ABSTRACT This study compared lodging managers' job competency expectations for newly hired employees in possession of … four-year (baccalaureate) degrees from a college or university. Lodging managers mentally separated new hires into two … management baccalaureate degree, and 2) new hires in possession of a non-hospitality management baccalaureate degree. Lodging …

, models the price and geographic location elements of consumer demand, firm costs and competition in the lodging industry. A … geographic location as an important element of retailers? marketing mix. Essay 3, proposes an empirical framework for long …-run discrete dynamic games to study market firm?s entry, stay, and exit decisions in the lodging market. The econometric model is …

Despite the frequent recognition by the literature on oversupply in the US lodging industry and its adverse effect on … optimal capacity, the current study proposes a supply-demand equilibrium framework to understand the optimal capacity of the … US lodging industry that maximizes revenue. Analysis of industry data between 1987 and 2010 revealed that the US lodging …

hotel. A framework to install identification tags, touch points and RFID system was suggested. This study also examined the …

& Singh, 1993). Luckily, lodging industry data has underlying patterns and trends that repeat themselves daily, weekly … properly, can be very easy and intuitive to use in the lodging context. Considering annual forecast of sales is critical for … easily applicable time-series model in the lodging industry and provides evidence of the model forecasting accuracy. Findings …

Because taxes on lodging are generally not designed to correct market failure, their presumptive purpose is to maximize … in ten major U.S. cities, we find that existing tax rates on lodging are generally below the revenue-maximizing tax rates …

to the notion. We then propose a framework that uses the algebra for the fine-grained integration of policies expressed …

unified framework for emotional bidding in auctions, which comprises the bidders' processes of cognitive reasoning and …