1.0 INTRODUCTION: 1.1Back ground: Indian hospitality industry: Indian economy is growing and hospitality industry has been a major contributor to the growth of economy. The hospitality industry has shown a considerable performance over the previous three years and has been consistently performing over the former years (2008/09 ).The overall boom and increase in the economy of India is characterized by the large growth in the fields of information technology‚ banking‚
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hotel industry as this means fewer people have disposable income; therefore staying in hotels for leisure purposes are becoming less popular. Lewis. J Uncontrollable variables that affect the hospitality industry. Available from: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/uncontrollable-variables-affect-hospitality-industry-38795.html [Accessed 09 October 2013] Another economic factor to effect the hotel industry is the tax increase on air travel. Placing a tax increase on air travel means the prices
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229-40. Antoniou‚ C.‚ A. de Palma and N. Picard. (2010). “Econometric Models‚” SustainCity. Working Paper 2.4‚ THEMA‚ Universite de Cergy-Pontoise‚ 1-27. Bull‚ A. O. (1994). “Pricing a motel’s location‚” International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Vol. 6: 10-15. Cassel‚ E. and R. Mendelson. (1985). “The choice of functional forms for hedonic price equations: comment‚” Journal of Urban Economics. Vol. 18: 135-42. Chen‚ C.-F. and R. Rothschild. (2010). “An application of hedonic
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technology as a driver for successful business operations within luxury hotels. 5. To draw conclusions and make recommendations for the benefit of technology for luxury hotel manager. Background to the study: The incidence of technology in the hospitality industry is increasing at a rapid rate. Every hotel is using technology to improve service quality. Technology has had an effect on the efficiency of many factors in hotel sector. (Joseph‚ 2009) Technology is a critical determinant in hotel guest
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www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-6119.htm Progress and development of information and communication technologies in hospitality Crystal Ip‚ Rosanna Leung and Rob Law School of Hotel & Tourism Management‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hong Kong Abstract Purpose – In order to enhance operational efficiency‚ improve service quality and reduce costs‚ practitioners in the hospitality industry have widely adopted and implemented information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their businesses
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all over the world. Having just entered recession in Australia‚ with unlikely expectancy to climb out of recession until mid 2010. This will and is having as impact on jobs‚ retail‚ business and the industry that can be seen in a light of luxury‚ hospitality and tourism. In fact it has been said by BNET Industries that ‘outsourcing helps close the financial gap’ (Gordon‚ P 2003‚ p.1). With tough economic times the hotel industry has to do something more‚ to improve the financial flow or lack there of
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1 Designing a seamless hotel organization 2 Harsha E. Chacko Author Born in 1952 Dr. Harsha E. Chacko worked in the hospitality industry in India‚ Egypt‚ The Caribbean and finally in the United States. Dr. Chacko has been a faculty member of the University of New Orleans since 1982 and he is a professor‚ specializing in Hospitality and Tourism Management & Marketing. He’s also a professor at the Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel‚ Restaurant and Tourism Administration in New Orleans
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Murder‚ horror‚ gore; these are just a few of the elements that fuel the Southern Gothic genre. Flannery O’Connor‚ a prominent 20th century author and writer of thirty-two short stories‚ was a well-known proponent of Southern Gothic literature. Her short stories not only highlight the macabre‚ but instill unease within readers‚ two purposes aided by the usage of irony‚ symbolism‚ and theme. Irony constructs an atmosphere of suspense within O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The story follows
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2005). Ultimately financial performance or the company’s profitability will improve as a result of a a company apply the co-alignment principle (Nyheim‚ McFadden‚ & Connolly‚ 2005). (Nyheim‚ McFadden‚ & Connolly‚ 2005). One way has help the hospitality industry is through the functionality. IT has helped to have the ability to control inventory and rate‚ booking rules‚ restrictions‚ and selling strategies and distributing this in real time (Nyheim‚ McFadden‚ & Connolly‚ 2005). Another example
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create a machine that can act and think like human‚ also machine that can act and think rationally. Current research that we study about is information technology in hospitality industry. These researches are to find the limitation of information technology in hospitality industry especially in tourism. It is because‚ in tourism‚ hospitality is the most important needs by the tourist to get the correct information about some interesting place. Within the limitation‚ we also will provide some shortcoming
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