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Analyzing seasonality in welsh room occupancy data
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In this paper, the seasonal variations in occupancy rates for the accommodation sector in Wales over the period 1998 to 2000 were analyzed based on a combination of principal components and cluster analysis and the results were used to group establishments with similar performance profiles.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 2004-04-01. It has received 73 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Occupancy & Accommodation.read more
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Innovation behavior in the hotel industry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and tested a model of innovation behavior in the hotel industry, which relates four types of innovation (management, external communication, service scope and back-office) to the key determinants: service provider characteristics, customer competences and the market drivers.
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Tourism seasonality in cultural destinations: Empirical evidence from Sicily
Tiziana Cuccia,Ilde Rizzo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the seasonality of tourist presence in different destinations in Sicily, selected according to their different degree of cultural attractiveness, is analyzed using a regression analysis approach, using the Census-X12-Arima procedure.
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Seasonality research: the state of the art
TL;DR: The authors reviewed progress in the area of tourism seasonality research and is intended as a guide to the literature and concludes that considerable gaps still exist in published research in this area and it argues that the field lacks a sound theoretical framework.
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Hotel performance: state of the art
Abstract: Purpose – How do we measure the success of a hotel business? What factors determine performances? This paper seeks to explore the responses which researchers and practitioners have given to these questions in the last 20 years.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the analysis of 152 contributions and uses the balanced scorecard as a model to rationalize the main streams of research.Findings – The analysis of literature shows the gradually assumed importance of the balanced scorecard as a satisfactory performance measurement system. The findings related to the determinants of results are instead highly complex and far‐reaching. The determining factors are generally looked for within the enterprise. Four main functional research fields have been identified (strategy, production, marketing and organization) and for each one main research goals, findings and open questions are defined. The horizontal axis of the balanced scorecard (customer perspective, strategy and process perspective) is the ...
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Impact of financial/economic crisis on demand for hotel rooms in Hong Kong
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the factors that influence the demand for hotel rooms in Hong Kong and generate quarterly forecasts of that demand to assess the impact of the ongoing financial/economic crisis.
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