Purpose – This paper explores the usefulness of analyzing text-based online reviews using text mining tools and visual analytics for SWOT Analysis, as applied to the hotel industry. These results can be used to develop competitive actions. Design – The text mining/visualization tool, ReviewMap, was used to transform an archive of reviews spanning multiple suppliers into a hierarchy of data of i...

The study is developed to explore the extent of inclusion of food service practices in the product offer by Indian hotel industry and to find if these services depend on the organisational demographic characteristics. The study was limited to the hotels that provide sleeping accommodations and meal options in India. The respondents were 200 food and beverage managers of these businesses. The fi...

BACKGROUND In spring 2002, WONCA Europe, the European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine and its Network organizations reached consensus on a 'new' European definition of general practice. Subsequently, the European General Practice Research Workshop (EGPRW) started working on a European General Practice Research Agenda. This topic was addressed during the 2002 EGPRW autumn meeting. ...

The genus Heringina Aczél, 1940 is revised and shown to belong to the Tephritis group of genera and is closely related to Tephritis and Multireticula. Literature records are revised, and available collection material is listed. The genus includes two species: H. guttata (Fallén 1814) originally described from the sand dunes of southern Sweden and occurring from the Baltic region through Ukraine...

The introduction of the euro as a single currency unit among the members of the EU was considered as a cornerstone of the fiscal policy of the European community and especially for the Greek economy. The present study considers the impact of the drachma’s replacement by the euro on the quality of accounting information (namely the value relevance of accounting amounts and the timely loss recogn...

contemporary architecture by symbolic and visual design creates an image in the minds of tourists so that these images are then converted to urban brands. combining symbolic monuments and modern buildings in the world today is a promising development of cities in many municipalities, municipalities and government agencies to freely and without regard to the needs of their local employs all the ...

Skyline query processing has been investigated extensively in recent years, mostly for only one query reference point. An example of a single-source skyline query is to find hotels which are cheap and close to the beach (an absolute query), or close to a user-given location (a relatively query). A multi-source skyline query considers several query points at the same time In this paper, we consi...

Complex structure of ownership like cross-ownership, rings, and pyramids are common in Continental Europe, Eastern Europe, and in Asia. This paper aims at dissecting these complex features by a proper measurement of direct and indirect holdings. Building on Brioschi et al. (1989), we use the input-output matrix methodology and we add control considerations in the matrix calculations to derive a...

The use of antimicrobial compounds in textiles has grown dramatically over the last decades. The potential application field is wide. It ranges from industrial textiles exposed to weather such as awnings, screens and tents; upholstery used in large public areas such as hospitals, hotels and stations; fabrics for transports; protective clothing and personal protective equipment; bed sheets and b...

In the Internet age, e-commerce provides customers global reach to a wide variety of products and plays a dominant role in business activity and competition. Competition is especially aggressive in the online travel domain where wholesalers, e.g. brokerage companies, contract through their contract managers with thousands of hotel brands and trade hotel products (usually hotel nights) for trave...