It is essential for hotel companies to evaluate and improve website performance in order to keep and increase their online presence and competitiveness in the marketplace. Based on the relative literature, in this article, the authors adapt the Web Assessment Index (WAI) to evaluate the attractiveness of the hotel websites. This has been validated in other studies in the literature, and measure...

Bedbugs are found in many countries around the world, and in some regions they are resistant to numerous insecticides. This study surveyed bedbugs in Thailand and determined their resistance to insecticides. The surveys were carried out in six provinces that attract large numbers of foreign tourists: Bangkok, Chonburi, Chiang Mai, Ubon Ratchathani, Phuket, and Krabi. Bedbugs were collected from...

H otels traditionally use a variety of different distribution channels, including distributing through other properties within their chain, joining marketing consortia or other types of affiliation organizations, or outsourcing to representation or third-parry reservation companies. Most hotels also use intermediaries such as travel agents, tour operators, or incentive houses. Increasingly, hot...

The aim of this work is to find what services could be offered through hotel establishments to determined collectives of customers. In order to do this, we have studied the current situation with the report of hotels established by official category from one to five stars for the last five years in Spain (2007-2012). Second, we analyzed different typologies of customers with characteristics and...

The practice of modern hotel industry introduced to professional community the term “lifestyle” hotel. The paper deals with the essential meaning of this term. This raises the question of the difference between the lifestyle and boutique hotels which are in practice often identified. The paper aims to resolve the basic dilemma – whether lifestyle hotel can be treated as a special type of hotel,...

This article aims at to analyze the process of resignification cultural landscape Italian municipality Santo Stefano di Sessanio, between 1999 and 2014. After a background both economic demographic decline started late XIX century, place has been experimenting since beginning current century set touristic  interventions which deal for evoking historicity of  local from its morphologic...

This paper presents a model of dislocated restaurant created based on hotels in Italy. aims to provide an innovative solution for new initiatives the food and beverage industry experiencing great losses due Covid 19 epidemic. The study uses existing hotel adopts it restaurants, analyses synthesis developing defining concepts. private dining represents hybrid modification between classic à la ca...

This article draws upon Diffusion of Innovations and Configurational theories to investigate how website features and email responses by 200 Swiss hotels reflect evolving Internet adoption. Complementary multivariate and artificial neural network (ANN) techniques support classifying the hotels into three clusters based on their website features. These clusters and the results of a structural eq...

In this study we investigate the phenomenon of biased listing. Biased listing describes the practice of listing items in search engines or market platforms according to criteria other than the normally expected ones (e.g. relevance or quality). We were able to access real booking data from the hotel distribution platform provider Hotel.de. Hotel.de offers different contract types that have a di...

Web 2.0 has been recognized as one of the most effective marketing channels. Based on a convenience sample of 351 hotels, this study analyze how hotel managers in Spain a) are aware of the various Web 2.0 tools and use them, b) believe that these tools can affect their business and tourists’ choices and c) encourage customers to post on-line and subsequently to check these reviews. Findings rev...