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1 Citations
3,657 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2018

In the process of internationalization of construction contractors, international enterprises as main contractors (IMC) need to consider whether part of the contract should be subcontracted to local subcontractors (LSC) to gain a competitive advantag...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,553 Views
19 Pages

11 May 2021

Issuance effects are regarded as one of the most important aspects referring to the regulatory guidelines of green corporate bond ratings. This paper developed a new incentive difference Hotelling model, considering four major factors, i.e., the dire...

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  • Open Access
671 Views
31 Pages

21 November 2025

Driven by government subsidies and advertising revenue, air taxis present an innovative solution to alleviate traffic congestion and are poised for growth. However, at their current stage of development, air taxi companies primarily operate short-dis...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,851 Views
12 Pages

Evaluating Business Model for Hotel Industry by Grey-TOPSIS

  • Hsueh-Feng Chang,
  • Shu-Hua Wu,
  • Joyce Hsiu-Yu Chen and
  • Chao-Hui Ke

Businesses in the past few years have paid more and more attention to brand awareness. More and more branded hotels have launched sub-brands so as to access a new market, boost brand exposure and value, and attain new market niches. The purpose of th...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,255 Views
23 Pages

Priority Weights for Predicting the Success of Hotel Sustainable Business Models

  • Tien-Chin Wang,
  • Chin-Ying Huang,
  • Shu-Li Huang and
  • Jen-Yao Lee

20 December 2021

This study proposes the use of consistent fuzzy preference relations to evaluate the structure of hotel sustainable business model (HSBM) dimensions and the corresponding hierarchy of evaluation indicators, and predict the overall probability of succ...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,012 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of Hotel Water-Use Behavior Based on the MLP-SEM Model

  • Rong Cai,
  • Xue Bai,
  • Jialin Liu and
  • Mengting Hu

14 April 2023

As a representative service industry, the hotel industry has a complex water-use structure and high water consumption. It is of great significance to investigate the mechanisms determining hotel water-use behavior for demand analysis, as this would m...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,861 Views
19 Pages

22 December 2021

The article aims to identify modern technological solutions in the field of automation and robotization of business processes that change the way hotel enterprises operate in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the research problem w...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,180 Views
18 Pages

Short-Term Energy Demand Forecast in Hotels Using Hybrid Intelligent Modeling

  • José-Luis Casteleiro-Roca,
  • José Francisco Gómez-González,
  • José Luis Calvo-Rolle,
  • Esteban Jove,
  • Héctor Quintián,
  • Benjamin Gonzalez Diaz and
  • Juan Albino Mendez Perez

31 May 2019

The hotel industry is an important energy consumer that needs efficient energy management methods to guarantee its performance and sustainability. The new role of hotels as prosumers increases the difficulty in the design of these methods. Also, the...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
17,014 Views
21 Pages

6 April 2023

Modern hotel business models tend to split ownership of the property and its business operations. It can be assumed that a good-quality hotel facility per se can easily achieve high customer satisfaction. The purpose of this research was to investiga...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,983 Views
17 Pages

16 June 2022

The aim of this study is to develop a new performance evaluation tool that is stringently applied to the hotel chains, considering the associated ethical marketing dimensions to measure its proper strategic, tactical, and operational role and impact...

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,423 Views
33 Pages

11 January 2022

As people increasingly make hotel booking decisions relying on online reviews, how to effectively improve customer ratings has become a major point for hotel managers. Online reviews serve as a promising data source to enhance service attributes in o...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,731 Views
19 Pages

Modelling Tourists’ Acceptance of Hotel Experience-Enhancement Smart Technologies

  • Donglin Han,
  • Huiying (Cynthia) Hou,
  • Hao Wu and
  • Joseph H. K. Lai

16 April 2021

Whereas the use of specific smart technologies in various sectors of the tourism industry has been under greater scrutiny in recent years, research that investigates tourists’ acceptance of smart technologies applied as a whole to hotels is largely u...

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  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,109 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2021

Although the occupancy rate of green hotels is a hot topic in the sustainable tourism economy, few empirical studies have used the expanded norm activation model to explore what drives consumers’ intentions to stay at green hotels. This study took en...

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  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,949 Views
14 Pages

29 August 2019

Accurate forecasting of the hotel accommodation demands is extremely critical to the sustainable development of tourism-related industries. In view of the ever-increasing tourism data, this paper constructs a deep learning framework to handle the pre...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,704 Views
15 Pages

28 January 2024

With the advancement of information technology, energy consumption prediction models are widely used for various types of buildings (office, residential, and commercial buildings) as guidance during the design and management stages. This article will...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,991 Views
17 Pages

7 October 2022

Within the fast paced digital transformation of the tourism and hospitality sector, the modalities of booking a tourist accommodation have been radically transformed by the uptake of digital business models and digital platforms. This study examines...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,397 Views
22 Pages

9 November 2020

The hotel market has become extremely competitive over the past years. Hotels try to differentiate themselves through their services and facilities. To make the best choice when searching for accommodation, guests increasingly use rating systems of b...

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  • Open Access
1,356 Views
22 Pages

A Fractional Gompertz Model with Generalized Conformable Operators to Forecast the Dynamics of Mexico’s Hotel Demand and Tourist Area Life Cycle

  • Fidel Meléndez-Vázquez,
  • Josué N. Gutiérrez-Corona,
  • Luis A. Quezada-Téllez,
  • Guillermo Fernández-Anaya and
  • Jorge E. Macías-Díaz

17 December 2024

This study explores the application of generalized conformable derivatives in modeling hotel demand dynamics in Mexico, using the Gompertz-type model. The research focuses on customizing conformable functions to fit the unique characteristics of the...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,434 Views
22 Pages

This study addresses the need for a comprehensive analysis of the demand for qualified personnel in Spain’s hotel accommodation sector, situating the issue within a context of increasing demand for specialized and highly personalized services i...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,911 Views
44 Pages

Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Hotel Industry Bankruptcy Risk through Novel Forecasting Models

  • Tijana Matejić,
  • Snežana Knežević,
  • Vesna Bogojević Arsić,
  • Tijana Obradović,
  • Stefan Milojević,
  • Miljan Adamović,
  • Aleksandra Mitrović,
  • Marko Milašinović,
  • Dragoljub Simonović and
  • Marko Špiler
  • + 1 author

13 April 2022

In this paper, we assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the bankruptcy risk of a sample of 100 hotel companies and, consequently, on the hotel industry in the Republic of Serbia. The assessment applies to the period, 2019–2026, with the u...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,091 Views
23 Pages

Crisis Response in Tourism: Semantic Networks and Topic Modeling in the Hotel and Aviation Industries

  • Ruohan Tang,
  • Shaofeng Zhao,
  • Won Seok Lee,
  • Sunwoo Park and
  • Yunfei Zhang

23 December 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented global disruptions, with the hotel and aviation industries—two critical pillars of tourism—among the hardest hit. This study analyzed 451 hotel-related and 336 aviation-related records from the W...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,203 Views
20 Pages

28 March 2022

With today’s rapid technological developments, many have applied artificial intelligence and robot technology to the tourism and hotel industries, with hotel service robots (HSRs) being gradually developed. At present, more technology developme...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,604 Views
17 Pages

7 April 2020

This study aims to predict Generation Y customers’ acceptance of user-generated content (UGC) websites by integrating an extended technology acceptance model (TAM), trustworthiness of online reviews, and cultural consensus and cultural consonan...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,147 Views
14 Pages

Scientific crowdsourcing, which can effectively obtain wisdom from solvers, has become a new type of open innovation to address worldwide scientific and research problems. In the crowdsourcing process, the initiator should satisfy his own research ne...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,413 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2023

Mortality modelling is a practical method for the government and various fields to obtain a picture of mortality up to a specific age for a particular year. However, some information on the phenomenon may remain in the residual vector and be unreveal...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,794 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2020

IT capability improves organization resilience in uncertain social environments (such as the outbreak of COVID-19) and, thus, becomes a key factor in the organization of sustainable development. However, studies have rarely quantitatively examined th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,383 Views
14 Pages

Water management plans (WMPs), sometimes referred to as risk management plans (RMPs) or water safety plans (WSPs), are not mandatory for hotels in many countries of the world, including the US. As such, many hotel personnel are uninformed of WMPs and...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,720 Views
20 Pages

25 May 2022

Achieving customer satisfaction is an important goal of the high-quality development (HQD) of the hotel industry. The purpose of this study is to summarize the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of the HQD of the hotel indus...

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  • Open Access
3,242 Views
17 Pages

This study aims to dynamically mine the demands of hotel consumers. A total of 378,270 online reviews in the cities of Beijing, Chengdu, and Guangzhou in China were crawled using Python. Natural language processing (e.g., opinion mining and the BERT...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,646 Views
13 Pages

17 October 2024

Over the last few years, the hospitality industry has increasingly embraced green practices. Indeed, tourists pay more attention to the sustainability actions of accommodations nowadays, demonstrating positive attitudes towards those implementing sus...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,949 Views
15 Pages

Exploring Information and Communication Technologies as Driving Forces in Hotel SMEs Performance: Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility

  • José Manuel Santos-Jaén,
  • Ana León-Gómez,
  • Daniel Ruiz-Palomo,
  • Francisca García-Lopera and
  • María del Carmen Valls Martínez

4 October 2022

This paper aims to analyze whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be considered as a mediator variable on the relationship among Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) adoption and SMEs performance in the hotel industry due to th...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,688 Views
20 Pages

15 August 2022

The use of cogeneration systems in the hotel industry leads to economic and environmental benefits, but its acceptance in the industry remains low. Hence, this study aimed to examine the factors that influence cogeneration system acceptance amongst h...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,268 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2022

In the application of control charts, most of the research in profile monitoring is based on accurate measurements. Measurement errors, however, often exist in many manufacturing and service environments. In this paper, we apply linear mixed models i...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,998 Views
17 Pages

Customers have become very sensitive regarding the innovative evaluation of services. Due to competition in the hospitality industry, it is a challenge for hotel marketers to understand customers’ behavior. There is scant research in the hotel indust...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,822 Views
11 Pages

Climate change is certainly a global problem that negatively affects all nations, and thus all humans, on the globe. Nevertheless, little is known about people’s perceptions of climate change and its effects on people’s attitudinal and be...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,408 Views
17 Pages

Examination of Individual Preferences for Green Hotels in Crete

  • Alexandros Apostolakis,
  • Shabbar Jaffry and
  • Markos Kourgiantakis

9 October 2020

The hospitality sector is experiencing a massive transformation currently. Hotels are currently receiving considerable criticism over their practices concerning energy, environmental, as well as resource management. As a result, managerial practices...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,399 Views
15 Pages

10 May 2022

This research investigated consumer behaviors for a smart hotel, which is driven by innovative technologies along with the fourth industrial revolution. Considering its enormous potential to become the hotel of the future, we aimed to offer a better...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,711 Views
20 Pages

25 April 2023

The ecological crisis that emerged rapidly in the 2000s because of vertiginous economic growth is still one of the dominant themes today. This unprecedented phenomenon has led to intense political-economic and social tensions over reconsidering the p...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,925 Views
14 Pages

Two main strategies, home and hotel isolation, have been used to isolate COVID-19 cases in most countries. Both have proven to be somewhat medically effective, but the costs to produce the desired outcome remain unclear. We used a decision tree model...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,196 Views
13 Pages

Food Sustainability as a Strategic Value Driver in the Hotel Industry

  • Claudia Cozzio,
  • Ludovico Bullini Orlandi and
  • Alessandro Zardini

25 September 2018

This paper aims at exploring the impact of green food on consumers’ purchase attitudes toward a hotel stay and on consumers’ behavioral intentions (i.e., intention to visit the hotel, intention to offer positive recommendations to others...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,395 Views
14 Pages

21 January 2020

Afternoon tea has become a popular leisure activity in Taiwan. Most hotels, restaurants, and cafes have started to provide an afternoon tea service in addition to their regular menus. Restaurant atmosphere research has largely focused on single envir...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,156 Views
23 Pages

24 October 2023

Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) has attracted wide attention to the requirement for global carbon emission reduction. This paper presents a UBEM tool, AutoBPS-Param, to generate building energy models (BEMs) with parameterized geometry and deta...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,198 Views
15 Pages

Are Tourist Interactions Good or Bad? Tourist–Tourist Interactions at 5-Star Hotels in Istanbul

  • Elisa Zentveld,
  • Ebru Düşmezkalender,
  • Yunus Özhasar and
  • Yasin Emre Oğuz

10 December 2024

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of ambience and aesthetics on tourist–tourist interaction and the effects of tourist–tourist interaction on a sense of belonging, intention to recommend, and satisfaction in accommodatio...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,498 Views
23 Pages

10 December 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, customer reviews play a crucial role in shaping the reputation and success of hotels. Accurately analyzing and classifying the sentiment of these reviews offers valuable insights into customer sati...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,800 Views
18 Pages

12 April 2022

This study explores Generation Z hotel employees’ perception of and behavioral intention to use advanced information technologies (ITs) before and during COVID-19. The relationship between perception and intention moderated by COVID-19 is inves...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,308 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2019

The methodology of profile monitoring combines both the model fitting and statistical process control (SPC) techniques. Over the past ten years, a variety of profile monitoring methods have been proposed and extensively investigated in terms of diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,141 Views
21 Pages

The KAC-CSR Model in the Tourism Sector

  • David Daniel Peña-Miranda,
  • Antoni Serra-Cantallops and
  • José Ramón-Cardona

18 January 2023

This article carries out, for the first time in the scientific literature, an integrated analysis of the variables of knowledge, application, and communication of CSR in an economic sector (in this case, tourism), through the application of a novel m...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
12,114 Views
23 Pages

Developing a Model for Sustainable Hotels in Northern Cyprus

  • Soad Abokhamis Mousavi,
  • Ercan Hoşkara and
  • Kyle M. Woosnam

16 November 2017

The purpose of this work is to develop a sustainable hotel building model (SHBM) that will allow for the measurement of sustainability in determining what conditions are most ideal for hotels in Northern Cyprus. This research method is based on the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,912 Views
20 Pages

Collapsing Response of a Nonlinear Shear-Beam Building Model Excited by a Strong-Motion Pulse at Its Base

  • Hamid Abbasgholiha,
  • Vlado Gičev,
  • Mihailo D. Trifunac,
  • Reza S. Jalali and
  • Maria I. Todorovska

7 February 2023

We present a simple nonlinear model of a shear-beam building that experiences large nonlinear deformations and collapse when excited by large pulses of strong earthquake ground motion. In this paper, we introduce the model and show that its propertie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,994 Views
21 Pages

Perceived Factors of Stress and Its Outcomes among Hotel Housekeepers in the Balearic Islands: A Qualitative Approach from a Gender Perspective

  • Xenia Chela-Alvarez,
  • Oana Bulilete,
  • M. Esther García-Buades,
  • Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez and
  • Joan Llobera-Canaves

Tourism is the main economic sector in the Balearic Islands (Spain) and hotel housekeepers (HHs) are a large occupational group, in which stress is becoming a major issue. This study aims at exploring in-depth factors perceived as stressors by HHs an...

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