Abstacts from the Northern Ireland Surgical Trainees Prize Day, which was held on Friday 14 November 2003 and hosted by Altnagelvin Area Hospital at the City Hotel, Londonderry. Thirtynine abstracts were submitted of which eleven were accepted for presentation on the day. There were six in the SHO section and five in the Specialist Registrar section. Winner of the SHO section was Dr Peter Mallo...

The 5th Annual Saudi Epilepsy Society Conference, and the 1st GCC Epilepsy Conference was held in Le-Meridian Hotel, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 7th-9th November, 2015 organized by Saudi Epilepsy Society in collaboration with the Department of Pediatric Neurology, Neuroscience Center, King Fahd Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The scientific program was loaded with innovativ...

the present study was designed in quasi-experiment to assess adoption of the essential clauses of particular clinical laboratory quality management requirements based on international organization for standardization (iso 15189) in hospital laboratories and to evaluate the cost effectiveness of compliance to iso 15189.the quality management intervention based on iso 15189 was conceded through t...

The current study aims to analyze waste characteristics and management practices of the hotel industry in Hoi An, a tourism city in the center of Vietnam. Solid wastes from 120 hotels were sampled, the face-to-face interviews were conducted, and statistical methods were carried out to analyze the data. The results showed that the mean of waste generation rate of the hotels was 2.28 kg/guest/day...

Information technology (IT) is an important strategic asset for hospitality organisations to improve organisational performance and strategic competitiveness. This paper makes an attempt to investigate the relationship between antecedents including information system quality, perceived value, and users’ acceptance of hotel front office systems (HFOSs) by adopting an extended technology acceptan...

The hotel industry in China has experienced rapid growth in the past ten years and made a considerable contribution to the global tourism economy. This paper focuses on the energy performance of hotel buildings in Lijiang, China. Hotel characteristics, daily operational data, and energy use data were collected by carrying out a survey of 24 hotels. The average annual energy use intensity (EUI) ...

Hotel industry of Pakistan has contributed significantly to Pakistan’s national revenue. The current study focuses on measuring two dimensions of customer-based-brand-equity i.e. brand loyalty and brand image, and, factors of perceived value of the visitors in Pakistan’s hotel industry. Brands are valuable assets that add economic and strategic value for its proprietors which can be achieved th...

Friendships with competitors can improve the performance of organizations through the mechanisms of enhanced collaboration, mitigated competition, and better information exchange. Moreover, these benefits are best achieved when competing managers are embedded in a cohesive network of friendships (i.e., one with many friendships among competitors), since cohesion facilitates the verification of ...

Forecasting hotel arrivals and occupancy is an important component in hotel revenue management systems. In this paper we propose a new Monte Carlo simulation approach for the arrivals and occupancy forecasting problem. In this approach we simulate the hotel reservations process forward in time, and these future Monte Carlo paths will yield forecast densities. A key step for the faithful emulati...

Based on relative research literature reviews about the development and functions of foreign hotel CRS, combining with the basic situation of China hotel industry and according to the clients’ functional requirements to CRS, the functional factor model of CRS in the application of China hotel group is explored in the article. The research methods mainly include literature review, interviews, qu...