An empowered worker is a knowledgeable worker. Thus, the aims of this study were to examine how empowerment is perceived by the front-line hotel employees and secondly, to identify the factors affecting empowerment within the industry. Factors such as communication, coaching, participation, training and reward were examined for any significant relationship with empowerment, along with whether t...

In this paper a new metaheuristic solution is designed to solve the travelling salesperson problem with hotel selection (TSPHS). The applied solution approach is based on the V flight formation of migrating birds. Different numerical analysis confirms that it is efficient enough for solving the problem in a reasonable computational time. To check the efficiency and suitability of the solution a...

William Lane Craig’s defence of the kalam cosmological argument rests heavily on two philosophical arguments against a past-eternal universe. In this article I take issue with one of these arguments, what I call the ‘Hilbert’s Hotel Argument’ – namely, that the metaphysical absurdity of an actually infinite number of things existing precludes the possibility of a beginningless past. After expla...

The matter of the classification of tourism accommodations is particularly difficult for at least two reasons:-First of all, due to the large diversity of types of tourism accommodations, a diversity that is constantly increasing;-Also, due to the large diversity of classification systems that are themselves embedded in highly different cultural and economic contexts. I will therefore try to su...

In 1924 David Hilbert conceived a paradoxical tale involving a hotel with an infinite number of rooms to illustrate some aspects of the mathematical notion of "infinity." In continuous-variable quantum mechanics we routinely make use of infinite state spaces: here we show that such a theoretical apparatus can accommodate an analog of Hilbert's hotel paradox. We devise a protocol that, mimicking...

This study investigates what three large, multinational hospitality companies do in practice when evaluating and making IT investment decisions. This study was launched in an attempt to 1) learn more about how multinational hospitality companies evaluate, prioritize, and select IT investments in the context of hotel GDS; 2) call attention to an important and costly topic in hopes of improving c...

Increasingly, user-generated product reviews, images and tags serve as a valuable source of information for customers making product choices online. An extant stream of work has looked at the economic impact of reviews. Typically, the impact of product reviews has been incorporated by numeric variables representing the valence and volume of reviews. In this paper, we posit that the information ...

Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel is an extreme and unusual example of revenue management techniques. Typical revenue management installations yield revenue enhancements of 3-7%. Harrah’s, chainwide, has seen 15% improvements, with Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel perhaps the most excessive beneficiary, despite serving no alcohol and having no traditional table games. Further, many tradition...