The purpose of this study is to investigate the barriers and the sources of resistance to information technology (IT) change projects in hotel firms and evaluate strategies adopted in seeking to overcome these barriers. Based on an in-depth literature review, the authors developed an interview protocol. The authors collected empirical data from the Information Technology Managers and the Hotel ...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate whether males and females differ on the emphases they place on core service and relational service in choosing a hotel. Design/Methodology – Data were gathered from the residents of a metro area in the United States. Three hundred and forty-one residents participated in the study. The Del statistic, an undertapped technique, was used. Findin...

The arrivals forecast is one of the key inputs for a successful hotel revenue management system, but no research on the best forecasting method has been conducted. In this research, we used data from Choice Hotels and Marriott Hotels to test a variety of forecasting methods and to determine the most accurate method. Preliminary results using the Choice Hotel data show that pickup methods and re...

Spatial database management system (SDBMS) contains spatial data in space and provides special storage for handling the spatial data. With the perception of users attraction towards few best objects rather than a large list of best objects as a result, in this paper, we propose an approach to generate top k ranking of spatial data for selected location based on quality of features. Search Algor...

Any compensation mechanism that is intended to reward superior investment performance can be gamed by managers who have no superior information or predictive ability; moreover they can capture a sizable amount of the fees intended for the superior managers. We derive precise bounds on the size of this coat‐tail effect and show that it remains substantial even when payments are postponed, bonuse...

What are the equilibrium features of a dynamic …nancial market in which traders care about their reputation for ability? We modify a standard sequential trading model to include traders with career concerns. We show that this market cannot be informationally e¢ cient: there is no equilibrium in which prices converge to the true value, even after an in…nite sequence of trades. We characterize th...

This study explores the hotel selection patterns of leisure travellers to understand their loyalty or variety seeking intentions and profile them through key characteristics, factors that influence consumption patterns. While data were collected via focus groups, twenty-two participants purposively sampled based on criteria-Australian who have been same international destination three times mor...

BACKGROUND From our experience the toilet paper is folded in the bathrooms in rooms in branded hotels. We aimed to study the total time yearly spent in the world on folding hotel toilet paper. METHOD Three investigators clocked 60 folding toilet paper events and calculated the mean time. The mean folding time was 5.73 s (interquartile range 4.50-6.56). Using the calculated extra time it takes...

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) has the potential to be used at run-time, to monitor and verify particular aspects of run-time behaviour. Models at run-time provide a kind of formal basis for reasoning about the current system state at run-time, for reasoning about necessary adaptations, and for analyzing or predicting the consequences of possible system adaptations. However, we believe that mod...