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Cover for Effective management of hotel revenue: lessons from the Swiss hotel industry.

This chapter discusses the skill set and requisites necessary to effectively manage revenue in hotels, based on the experience of the Swiss hotel industry. Further, the chapter also discusses the challenges that the revenue manager can face in terms of different products that will deliver in...

Author(s)
Varini, K.; Diamantis, D.
ISBN
2006 CABI (H ISBN 9781845930127)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Pata and Jetwing: John Koldowski interviews Chi Lo and Senal Siriwardene.

This chapter is a record of interviews with Chi Lo, sustainability and social responsibility specialist of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), and Senal Siriwardene, an experiential architect at Jetwing Hotels, about the position of their organization/company on elephants and tourism.

Author(s)
Koldowski, J.
ISBN
2021 CABI (H ISBN 9781789245868)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Marketing tourism and hospitality services.

This chapter examines how service marketing decisions on branding, positioning, enhancement to core services, advertising and pricing have consequences for tourists' purchasing behaviour and influence their expectations of service quality. A case study illustrates how two hotels in Australia...

Author(s)
Laws, E.
ISBN
2004 CABI Publishing (H ISBN 9780851999951)
Type
Book chapter
Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak has changed rapidly the business operation and travel behavior of global communities and calls for research on resilience. This study aims to identify the changing destination image of Thailand as a MICE destination during crises and examine the resilience of Thai MICE...

Author(s)
Rittichainuwat, B.; Laws, E.; Maunchontham, R.; Rattanaphinanchai, S.; Muttamara, S.; Mouton, K.; Lin YueLing; Suksai, C.
Publisher
Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Tourism Management Perspectives, 2020, 35,
Abstract

This paper considers the way in which operators and destination authorities can work within a destination region; illustrating how the problems, resulting from different geographic scales and the objectives of business units and government agencies, can be tackled through cooperative marketing...

Author(s)
Scott, N.; Parfitt, N.; Laws, E.
Publisher
Continuum, London, UK
Citation
Tourism in the twenty-first century: reflections on experience, 2001, pp 198-221
Abstract

"Quality tourism experiences," including its singular form, is a well used phrase in tourism industry literature and traveller dialogues. Yet definitions of a quality tourism experience remain elusive. Tourism studies, recreation and marketing literature similarly resonate with numerous...

Author(s)
Jennings, G.; Lee YoungSook; Ayling, A.; Lunny, B.; Cater, C.; Ollenburg, C.
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Philadelphia, USA
Citation
Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 2009, 18, 2/3, pp 294-310
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Cover for Using the critical incidents technique to understand service quality in tourist accommodation.

This chapter studies one particular method for examining and improving customer perceptions of service quality: the critical incidents technique (CIT). In particular, the chapter reviews the use of CIT in tourism and hospitality and presents the results of a study of critical incidents reported by...

Author(s)
Moscardo, G.
ISBN
2006 CABI (H ISBN 9781845930127)
Type
Book chapter
Abstract

This paper examines issues involved in the definition, creation, and use of knowledge about the Chinese outbound market. It provides an initial view of the type of knowledge required by tourism managers in Australia, some suggestions about where this knowledge is available, or how it may be...

Author(s)
Pan, G. W.; Scott, N.; Laws, E.
Publisher
Haworth Hospitality Press, Binghamton, USA
Citation
Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, 2006, 7, 1/2, pp 99-116
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Cover for Service quality at the cellar door: a lesson in services marketing from Western Australia's wine-tourism sector.

This chapter addresses four key issues: (1) the emergence of the wine-tourism phenomenon within Australia and the importance of the service quality issue to the future development and success of this sector; (2) the difficulties faced by cellar door operators in their efforts to continually exceed...

Author(s)
O'Neill, M.; Charters, S.
ISBN
2006 CABI (H ISBN 9781845930127)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Improving tourism and hospitality services.

This book analyses the nature and quality of service experiences for the tourism and hospitality industry's clients, its staff and others affected by its operations. It draws together several approaches for the study of tourist satisfaction, equating this with quality in tourism and hospitality...

Author(s)
Laws, E.
ISBN
2004 CABI Publishing (H ISBN 9780851999951)
Type
Book

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