Hotel managers continue to find ways to understand traveler preferences, with the aim of improving their strategic planning, marketing, and product development. Traveler preference is unpredictable; for example, hotel guests used to prefer having a telephone in the room, but now favor fast Internet connection. Changes in preference influence the performance of hotel businesses, thus creating th...

In the U.S., local governments regulate private land use mainly through zoning. By creating a barrier to entry and lessening competition in local business markets, their regulation has the potential to generate a distortion. This paper assesses the empirical relevance of this hypothesis using microdata on midscale Texas chain hotels and land use regulation data collected from their local munici...

In the present paper, first the conceptual model of perceived value concept as a mediating variable in tourist perceptions of hotel services is presented and afterwards tested with structural equation modelling. The study reveals that: (a) the relationship between perceived hotel quality and perceived value is strong and positive; (b) the relationship between hotel quality and guest satisfactio...

Today, service companies like hotel chains, tour operators, insurance companies, and banks have to deal with tough competition in their respective markets. To survive in this situation the companies’ business models, cost reduction initiatives, and efforts for increasing revenues require continuous adjustments. Otherwise, these companies might fall prey to the ongoing consolidation process. Due...

For each hotel, we have the following information: ? Name: the name of the luxury hotel; ? Total of negative words (criterion 1): the total number of negative words in all the comments given by the clients of this hotel. (criterion to be minimized); ? Total of positive words (criterion 2): the total number of positive words in all the comments given by the clients of this hotel. (criterion to b...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of consumers’ perceptions of usefulness, ease of use, entertainment and transaction cost on consumers’ responses towards hotel websites. Data were collected through an online survey from a total of 234 university students in Greece. Structural equation modelling was used to evaluate the research model and test the research hypotheses. The deve...

from land and housing prices, and interpret transport costs broadly to include the costs of consuming a wide variety of goods. For goods that are available only in the city (such as fine restaurants and unique entertainment), their cost for those outside the city includes airfare and hotel bills. 14. There is one other equilibrium between and where the real wage gap is zero, but it is unstable....

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...

Service quality is a factor for measuring customer satisfaction in hotel industry. Therefore, in order to achieve competitive advantage and maintain customers, improving service quality has become an important tool in hotel industry to achieve customer satisfaction which is lead to customer loyalty. Because companies are developing close relationships with suppliers and customers. Since then th...