KRISHAN WEWELWALA, ANOMA I. ALAGIYAWADU , GAYANTHI K.KODITUWAKKU 3 & MALAKA M. BOPAGE 4 1Biodiversity Education & Exploration Society (BEES), Galle, 80000 Sri Lanka 2Jetwing Lighthouse, Dadalla, Galle, 80000 Sri Lanka 3Department of Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Keleniya, 11010 Sri Lanka 4Sigiriya Village Hotels PLC, 08-2/1 York Arcade Building, Leyden Bastian Road, Col...

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This paper addresses the issue of escape from unfamiliar, smoke filled buildings such as department stores or hotels where being blinded by smoke may result in death to its occupants. It proposes that we may be able to apply concise auditory information to the escape procedure. In order to achieve this, predictive virtual acoustic techniques have been employed to assess its feasibility.

Intellectual capital (IC) is organizational intangible asset which is frequently associated with performance. IC is commonly categorized into three core components: human capital, structural capital and relational capital. This study takes a step further in the evolution of the IC model for the hotel industry and divides relationship capital into two categories: End customer- relationship capit...

Hotels are energy-intensive buildings; therefore, in this study, we investigate the indicators used for measuring energy efficiency of one- to five-star hotels, temperate and tropical regions Asia, Europe, Africa. There several intensity, but found that “total average annual use intensity index”, measured kilowatt-hours per square meter year (kWh/m2 year), was most often used. Surveys audits me...

The purpose of this research was to understand Chinese customers’ views on the lifestyle hotel industry. study objectives were a) investigate reasons people stay in hotels, b) what customers expect from and c) inspire managers improve their business model give a better experience. 115 respondents participated survey who had stayed at hotels. found that hotels because they provide welcoming envi...

Electronic intermediaries have become pervasive in sales transactions for many durables, such as cars, power tools, and apartments. Yet only recently have they successfully tackled the challenge of enabling parties to share such goods. A key impediment to sharing is a lender’s concern about damage due to unobservable actions by a renter, usually resulting in moral hazard. This paper shows how a...

The hotel industry in Singapore is an important part of the hospitality and tourism infrastructure and a strategic part of Singapore’s growth story. Hotels are primarily viewed as a service industry with intangible areas of guest experience and service levels. The research objective of this paper is to better understand the hotel guest satisfaction and the areas that hotel management can change...

House dust mites have been shown to be strongly associated with allergic respiratory diseases such as, bronchial asthma, rhinitis and atopic dermatitis in the world. The climatic conditions of Bandar-Abbas, which is located in a coastal area and has a humid subtropical climate, provide a suitable place to proliferate mites. The aim of this study was to determine the contamination rate and analy...

We outline a dialogue system for the online reservation of hotels while driving a car. We describe the general system requirements and discuss the interdependencies that exist between dialogue, retrieval, and extraction modules as well as its architecture before illustrating the system at work.