The current study aims to analyze waste characteristics and management practices of the hotel industry in Hoi An, a tourism city in the center of Vietnam. Solid wastes from 120 hotels were sampled, the face-to-face interviews were conducted, and statistical methods were carried out to analyze the data. The results showed that the mean of waste generation rate of the hotels was 2.28 kg/guest/day...

Despite the significant impact of environment on the attractiveness of tourist destination, environmental stewardship is not always the top priority in the hotel industry as one of the most energy-intensive sectors of the tourism industry which contributes to the increasing quantity of air pollutants. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of ecological pull motives and service quality o...

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 ...

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...

introduction: hotels are very important pillar of the tourism industry that provides extensive service to the tourists. hotel industry can play an important role for growing and developing tourism industry in every country. theoretical bases: the purpose of this study is calculating the efficiency and prioritizing two, three and five stars hotels in yazd province, using dea and gray analysis me...

Introduction Big data analytics has attracted a lot of attention in recent years from many industries and businesses due to its huge impact on businesses operations, decision making process, and profitability. As increasing the revenue and improving guest experience are the core goals of the hospitality industry, having a proper and efficient big data analytics platform can dramatically lead th...

Tourism industry is regarded as the star in the 21st century, the reasons are not only creating the opportunities for employment, but also earning foreign exchange with significant benefits. Moreover, tourism industry plays an important role on the local economical society developement . According to Tourism Bureau with the statistical data, all the employees of the tourist hotels in Taipei cit...

There has been a growing awareness of the need to implement environmentally friendly operations in the hotel industry, but most studies focus on guest behaviors. Only a few studies investigate employees’ willingness to comply with hotels’ green practices. This study seeks to further the investigation from the human resource perspective. Using alumni from a tourism and hospitality programs, this...

With the rapid development of China’s tourism industry, e-commerce will bring about new opportunity and challenge to tourism. Hotels and travel agencies play very important roles in tourism industry and their level of application of IT prominently shows the management level and information process of whole tourism. This study uses content analysis to evaluate the web sites service of travel age...

This paper assessed roles budget target setting plays in effective performance measurement in Nigerian hotel industry. The survey research method was adopted for this study. The study population consisted of all the managers, Accountants, Account and Finance, personnel and other hoteliers of hotels located in Kaduna state. The sample size consisted of fifty respondents drawn from ten selected h...