Recent global changes have triggered a biodiversity crisis. However, climate fluctuations always influenced and humans affected species distributions since prehistoric times. Conservation palaeobiology is developing field that aims to understand the long-term dynamics of such interactions by studying geohistorical records in conservation perspective. Case studies exist for vertebrates plants, b...

The purpose of this study is to analyze cyber security and security practices of electronic information and network system, network threats, and techniques to prevent the cyber attacks in hotels. Helping the information technology directors and chief information officers (CIO) is the aim of this study to advance policy for security of electronic information in hotels and suggesting some techniq...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation rentals continue to grow at a phenomenal rate. Examining how this business model affects the competitive landscape of accommodation services is of strategic importance to hotels and tourism destinations. This study explores the competitive edge of P2P accommodation in comparison to hotels by extracting key content and themes from online reviews to explain the ke...

Nowadays “greenwashing” is a popular term. We are aware of companies such as BP Oil and many others being accused of greenwashing, claiming eco-consciousness or launching products and services that are less than legitimately green. But few people know that the term was originally coined to criticize hotels that encouraged guests to reuse towels for environmental reasons but made little or no ef...

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...

Firms’ incentives to manufacture biased user reviews impede review usefulness. We examine the differences in reviews for a given hotel between two sites: Expedia.com (only a customer can post a review) and TripAdvisor.com (anyone can post). We argue that the net gains from promotional reviewing are highest for independent hotels with single-unit owners and lowest for branded chain hotels with m...

We use a unique proprietary monthly panel data set on the operations of a large hotel firm to study the effect of vertical integration decisions on the pricing and performance (occupancy rate and RevPar) of individual hotels. Aggregate data patterns – which managers pay most attention to – suggest sizeable performance differences between franchised and non-franchised hotels. However, empirical ...

Th e paper examines the host country-specifi c factors as determinants of hotel chains' market presence in a destination. Th ree types of hotel chains' market presence are identifi ed – absolute market presence (number of chain affi liated hotels/rooms), relative market presence (share of affi liated hotels/rooms in the total number of hotels/rooms in a destination) and market presence intensit...