A number of decentralized peer-to-peer markets, now colloquially known as the sharing economy, have emerged as alternative suppliers of goods and services traditionally provided by long-established industries. A central question surrounding the sharing economy regards its long-term impact: will peer-to-peer platforms materialize as viable mainstream alternatives to traditional providers, or wil...

The Compass2008 project is a sino-german cooperation, aiming at integrating advanced information technologies to create a hightech information system that helps visitors to access location-sensitive information services during the 2008 Olympic Games in their preferred language, offering a variety of service-adaptive modalities available on the mobile devices. In this paper, we demonstrate one o...

Adaptation of a component-based system can be achieved in the coordination modelling language Paradigm through the special component McPal. McPal regulates the propagation of new behaviour and guides the changes in the components and in their coordination. Here we show how McPal may delegate part of its control to local adaptation managers, created on-the-fly, allowing for distribution of the a...

Travellers are becoming more price sensitive, less brand loyal and more sophisticated. To enhance guest loyalty, hotels must focus on developing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategies that aim to seek, gather, store and share guest information throughout the entire organisation for creating personalised, unique guests experiences. Although CRM in the hospitality industry has been def...

In Guangdong province, many hot springs were exploited and developed into popular places for tourist. In addition, hotels have been set up near hot spring sites to attract people, including local citizens, to spend their spare time inside these so-called “spring hotels”. In our study, indoor air quality was investigated in four hot spring hotels in Guangdong province, China. Measured indoor pol...

The contribution of travel and tourism industry to Rwanda’s GDP increased from 4.7% in 2000 15.1% 2019 with an average annual rate 7.02%. It is evident that the hospitality relies on use information communication technologies marketing, promotional activities, sales creation relationships their customers. However, there has been limited research assess social media networks performance Rwanda. ...

Parapat is a village in Girsang Sipangan Bolon District, Simalungun Regency. In the Master Plan of Priority Tourism Destinations (RIDPP) Lake Toba 2020-2045, became one Key Area (KTA) supporting Destination (DPP). DPP ten that government has set achieving tourism development goals. So aggressively developing Indonesia to be increasingly known both nationally and internationally, more directed t...