Hotels, as a resource-intensive industry, have caused massive harm to the environment. Thus, there has been tremendous effort in creating “eco-friendly” awareness and initiating green practices hotel industry. However, how tourists perceive such initiatives relationship between tourists’ perception is not well established. By selecting awarded hotels Sri Lanka adopting stakeholder theory perspe...

Working papers are preliminary documents circulated to stimulate discussion and obtain comments The Sectoral Activities Department is part of the Social Dialogue Sector of the ILO. Its objective is to promote social dialogue at the sectoral level and to facilitate the exchange of information among the ILO's constituents on labour and social developments concerning particular economic sectors. O...

One of the common Web searches that have a strong local component is the search for hotel accommodation. Customers try to identify hotels that satisfy particular criteria, such as service, food quality, and so on. Unfortunately, today, the travel search engines provide only rudimentary ranking facilities, typically using a single ranking criterion such as distance from city center, number of st...

Salou, which is one of the many highly specialized tourist resorts located on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, is a hundred kilometres south of Barcelona. Within its narrow boundaries of 1.481 ha, Salou hosts 7.4 million overnight stays per year and is home to 52 hotels. A ratio which ranks Salou amongst the tenth most visited municipalities in Spain [1]. Distance from Salou’s historical town c...

BACKGROUND A certain level of public support for smoke-free environments is a prerequisite for adoption and enforcement of policies and can be used as an indicator of readiness for legislative action. This study assessed support for comprehensive smoke-free policies in a range of settings such as hotels and colleges among government workers in China and identified factors associated with suppor...

We address the problem of evaluating ranked top-k queries in description logics. The problem occurs whenever we allow queries such as “find cheap hotels close to the conference location” in which fuzzy predicates like cheap and close occur. We show how to efficiently compute the top-k answers of conjunctive queries with fuzzy predicates over DL-LITE like knowledge bases.