The second order formal context is a formal context such that its object and attribute sets are disjoint unions of object and attribute sets of external formal contexts. Every subset of object or attribute set will be evaluated from concept lattice of corresponding external formal context. The paper provides a method how to compute such second order formal concepts by using of bonds between ext...

The hospitality industry has become very competitive these days due to global creativity and innovations deployed in the delivery of services teeming customers. To meet up with tasking demands remaining afloat business, managers hotels are considering best or appropriate recruitment strategies woo competent amenable personnel who can apply new methods rendering required services. Hence, this st...

AIMS An evaluation was made of the prevalence of Legionella species in hot water distribution systems in the city of Bologna (Italy) and their possible association with bacterial contamination (total counts and Pseudomonadaceae) and the chemical characteristics of the water (pH, Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn and Total Organic Carbon, TOC). METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 137 hot water samples were an...

A cross-sectional multicenter survey of Italian hotels was conducted to investigate Legionella spp. contamination of hot water. Chemical parameters (hardness, free chlorine concentration, and trace element concentrations), water systems, and building characteristics were evaluated to study risk factors for colonization. The hot water systems of Italian hotels were strongly colonized by Legionel...

This paper assessed roles budget target setting plays in effective performance measurement in Nigerian hotel industry. The survey research method was adopted for this study. The study population consisted of all the managers, Accountants, Account and Finance, personnel and other hoteliers of hotels located in Kaduna state. The sample size consisted of fifty respondents drawn from ten selected h...

User-Generated Content (UGC) is changing the way consumers shop for goods. It is increasingly being recognized that the textual content of product reviews is an important determinant of consumers’ choices, over and above any numeric information. Similarly, websites that facilitate the creation of social tags by users can influence the desirability of a product or service. Moreover, one can harn...

We examine the relationship between employee supervision and compensation by taking advantage of the structure of the hotel industry, in which many chains have both company managed and franchised properties. Given that supervision is less rigorous at company managed establishments, we estimate differences in wages and human resource practices not only across company managed and franchised hotel...

Hotels can apply revenue-management systems to their function spaces—and boost the revenue contribution from those spaces.

This paper presents a fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (FMCDM) model by integrating both subjective and objective weights for ranking and evaluating the service quality in hotels. The objective method selects weights of criteria through mathematical calculation, while the subjective method uses judgments of decision makers. In this paper, we use a combination of weights ob...

poorinformative websites of hotels in iranian tourist destinations has turned to a deterrent factor in attracting potential tourists from all over the world. the main goal of this study was to identify effective solutions for improving the informative effectiveness of iranian top hotels’ websites based on interviews with 25 hotel managers (i.e. ceos, public relations managers and it managers). ...