Hotel location in tourism cities

Location Based Information Delivery in Tourism

Context in Mobile tourist information systems is captured as the current location of the user. Traveling to a country every one has a number of locations where they want to travel. Therefore a traveling plan is necessary to select nearby point of interests like accommodation places, tourist places, transportation facilities, medical facilities. In this paper a Location based information deliver...

Industrial tourism development in Cities: towards a Framework

Trust- and Location-Based Recommendations for Tourism

Recommender systems in a travel guide suggest touristic sites a user may like. Typically, people are more willing to trust recommendations from people they know. We present a trust-based recommendation service for a mobile tourist guide that uses the notion of directly and indirectly trusted peers. The recommendations combine information about the peers ratings on sights, interpersonal trust an...

Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy

Received: 25 November 2011 Revised: 19 February 2013 Accepted: 20 February 2013 Online publication date: 18 April 2013 Abstract We combine the concept of location derived by economic geographers with theories of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and the liability of foreignness developed by international business scholars, to examine the factors that propel MNEs toward, or away from, “global c...

Forecasting Tourism Demand in the Short Term: the Case of Andalusian Hotel Establishments

Policy makers and businessmen demand real-time information and short-term forecasts about bed-nights occupied and the occupancy rate in hotel establishments (the latter being the percentage ratio of the number of bed nights occupied to the number of bed-nights on offer in the same period, usually one month). So, when these forecasts are obtained using single equations time series models, implic...