It is essential for hotel companies to evaluate and improve website performance in order to keep and increase their online presence and competitiveness in the marketplace. This article proposes an evaluation framework for hotel websites, which categorizes web information services into six information dimensions and also uses managers’ and users’ views. Based on the relative literature, the mode...

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 tourism industry is characterized by severe shifts in demand that play havoc with forecasting future investment. Within the tourism industry, the need for large-scale initial capital investment in the hotel sector, make the latter particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of the tourism market. Given an up-turn in demand, the hotel industry cannot always respond immediately and its' response ...

Internet is an important tool for information searching and purchasing of products especially in tourism. This paper investigates the impact of demographic and travel characteristics of hotel guests on online and offline reservations. It also examines the importance of hotel attributes in selecting a hotel and the differences in priorities between guests who book their accommodation online and ...

This contribution aims to provide an analysis of the current state of web accessibility in the tourism industry with the focus on the Austrian hotel sector. The results of the conducted study verify previous research, showing that tourism organizations considerably lack awareness of web accessibility. A three dimensional hotel categorization model on accessibility is introduced to encompass the...

The long term evaluation of the Sacarino robot is presented in this paper. This study aimed to improve the robot‘s capabilities as a bellboy in a hotel; walking alongside the guests, providing information about the city and the hotel and providing hotel-related services. The paper establishes a three-stage assessment methodology based on the continuous measurement of a set of metrics regarding ...

The recent growth of internet applications on hospitality and tourism provokes on-line consumer comments and reviews. Many researchers and practitioners have named this enormous potential as “e-WOM (electronic word of mouth)”. Travel comments are important experiential information for the potential travellers. Many researches have been conducted to analyse the effects of e-WOM on hotel consumer...

a r t i c l e i n f o The hotel industry has been hit hard by the economic recession. Given the economic challenges facing businesses have not been seen since the Great Depression, hotel executives are making unstructured or first-time decisions, responding to the current business climate. Using McCracken's (1988) long interview method, four Pacific Asia hotel executives provide insights of how...

Applications or services which take into account the current location will become increasingly popular in the future. Especially mobile phone providers expect a huge market for such services. Typical applications answer questions like “Where is the nearest hotel?” or “Who of my friends is in proximity?”. Further examples are city guides or navigation systems. Currently, the development of such ...

The paper presents the hotel complex building reconstruction main stages. self-supporting wall stress-strain state analysis is carried out, taking into account organization of additional doorways in it. optimal parameters their location are given arising stress concentrators. procedure for performing production works given.