A survey was conducted to compare hotel capital budgeting practices employed within and outside the hotel sector. It was found that the propensity to inflate investment cash inflow projections outweighs the propensity to deflate cash inflow estimates and the tendency to inflate projected cash inflows is less in the hotel industry. Hotels exhibit a lower level of development with respect to revi...

Hotel demand in large urban markets does respond to changes in income, but that demand is relatively inelastic, according to an analysis of 22 top metropolitan areas in the United States. The analysis, made possible through Smith Travel Research, examined room-night demand for 480 individual hotels from 1989 through 2000 and compared that demand to a set of economic measures, including gross do...

I am a clinical psychologist, trained to watch and observe others, as well as to sit back, as it were, and to observe my own feelings and behaviour. A few weeks ago I had my first baby. I want to set down some thoughts in connection with the care I got at the hospital while the event is still fresh in my mind. Firstly, I should like to pay tribute to the nurses working in the maternity wards, w...

conclusions the patient cost increased as the length of stay increased due to the policy of bundle pricing. results the female/male ratio was 2.55. the mean age of the 71 poisoned patients was 28.92 ± 11.51 years. most of the poisoning agents were pharmaceuticals (68 cases). among the pharmaceuticals, antidepressants were involved most often, followed by analgesics. there was no statistically s...

The hospitality industry is one that has been driven by customer loyalty. Many customers pick their hotel of choice and will stay with that same hotel because of the experiences, service, and even the price. Customers have recently been rewarded through hotel, credit card, and airline points that help drive and maintain this loyalty. Utilizing data to their advantage, the hotel industry has bee...

The ability to efficiently process presuppositions, which contain information that the speaker believes to be in the background to the conversation, is essential for effective communication. To get a deeper understanding of the nature and the time-course of temporal presupposition processing, we examined event-related potential evoked by the word again in two types of sentence contexts. The wor...

Qualitative interview data secured from 14 HR managers representing large hotels located in Australia’s Gold Coast has been collected to examine: (1) what is the extent and nature of change in hotel HR performance measurement systems, and (2) what are the primary challenges confronted by hotel HR managers when attempting to implement effective HR performance measurement? Perennial HR problems s...

This study aimed to examine the relationship between macroeconomic and nonmacroeconomic variables and hotel stock returns using hotel companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The regression analysis indicated that among the macroeconomic variables (i.e., money supply, the growth rate of industrial production, expected inflation, the change of unemployment rate, and the yield spread), only...

Out of Town Meeting of the Ulster Paediatric Society, Friday 8th and Saturday 9th May 2009. Shandon Hotel, Dunfanaghy, Ireland PROGRAMME: Friday 8 May 6.30pm Welcome – President: Dr Denis Carson 6.35pm 7.00pm Presented Abstract 1 7.00pm 8.00pm Guest speaker: Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of hyperinsulaemic, hypoglycaemia. Dr K Hussain, Institute of Child Health, University Col...

Chunfa Huang, Aleksandra Sindic, Ceredwyn E. Hill, Kristine M. Hujer, Kim W. Chan, Martin Sassen, Zhenzhen Wu, Yoshihisa Kurachi, Soren Nielsen, Michael F. Romero, and R. Tyler Miller Department of Medicine and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Rammelkamp Center for Research and Education, MetroHealth Syst...