This paper describes a quantitative method of measurement and evaluation of the information provided by hotel websites. It aims to measure the richness of specific and comprehensive information dimensions, which as a whole constitute the information services offered through the web. Data from an extended web search along with responses of hotel managers regarding the importance of the offered i...

BACKGROUND A variety of occupational groups have been shown to experience elevated risks of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD). Little information on WMSD is available in hotel restaurant workers. OBJECTIVE To document the profile of WMSD in a sample of hotel restaurant workers in Taiwan. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was used to gather information regarding body site...

The hotel industry is a key sector in the tourism industry because it is essential for the supplying of all other tourism services and it is the first service demanded by tourists who reach the destination. To assess hotel’s performance appears a hard task, because of the presence of many factors to consider, economic but also less tangible. The aim of the research is to verify the correlation ...

To compete with the international market place, it is crucial for hotel industry to be able to continually improve its services for tourism. In order to construct an electronic marketplace (e-market), it is an inherent requirement to build a correct architecture with a proper approach of an intelligent systems embedded on it. This paper introduces a web based intelligent that helps in maintaini...

The vastly increasing number of online hotel room bookings are not only intensifying the competition in the travel industry as a whole, but also prompt travel intermediates (i.e. e-companies that aggregate information about different travel products from different travel suppliers) into a fierce competition for the best prices of travel products, i.e. hotel rooms. An important factor that affec...

Marriott International’s Group Pricing Optimizer (GPO), a decision support system, provides guidance to Marriott personnel on pricing hotel rooms for group customers. GPO uses demand segmentation, price-elasticity modeling, and optimization techniques to recommend an optimal rate. In operation since late 2006, the system has improved Marriott’s hotel profitability and enhanced the sales process...

This project develops a hybrid model that combines content-based with collaborative filtering (CF) for hotel recommendation. This model considers both hotel popularity in input destination and users preference. It produces the prediction with 53.6% accuracy on test data-4% improvement on purely content-based model. Addtionally, three issues are well-resolved when implementing CF: sparsity in ut...

In view of the serious environmental problems we are currently facing, taking action to protect our planet is becoming more persuasive and important. Along with various environmental initiatives, the concept of green marketing emerged in the late 1980s. Some hotels have taken various initiatives to position themselves as green hotels, including the use of eco-labels as a marketing ploy to attra...

This study aims to investigate the key attributes of a steadily growing hotel sector (lifestyle hotels), which has shown great success in global competitive market, by analyzing user-created content on Instagram. The dataset used this were prepared from total 20,999 lifestyle posts and 24,262 boutique created 2013 2020 retrieved using Python web crawler. locations, hashtags, image data analyzed...