The present study suggests that national culture will influence consumer attitude and behavior; however, research documenting differences in consumer culture in Taiwan and China is lacking. This study analyzes the hotel industry of Taiwan and China and explores the relationships between environmental attitudes, environmental responsive behavior and the willingness to stay at environmentally fri...

BACKGROUND Research has demonstrated the importance of physical environments at mealtimes for residents in long term care (LTC). However, a lack of a standardized measurement to assess physical dining environments has resulted in inconsistent research with potentially invalid and unreliable conclusions. The development of a standardized, construct valid instrument that assesses dining rooms is ...

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 study undertakes a spatial analysis of an Australian aged care setting where residents receive person-centred support in specially-designed home-like environment. Focus groups were conducted with staff to explore the impact built environment new residential that has implemented Household Model for people living mental health conditions. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory and proxemics, we map...

We consider a generalization of the drinking philosophers problem, called GDrPP, in which processes may issue AND-OR requests for resources, as opposed to the AND requests of the original formulation. For GDrPP, we introduce a basic priority dynamics that can be regarded as generalizing the edge-reversal priority dynamics underlying the classical solution to the original formulation. The novel ...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) infection is a significant public health concern and responsible for large outbreaks of acute hepatitis in poor sanitary and living conditions. OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of population movements on virus spreading, a large-scale population-based survey was performed in a pilgrimage- tourism area, the great Mashhad, capital city of Khorasan province...

The goal of this project is to explore the relationship between dining services and the Lafayette Farm, barriers to using local produce at the institutional setting, and management techniques to overcome those barriers. More directly, we ask what information needs to be communicated between the garden manager and dining services, and how can we develop a robust system to promote that communicat...

This paper develops an evaluation and enhancement approach of the carbon footprints (CFs) based environmentally sustainable service competitiveness for coffees shops. Firstly, the proposed approach uses the service blueprint to analyse the service process of coffee shops and the working times of the required direct facilities and the supporting facilities to estimate the amounts of greenhouse g...

This research used a typical e-mail query to investigate customer service by 491 properties from 13 international hotel chains. These five-star hotels had difficulty providing prompt, accurate, and timely e-mail responses to their customers. The results suggest significant differences in e-mail customer service, based on hotel location and the size of the hotel chain. The poor responsiveness an...

This study measures and compares the efficiency of leading tour operator and hotel companies across several Asia Pacific countries. We use an innovative methodology that is based on combining the stochastic frontier and data envelopment analysis in a Bayes framework. We show from the results that Australia, Singapore and South Korea are the most efficient in both their tour operator and hotel i...