We analyze the relationship between professional sports events and concerts held in LA's Staples Center and nearby hotel performance. Government-led economic redevelopment projects often envision sports facilities as tourist magnets. Little evidence exists supporting links between sporting events...

Sleep quality heavily shapes the tourism experience because tourists spend a large amount of their travel time sleeping. In this study, we propose a conceptual framework of factors influencing sleep quality in hotels based on personal and hotel characteristics. Personal characteristics include...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the study examines the prolonged effect of policy-related economic uncertainty on hotel operating performance, particularly the room demand (occupancy). Second, the study attempts to explain why occupancy drops when the perceived economic...

"News of an American Influence on the Origin of the Paradores Network: the to-and-fro Journey of Ideas and Models" The model of territorial organisation and the heritage value of the public hotel network, arising on the Iberian Peninsula, as we know them today, have a raison d'etre that goes back...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to link consumer use of technology to two very popular themes in the hospitality industry: boutique hotels and environmental responsibility. Design/methodology/approach - The case study focuses on how boutique hotels legitimize their green practices through...

The economic effects of the minimum wage have been the focus of ongoing contradictory debates among policymakers and researchers. This study finds a positive effect of the minimum wage on the operating profitability of hotels in the U.S. However, the pricing practices of full-service hotels are...

The tourism industry is one of the world's largest industries, contributing over $7.6 trillion in 2016, according to Statista (https://www.statista.com/topics/962/global-tourism/). It is also frequently highlighted as a possible agent in promoting peace, as well as improving cross-cultural...

This paper focuses on the managerial response system which is prevalent in online travel websites like TripAdvisor and Booking.com. Hotel managers face a trade-off between the consumers' growing demands for high-quality response contents and the rising costs of review management. One aspect which...

To better understand hotels' cross-channel pricing mechanisms, this study aims to investigate various factors behind price discounts (as a type of price disparity) from a popular last-minute hotel deal app, HotelTonight, compared to major online travel agency (OTA) websites. Using pricing data...

Disruption of existing industries by peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms, like Airbnb, has received extensive media attention primarily regarding the regulatory and the social aspects of the sharing economy. In this paper, we examine the substitution and complementary effects of Airbnb supply on ...