Browsing Summaries of Academic Articles on Research in Hospitality (Feiertag Collection) by Title
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Advertising Efficiencies In The Hospitality And Tourism Industry [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2008-12)Advertising provides growth in sales volume for the new products and services. The hospitality industry relies heavily on advertising through travel journals and travel sections of print media, television media, and the ... -
Airbnb’s effect on hotel sales growth [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07)Disruption of existing industries by peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms, like Airbnb, has received extensive media attention primarily regarding the regulatory and the social aspects of the sharing economy. In this ... -
An analysis of customer room choice model and revenue management practices in the hotel industry [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2013-06)Considering the limitations of existing studies on the customer choice behaviour, this paper tries to use the variable precision rough set (VPRS) approach to establish a customer room choice model (CRCM) based on the logit ... -
Approaches, techniques, and information technology systems in the restaurants and foodservice industry: a qualitative study in sales forecasting [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2008-10-11)This is a study of the approaches, techniques, and information technology systems utilized for restaurant sales forecasting in the full-service restaurant segment. Companies were examined using a qualitative research methods ... -
Attrition clauses: outstanding issues and recommendations for meeting planners [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2005-03)This paper deals with the attrition clauses within hotel group sales agreements, the former of which became popular in the early 1990s. Attrition clauses specify pre-determined liquidated damages that a group (usually a ... -
Business, Technology, and Marketing Trends Influencing the Financial Performance of The Hotel Industry [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2019-02-26)In today’s world, hotel organizations contend with a highly competitive environment—an environment that is saturated with new technologies, customers who expect superior service, a drive toward innovation, and the challenge ... -
Categorizing peer-to-peer review site features and examining their impacts on room sales [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2019-03-05)This study examines the impacts of online review features on hotel Online Room Sales for various types of hotel segments utilizing a dataset that includes 227,378 post-purchase customer review comments for 1,092 hotels. ... -
Collaborative Communication between Sales and Logistics and Its Impact on Business Process Effectiveness: A Theoretical Approach [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2014)Logistics functions have played a critical role in cementing organizational efficiency and price control. At the same time, sales has become more than closing the deal, as value can be created throughout the sales process, ... -
Competitive Advantage or Market Saturation: An In-Depth Comparison of Flash-Sale Sites Through Content Analysis [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2015)This study aims to identify the representativeness of hospitality and service industry firms on flash-sale sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial. Currently, academic findings related to the frequency of offerings from ... -
Competitive revenue management for fixing quota and price of hotel commodities under uncertainty [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2011-09)This article develops an artificial neural network (ANN) based forecasting model using the past profit records of hotel commodities. Based on forecasting, hotel commodities are categorised into two kinds: ones that push ... -
Consumer research sheds light on all aspects of resort timesharing business [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2002-09)Resort timesharing involves many interacting components—marketing and sales, products design, financial analysis, and resort management to name a few. This article aims to apply relevant findings in Ragatz Associates’ ... -
Content Analysis of Consumer Confidence in Food Service in Relation to Food Safety Laws, Publicity, and Sales [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2019-02-12)For many years, consumers have relied on food safety laws to protect them from foodborne illnesses. Unfortunately, incidents of foodborne illness have been increasing in recent years. As a result, consumer confidence in ... -
Cyclical effects of advertising on hotel sales, risk and return [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2014-04)This study examines the effects of advertising expenditure on Taiwanese hotel sales (and profitability), risk and returns. It further tests whether the effects of advertising expenditure on hotel sales (and profitability) ... -
Decomposition methods for dynamic room allocation in hotel revenue management [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2018-11-16)Long-term stays are quite common in the hotel business. Consequently, it is crucial for the hotel managements to consider the allocation of available rooms to a stream of customers requesting to stay multiple days. This ... -
A demand-driven analysis of tourist accommodation price: A quantile regression of room bookings [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2015-09)Tourist accommodation expenditure is a widely investigated topic as it represents a major contribution to the total tourist expenditure. The identification of the determinant factors is commonly based on supply-driven ... -
Determinants of revenue per available room: Influential roles of average daily rate, demand, seasonality and yearly trend [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2018-09-21)Determining price per room to be charged to customers is an important decision to be taken by hotel management. Hotels frequently change their room rates based on the demand of room, occupancy rate, seasonal pattern, and ... -
The differential effects of the quality and quantity of online reviews on hotel room sales [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2014-05-06)While it is generally accepted that hotel reviews and ratings posted on travel websites drive hotel sales and revenue, the effects of reviews can be parsed into volume (the number of reviews about a hotel) and valence (the ... -
The dimensions of hotel customer ratings that boost RevPAR [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2018-09)Online ratings provide valuable information to operators. However, the use of this information for revenue maximization purposes remains at a moot point. This article proposes a new method to decompose ratings based on ... -
Do Domestic And International Customers Behave Alike In Online Hotel Booking? [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2014)The aim of this research is to explore online hotel booking behaviors of domestic and international customers. We examine the impact of review rating (location rating and service rating), review volume and hotel characteristics ... -
Do luxury room amenities affect guests’ willingness to pay? [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2015-04)Intangible services have fewer cues to enable consumer evaluation compared to physical goods. Cues are therefore particularly important for highly intangible services, since they provide tangible evidence of quality. This ...
