W Hotels W Hotels is Starwood’s luxury lifestyle / boutique hotel brand. Marketed towards a younger general crowd‚ the hotel brand was launched in 1998 with its first property‚ W New York‚ opening at 541 Lexington Avenue. The brand has since expanded internationally with properties opening first in Mexico City‚ Seoul‚ and Istanbul. The brand’s first resort property is W Maldives Retreat & Spa. The group has now 52 hotels all over the world‚ also in countries like Taiwan or Chili. In order
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PART A CHAPTER 1 INDUSTRY PROFILE History of Hotel Industry: A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging‚ usually on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number additional guest services such as restaurant‚ a swimming pool or childcare. Some hotel has conference services and meeting rooms and encourages groups to hold conventions and meeting at their location. Revenues of hotel and restaurant (H&R) industry in India during the financial year 2000-2011 was INR 804.32 billion
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Christopher Martin ‘Micro-finance programmes are aimed at reducing poverty. What ethical challenges are raised by the operation of micro-finance and which ethical theory can best be applied to assess how Grameen Bank addresses these challenges?’ Introduction: The essay seeks to examine the ethical issues raised by the operation of microfinance. In the first section‚ an overview will be offered. In the second
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MICRO AND MACRO MARKETING ENVIRONMENT Introduction Micro marketing Refers to the internal controllable factors or forces which affects the ability of a company to serve its customers. e.g. the organization‚ the market‚ the suppliers‚ market intermediaries and the marketing mix. The micro marketing environment that surrounds organisations can be complex by nature‚ however the company has an element of control over how it operates within this environment. Macro marketing Refers to the external
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MBA_PGDM ADMISSIONS - 2013 MICRO PRESENTATION TOPICS (SELECTION PROCESS - SESSION 1 ) Sl. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Topic The patent war between Apple and Samsung Sl. No 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Topic Healthy minds are happy minds Flashmobs are entertaining Inflation has caused an economic slowdown The impact of global warming on
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GR HOTELS INC Preliminary Report To: Andrew Mayd‚ CEO From: Chris Mell‚ CMA Subject: Analysis to increase occupancy rate Date: January 15th ‚ 2008 Introduction. The report was prepared for GR Hotels Board of Directors review. It examines current opportunities to increase profitability. Several options were examined and the most plausible solution proposed – Upgrade to upscale both hotels. This measure will increase long term profits and improve position in the
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Hilton Hotels founded in 1919 by Conrad Hilton. Hilton bought his first hotel‚ the Mobley Hotel‚ in 1919 in Cisco‚ Texas. The first hotel to bear the Hilton name was the Dallas Hilton‚ a high-rise that opened in Dallas‚ Texas in 1925. In 1949‚ at the Caribe Hilton Hotel’s Beachcomber Bar in San Juan‚ Puerto Rico‚ Ramon "Monchito" Marrero created the Piña Colada. In 1954‚ Hilton hotels bought the Statler Hotel chain‚ making it the largest hospitality company in the world. Hilton Hotels Corporation
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This essay will examine three human behavioral issues that have evolved from the social sciences in the context of managing organizations. The case study that will be used to analyze these conditions and theories deals with The Portman Hotel Company-San Francisco. Three issues will be addressed in the following order: fundamental attribution error‚ Expectancy Theory‚ and Operant Conditional Theory. First‚ a brief description will be provided for each theory‚ then how the theories relate to the
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APPLE COMPUTER CASE ISSUES Core Competency (CI#1) : Apple design‚ develop and market numerous product and service lines. They sell their products to education‚ consumer creative professional‚ business and government customers. While apple seems to display numerous products and conduct business on different segments‚ it is legitimate to wonder what the company is really good at? Too much diversity is exactly what crushed Apple during the John Scully days. Cannibalization (CI#2): Through January
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new strategy to boost the company’s growth. The management team thinks that it is the right time to establish Rosewood as a corporate brand. A known corporate brand name will encourage hotel guests to stay at some of other Rosewood hotels. Rosewood wants to compete with the corporate and individual branded luxury hotels. As indivudual branded company‚ is is hard to compete with the corporate brands that benefit from cross-property usage. Their current strategy limits their market and objectives. They
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