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...

intellectual capital (ic) is organizational intangible asset which is frequently associated with performance. ic is commonly categorized into three core components: human capital, structural capital and relational capital. this study takes a step further in the evolution of the ic model for the hotel industry and divides relationship capital into two categories: end customer- relationship capit...

Information cues about products influence consumer purchase decisions. Online review can enhance communication among consumers while affecting consumer perception by increasing awareness and reducing uncertainty. However, little is known on how Word-of-Mouth (WOM) and information cues interact, especially on experience goods like hotel rooms. To bridge this gap, we analyze data collected from E...

Over recent years, neuropsychological research has been increasingly concerned with the need to develop more ecologically valid instruments for the assessment of executive functions. The Hotel Task is one of the most widely used ecological measures of executive functioning, and provides an assessment of planning, organization, self-monitoring and cognitive flexibility. Objective The goal of t...

Online presence is essential for tourism organisations, and the quality of websites can influence customers. In the case of hotels, there are many studies to evaluate website performance based on functionality, usability and other factors, much less on the amount of different information available to the consumer. In the near future by using Big Data it is expected that hotel websites will be d...

As the Western Australian hotel sector continues to look for new opportunities, people with disabilities are being acknowledged as a consumer group with considerable revenue earning potential. The authors report on findings from the initial stages of a threepart methodology aimed at investigating current awareness of and provision for the disability issue within the Western Australian hotel sec...

A key factor in the success of the Web today is its simplicity and ease of use. This simplicity allows just about anyone to write and publish an HTML page and immediately see the results of their efforts. The next obvious step in the evolution of the web is to bring in semantics to describe the contents. This would allow not just sharing of information, but also support improved searching, extr...

Employee turnover is generally recognized as a costly phenomenon, and hotel companies consequently have initiated various turnover-reduction programs. Despite many studies, however, it remains difficult to assess exactly what effect turnover has on operating profits—and thus to assess the return on investment for initiatives designed to reduce turnover. An analysis of gross operating profits an...