Determining and selecting an appropriate location to construct a hotel is one of the most challenging concerns which hotel industry investors are facing with. In this study we attempt to find a suitable response to this research/application need by a mathematical model using the queueing theory and the fuzzy logic. Therefore hotel, the reception system and travelers accommodations are formulate...

Hotels cooperate with third-party websites to enhance their competitive position and attain sustainable development in the era of e-commerce. Furthermore, hotel managers overbook to hedge against last-minute cancellations and customer no-shows. This paper discusses pricing and overbooking strategies of a hotel in the context of cooperation with multiple third-party websites and analyzes how the...

A test of nonfinancial measures used as part of a management-incentive program by a U.S.-based, full-service hotel chain found that improvements in the nonfinancial measures were followed shortly by increases in revenue and profit. The two nonfinancial measures are customer satisfaction as measured by guests’ comment card indications of likelihood to return and level of complaints. The lag betw...

in this study, yield-water and profit function was used to obtain water demand function in agriculture sector. the results showed that the ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration had positive, significant effecton the ratio of actual to potential yield for wheat and barley. also, square ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration had negative, significant relationship. after estimat...

Purpose – The objectives of this study are to investigate the relationship between hotel room demand and room rates, and to find a viable solution for the optimal room rate that maximizes the total profit. Design/methodology/approach – There are various studies in the literature on how room rates affect profitability, and how the optimal room rate that maximizes the total revenue can be determi...

Eco-hotels are promoted to minimize the negative impacts on the environment. The author, therefore, makes a critical study of English eco-hotel profiles in order to decode the ecological thoughts embodied in the profiles. Based on Fairclough’s three-dimensional model, this study follows the three steps: description of linguistic features in terms of transitivity, interpretation of ecological th...


 The agenda of researchers and practitioners within the hospitality tourism sector has focused on need demand for sustainable practice. Following this situation, Cipaku Garden Hotel, as a small-to-medium-sized hotel operating in Indonesia, follows trend that taken place conducts practice part its business activities. Accordingly, objectives study are to examine conducted by uncover manage...

This paper investigates the role of discount travel agencies such as Priceline and Hotwire in the market segmentation of the hotel and airline industries. These agencies conceal important characteristics of the offered services, such as hotel locations or flight schedules. We explicitly model this opaque feature and show that it enables service providers to price discriminate between those cust...