The article is devoted to the study of development strategies international hotel chains. purpose reveal peculiarities organization companies, identify advantages chain form, classify and characterize typical General logical methods analysis, synthesis, analogy, comparison generalization were used, which ensured systematization scientific, statistical, scientific journalistic information public...

Indeed, music distribution and consumption is not as it used to be. iTunes, LastFM, or Spotify are just a few keywords that come to our mind when we think about music. The traditional channels have changed; the music industry is reinventing itself. Flight tickets and hotel reservations: another intangible good that can be easily bought online. Tourists need no longer the physical travel agencie...

Nowadays web services technology is widely used to integrate heterogeneous systems and develop new applications. Here an application of integration of hotel management systems by web services technology is presented. Digital Hotel Management integrates lots of systems of hotel industry such as Ordering System Kitchen Order Ticket (KOT), Billing System, Customer Relationship Management system (C...

In the U.S., local governments regulate private land use mainly through zoning. By creating a barrier to entry and lessening competition in local business markets, their regulation has the potential to generate a distortion. This paper assesses the empirical relevance of this hypothesis using microdata on midscale Texas chain hotels and land use regulation data collected from their local munici...

Hotel chains are reported as one of the most energy-intensive sectors and a growing number international studies on this theme have been developed. This research aims to understand energy use some its key factors in hotel worldwide. Data were collected variables related previous those present Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework. The sample was composed by 45 chains, representing more th...