BACKGROUND In March 2007, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health was notified of Swedish individuals diagnosed with cryptosporidiosis after staying at a Norwegian hotel. In Norway, cryptosporidiosis is not reportable, and human infections are rarely diagnosed. METHODS A questionnaire on illness and exposure history was e-mailed to seven organised groups who had visited the hotel in March. C...

Copyright © 2014, Kowsar Corp.; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. During my much needed vacation in northern Iran, at the first leg of the journey, we stayed at a hotel complex ...

M-commerce (mobile commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services through wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephone and personal digital assistants PDA. M-commerce provides lot of services like Mobile ticketing, Mobile banking, Mobile location based services, Mobile auctions, Mobile purchasing and so on. This represents an incredible opportunity to enable mobile devices, a...

Eco-hotels are promoted to minimize the negative impacts on the environment. The author, therefore, makes a critical study of English eco-hotel profiles in order to decode the ecological thoughts embodied in the profiles. Based on Fairclough’s three-dimensional model, this study follows the three steps: description of linguistic features in terms of transitivity, interpretation of ecological th...

Owning to similar business nature, it should be possible to directly migrate successful airline revenue management techniques to the hotel domain. However, one of the salient di0erences between airlines and hotels is rarely highlighted—the network structure of length of stay or the displacement e0ect. The hotel patrons go from a 4rst stay-over night to a last stay-over night in consecutive nigh...

Video image has the advantage of large amount of information, good real-time performance and low cost, so automatic people counting based on video image has very high practical value, and many scholars have done a large number of experiments and studies on this and achieved certain achievements. But for scenes with more occlusion and background changing quickly and without obvious rules, it’s d...

(ASART), and Technical Advisor of the Federation of European Cities' Tourist Offices (FECTO). His main research activities are in the fields of decision support systems, strategic marketing planning , and evolutionary computation particularly with applications in city tourism and hospitality management. 2 Abstract In this paper the author introduces a heuristic procedure for the identification ...

Using five years of data collected from a small and independent hotel in The Netherlands this case study explores RMS data as a means to seek new insights into occupancy forecasting. The study provides an insight into the random nature of group cancellations, an important but neglected aspect in hotel revenue management modeling. The empirical study also shows that in a local market context dem...