The contribution of former hotel enterprises is evident in the analysis of lodging industry development in Turkey. One of those hotels is Park Hotel, which was first established in 1930 under the name Mirimare in the first years of Republic. This study aims to examine the history of that...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to figure out the impacts of soft innovation in the city hotels in general, whereas the focus is on figuring out if there exists a difference in vitality on the components of soft innovation among the hotel categories, as 4 stars, 5 stars and boutique hotels in ...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the degree to which budget and mid-range hoteliers perceive Airbnb as a threat, and the extent to which they are actively responding to the peer-to-peer accommodation business model. Design/methodology/approach - The study draws on qualitative data...

Providing temporary accommodation for visitors, hotels usually make permanent location choices as a strategic managerial decision. This study is shaped around the research question of how urban hotels appreciate their locational attributes considering their operationality. By this way, it is aimed...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the satisfaction of the guests who stay at hotels offering technology-supported products and services related to the services and products they receive by using the opinion mining technique. Design/methodology/approach: In this research, 12,396...

One of the important parts of tourism destinations is hotels. Tourists need some references when choosing hotels. Hotels frequently use social media tools, which constitute an important part of these references, in their promotional activities. Thanks to social media tools, hotels can transform...

Working capital decisions are effective in liquidity, credibility and increase in sales of companies. Efficient working capital management can increase profitability and firm value. On the other hand, failure and bankruptcy can be the result of inefficiency in working capital management. The index...

Among other business types, hotels serving as temporary accommodation for visitors with solid ties to local conditions present unique hazard-prone characteristics, and show vulnerabilities based on their location. Departing from the significance of the topic for the Turkish case, this paper focuses ...

The study aims to evaluate the status of literary hotels in literary tourism and to discuss whether literary hotels are just a literary tourism product or should be a separate type of literary tourism. The study seeks to answer the following questions: (1) What are the literary connections of...

The number of halal business hotel concept in Turkey in recent years, especially in regions where intensive maritime tourism has been increasing. However, there are no such hotels in the Cappadocia destination. The main purpose of this study is to determine the thoughts of hotel managers in the...