Lifestyle hotels: New paradigm of modern hotel industry

Lifestyle Hotels – New Paradigm of Modern Hotel Industry

The practice of modern hotel industry introduced to professional community the term “lifestyle” hotel. The paper deals with the essential meaning of this term. This raises the question of the difference between the lifestyle and boutique hotels which are in practice often identified. The paper aims to resolve the basic dilemma – whether lifestyle hotel can be treated as a special type of hotel,...

Health0: a New Health & Lifestyle Management Paradigm

PARADIGM Akshay Mohan, Rosalind Picard The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20 Ames Street, Cambridge MA 02139-4307 USA {amohan, picard}@media.mit.edu Abstract The paper describes Health0: an innovative healthcare and lifestyle management wearable system that aims to bring an individual focused approach to healthcare. A modular architecture is proposed that combines a Lin...

Web Services in Hotel Industry

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...

Fundamentals of the Hotel & Catering Industry

Brand Equity in the Pakistani Hotel Industry

Brand equity is considered as the most important aspect of branding, which is a set of brands’ assets and liabilities, its symbol or name that subtracts from or adds the value provided by a product or service to a firm and customers. The current research endeavor was to identify the interrelationship of customer-based brand equity dimensions (brand awareness, brand loyalty, brand image, and ser...