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) ...

This study proposes and tests an agency-based organizational model of internationalization through franchising in the hotel sector. Using data obtained from a Franchisor Questionnaire 2001-2008, we analyzed a panel of 117 observations of 17 U.S.-based hotels. Our analysis reveals that a hotel franchisor’s decision to internationalize through franchising is positively related to the percentage o...

Mobile services available on mobile devices such as mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants are a suitable instrument for spontaneous, ad-hoc access to information travellers need while being on the move. The supply of mobile services with specific relevance to the traveller is already well developed: Mobile Services allow to book last-minute trips, rental cars and hotels; they provide in...

Background: With the rapid development of the society, some excellent enterprises are having a growing demand for talents. The recruitment and selection of talents is always concerned by the managers of enterprises. Materials and methods: This study analyzed the human resource of hotels and introduced C4.5 algorithm in decision tree algorithm and its implementation procedures. Talents were sele...

This article presents a diagnosis of luxury or superior hotels in the city of Natal, located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in northeastern Brazil, in what concerns accessibility to the visually impaired. The main objective is to present the guiding principles to design actions and interventions that must be considered in the preparation or revision of technical standards and manuals of g...

A survey was conducted to compare hotel capital budgeting practices employed within and outside the hotel sector. It was found that the propensity to inflate investment cash inflow projections outweighs the propensity to deflate cash inflow estimates and the tendency to inflate projected cash inflows is less in the hotel industry. Hotels exhibit a lower level of development with respect to revi...

Organizations in practically every industry are now adopting Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems as a mission-critical business strategy. As CRM systems evolve from mere technology solutions used for capturing customer interactions into strategies aimed at deriving maximum value from them, businesses today realize the importance of these systems in attaining and sustaining competitiv...

Top-k spatial preference queries has a wide range of applications in service recommendation and decision support systems. In this work we first introduce three state of the art algorithms and apply them on a real data set which includes geographic coordinates and quality data of over 355 hotels, 276 point of interests and 563 restaurants in Lisbon, Portugal extracted from well-known TripAdvisor...