6.56). Using the calculated extra time it takes...