This article examines the effects of excess capacity on the production cost and technical inefficiency of hotels and restaurants in Norway. The dataset includes a daily unbalanced panel of 94 hotels and restaurants from 2003 to 2014. To accommodate inefficiency, we use an input distance function...

Purpose - This paper aims to display the role of hotel restaurants in gastronomic place branding. The authors view hotel restaurants as having a great potential in the promotion of local gastronomy. Design/methodology/approach - The research was done in several stages. First, the authors selected...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the factors that influence business performance. Business performance, measured by turnover per employee, can be influenced by internal factors in firms, external economic and demand factors, as well as geographic location and agglomeration. The hypotheses...

The present study utilized netnography to explore tourists' memorable hotel experiences. Customer-generated content on TripAdvisor was analysed for identifying the components that contribute to tourists' memorable hotel experiences in Helsinki and Rovaniemi, in Finland. Ten keywords "memorable",...

How career paths are interpreted and conceptualised by hospitality workers and industry representatives remains underexplored in current literature. In this paper, we highlight and discuss sector-specific and contextual factors that influence the possibility of establishing a career within the...

Determining price per room to be charged to customers is an important decision to be taken by hotel management. Hotels frequently change their room rates based on the demand of room, occupancy rate, seasonal pattern, and strategies undertaken by other hotels on pricing. We formulated four models to ...

The paper analyzes the influence of changing tourist arrival on various hotel performance measures related to prices, such as price charges per room, revenue per available room, occupancy rate, and total revenue using price dynamics of Oslo as a case. It also measured whether there is an asymmetric ...

The COVID-19 crisis has had a severe impact on the hospitality industry and its actors. In a very short period of time, hotels were shut down or lost most of their bookings, faced huge financial losses and went into crisis mode. During the pandemic, the hotel industry has struggled with...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess innovation in the hotel sector in Sweden and to investigate how structural and organizational factors influence hotel's likelihood of producing service/product, process, organizational and marketing innovations. Design/methodology/approach: This paper ...

This paper investigates chain hotel employees in Sweden and their ability to work against sex trafficking. Using ten semi-structured interviews, the research asks questions about employee's relationships with external stakeholders (the police, booking channels, non-profit organizations, and...