Modern trends in 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,...

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...

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...

Fundamentals of the Hotel & Catering Industry

Modern trends in leprosy.

Modern Trends in Leprosy. SIR-I have read with much interest the above paper by Dr D. G. Jamison (Postgrad. med. J., 1969, 45, 408). On page 412 the author says: 'The Mycobacterium leprae has for generations been assumed to enter the body through the skin. Recently various other routes have been proposed (Weddell et al., 1963) such as the intestinal and respiratory tracts; and in babies, breast...