BOSTON -- According to the 2018 Global Travel Forecast, travel prices are expected to rise sharply in the coming year, reaching nearly 4 percent increases in some sectors. Released today, the fourth annual forecast, by the ...

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 ...

The goal of hotel sales and marketing is revenue generation. The methods employed by group sales and marketing professionals have evolved overtime to incorporate an array of technological innovations. The purpose of this ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand the future of hotel chains by exploring the evolving expectations of guests, potential innovations, emerging opportunities, and likely future scenarios. ...

The research note explores a debate in the hotel industry regarding the relationship between hotel RevPAR and profitability, a debate around which there is a great degree of “noise.” Using a sample of 1,954 actual hotels ...

Despite hospitality and tourism researchers’ recent attempts at examining different aspects of online word-of-mouth [WOM], its impact on hotel sales remains largely unknown in the existing literature. To fill this void, ...

Using financial data derived from 27 hotel companies operating in Tunisia, the paper reports an analysis of hotel profitability. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Return On Assets (ROA) analysis managerial efficiency ...

The hotel industry has experienced changes brought on by growth, customer expectations and the proliferation in the use of e-commerce and online distribution channels. Future hotel success depends on how effectively ...

n this study the researcher uses a qualitative research design to discover what makes hotel expatriates remain in their overseas assignments. In-depth interviews, participant observations, and personal documents are used ...