To understand the potential factors contributing to the choice of location for hotels and hostels in Lisbon, Portugal, we use a logit model incorporating both lodging and location characteristics. Based on a sample of 274 hotels and hostels, we seek (i) to investigate if location strategies and...

This study aimed to analyze the impact of the user-generated content on the management at different categories of Brazilian hotels and to identify the managerial actions taken from these contents. The theoretical reference presented a discussion about the user-generated Content and their influence...

Purpose: Online consumer reviews have become increasingly important for consumer decision-making. One of the most prominent examples is the hotel industry where consumer reviews on websites, such as Bookings.com, TripAdvisor and Venere.com, play a critical role in consumers' choice of a hotel....

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...

In recent years, short-term rental platforms in the lodging sector, including Airbnb, VRBO, and HomeAway, have received extensive attention and emerged as potentially alternative suppliers of services traditionally provided by established commercial accommodation providers, that is, hotels....

In this article, we study the influence of the room properties, hotel amenities, hotel location, and, more importantly, the characteristics of hotels in the surrounding area on the prices of hotel rooms. The effects of different determinants are estimated using the hedonic price model for a...

In the context of strengthening the European integration of Ukraine, it is relevant to study the practice of functioning of the enterprises in the field of hospitality in European countries in order to form recommendations for the implementation of similar experience in domestic enterprises. The...

Although travelers tend to consider multi-dimensional hotel information when choosing their accommodation, few online travel agency (OTA) websites allow them to express their preferences and expectations for the selection criteria to obtain customized hotel ranking results. The lack of this...

The importance of investigating both energy and exergy flows for assessing the environmental profile of buildings has long been acknowledged. Nevertheless, although an ample number of standalone case studies have performed energy analyses in the hospitality industry, empirical studies focusing on...

This study aims to validate the relationships between the dynamic capabilities in the operation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that constitute the Nature Tourism Cluster (also known as "ecotourism") in Colombia, through the application of surveys to managers and owners of hotels and ...