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Showing 1 to 20 of 307 for “"Hotels"”.
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Chain hotels versus independent hotels : an analysis of branding, room revenue & volatility
… the historical performance of chain-affiliated hotels and independent (non-affiliated) hotels with an emphasis on the volatility of room revenues. The thesis attempts to prove or disprove the hypothesis that chain affiliated hotels are less volatile than independent hotels. The findings of this …
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Understanding the value of boutique hotels
In recent decades, boutique hotels have witnessed a dramatic increase in popularity in the United States. The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with an understanding of boutique hotel value and conditions that allow for boutique hotel success. First, it will provide a formal definition …
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An estimate of the impact that mega-resort casino-hotels have on existing Las Vegas strip casino/hotels
… revenue of existing Las Vegas "strip" casino/hotels; The results of this study found two primary impacts: (1) new mega-resorts did not change the growth rate of gross gaming revenue over an extended period of time and (2) new mega-resorts took a share of the gross gaming revenue resulting in a …
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The Vineyards Estates by Small Luxury Hotels
En The Vineyards Estates ofreceremos Villas de Lujo entre viñedos, bajo la modalidad “fractional ownership” o propiedad condominial, sujeta a un reglamento de uso común, a la que dotamos de ciertos atributos distintivos: la marca, el servicio concierge, y fundamentalmente el derecho a producir su …
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Hotel Guests' Intentions to Choose Green Hotels
… interested in green products and services, many hotels are going green or are considering becoming green. The current study used a model adapted from the Theory of Planned Behavior in order to determine the relationships between environmental concern, rewards, attitude, social norms, and …
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The practice of relationship marketing in hotels
… better understanding of the approaches taken by hotels to build, develop and maintain long term customer relationships. The issues underpinning this research were investigated in a mid-market hotel company located in the United Kingdom with softer and harder brand hotel groups. Multiple research …
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Productivity and efficiency of hotels in Singapore
Low productivity growth in the hotel sector is a growing concern for Singapore in the next lap of a??developeda?? status. To address its challenges, this dissertation has four objectives. A model is developed for estimating total factor productivity growth (TFPG) at sectoral level and the hotel …
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Challenges facing tourist hotels towards provision of good customer service: A case study of tourist hotels in Arumeru District
… was to investigate the challenges facing tourist hotels in provision of good customer services in Arumeru district, Arusha region. Specifically, the study sought to address the following specific objectives, that is, to examine contributions of good customer’s services to tourist hotels, to …
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Examining the gap between employees’ expectations and their experience of HR practices in luxury five-star hotels in Thailand. A cross-sector comparison of local hotels, national and international chains hotels
… and challenging job roles in luxury five-star hotels in Thailand. It employs a multi-method research design using a pragmatic lens, mixed methods and sequential explanatory design through a survey of 578 respondents, followed by 62 semi-structured interviews, the study shows that national chain …
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Hver eru helstu lykilatriði teymisvinnu hjá Icelandair Hotels?
… lykilatriði eru teymisvinnu hjá Icelandair Hotels. Skoðuð verða helstu hugtökin forysta, hvatning og teymi. Höfundur notast við afleiddar heimildir og ýmsar kenningar fræðimanna til stuðnings. Einnig styðst höfundur við upplýsingar og sjónarmið fagaðila hjá skipulagsheild. Þar með er …
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Employee empowerment in luxury hotels in East Malaysia
… from various four and five star-rated hotels. The objective was to explore the notion of empowerment specific to the East Malaysia context and then to explore the empowerment practices and the perceived risk of empowerment. The qualitative findings reveal that employees perceived …
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Consumers' attitudes of fast food restaurants in hotels
… provided by on-site fast food restaurants in hotels. In relation to this, the study investigated several sub-issues which were consumers' attitudes combined with expectations concerning fast food restaurants in hotels, the consumers' preferred attributes of these restaurants and the factors …
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Analytics for hotels : demand prediction and decision optimization
The thesis presents the work with a hotel company, as an example of how machine learning techniques can be applied to improve demand predictions and help a hotel property to make better decisions on its pricing and capacity allocation strategies. To solve the decision optimization problem, we first …
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Demand forecasting and optimizing room allocation at Icelandair Hotels
… is an important revenue management problem that hotels face every day. During a period of high demand like the Icelandic tourist industry is experiencing now, hotels are in the position of being able to select the most profitable customers to stay at the hotel instead of welcoming every sale. A …
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Indoor Scene Localization to Fight Sex Trafficking in Hotels
<p>Images are key to fighting sex trafficking. They are: (a) used to advertise for sex services,(b) shared among criminal networks, and (c) connect a person in an image to the place where the image was taken. This work explores the ability to link images to indoor places in order to support the …
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The optimal room inventory of Las Vegas casino hotels
… is in the lodging market of Las Vegas casino hotels (the subject market). A room inventory model is developed for estimating the optimal room inventory of the subject market. The real room inventory of the past nine fiscal years and the planned room inventory of the next two fiscal years are …
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Factors influencing customers' satisfaction in tourist hotels in Tanzania
… influencing customer satisfaction in tourist hotels. More specifically, the study intended to investigate whether there is significant relationship between the level of perceived service quality and customer satisfaction in tourist hotels, to assess the extent to which perceived price …
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Estimating the impact of Airbnb on hotels in Toronto
… to empirically estimate the impact of Airbnb on hotels in Toronto since majority of the limited academic empirical studies on the topic to date are focused on U.S. cities. Regression analysis of time series is used to estimate the structural models based on hotel performance metrics, GDP, CPI, …
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The Contribution of Staff Training on Offering Quality Hospitality Services in Hotels in Tanzania; A case of Graded Hotels in Dar es Salaam
… assesses the level of staff education in graded hotels, staff training situations, challenges encountered in offering of staff training and possible solutions with regard to staff training in graded hotels in Tanzania. Three theories which are Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Learning Theory and …
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