Sustainable development is a necessary part of hotel industry and precise efficiency measurement is required to have it, particularly in today’s competitive environment. In this paper a method of efficiency evaluation and comparison is introduced which can categorize hotels with respect to their stars rating as well as size, place, budget and many other differences and protects the poor hotels ...

this study aimed at investigating the state of tourism and sport tourism in abu dhabi which considered the competences of sport tourism, ongoing sport fields and the capacity and condition of places of residence in abu dhabi between 2004 and 2008. the statistical population equaled the sample consisting of 40 tourism authorities, experts and managers, hotel, sport club and travel agency manager...

a Medical and Social Affairs, The National Family Safety Program, Saudi Arabia b Child Protection Research Center, American Humane Association, USA c PICU and Pediatric Emergencies, Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon d Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University, Ulm, Germany e Department of Children, Schools and Families, England, United Kingdom f Child and Youth ...

this study examines the responsible energy consumption of listed european hotels. hotel efficiency is estimated using a stochastic frontier analysis (sfa) production function, with supplies costs as the input and total revenue as the output. cluster analysis is used to group the hotels into homogeneous groups according to their efficiency level, size, or profitability. the results show that the...

This paper studies the optimal pricing strategy of a hotel that establishes an online distribution channel through cooperation with an online travel agency (OTA). The OTA promotes the hotel and sells hotel rooms through its website and receives commission from the hotel for rooms sold. Through a sequence game model, this paper derives the optimal decision on the unit commission of the hotel and...

Stéphanie Falcao, Crina Solomon, Caroline Monat, Julie Bérubé, Jolanta Gutkowska, and Julie L. Lavoie Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal-Technopôle Angus, Montréal, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Research Centre, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal-Hôtel-Dieu, Montréal, and Department of Medicine, Université de Montré...

According to technology acceptance model (TAM), IT adoption is influenced by two perceptions: usefulness and ease-of-use. Researchers have discussed on what kind of IS applications offers opportunities for enhancing guest services to meet increasing customer expectations. However, little research has focused on IS adoption for collaboration IS in hospitality. Employees’ working efficiency and c...

The purpose of this study is to identify the role, importance and outcomes attributed to HRD by line managers in the Mauritian hotel industry. Data were collected through in-depth interviews from a purposive sample of 135 hotel line managers. A two-step procedure was followed to analyse data. First, thematic analysis identified key themes in the textual data. Second, the artificial neural softw...