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    • Hotel Brand Conversions: What Works and What Doesn’t 

      Dev, Chekitan (2015-11-11)
      As many as one-third of U.S. hotels have been converted from one brand to another in recent years, a process that frequently improves the hotel’s financial performance—although that is not always the case. Using data ...

    • Hotel Brand Standards: How to Pick the Right Amenities for Your Property 

      Dev, Chekitan; Hamilton, Rebecca; Rust, Roland (2017-02-01)
      Amenities specified by hotel companies’ brand standards can become a point of contention between hotel owners and brand managers. At issue for the owner is whether offering a particular amenity justifies the expense, while ...

    • Hotel Daily Deals: Insights from Asian Consumers 

      Kimes, Sheryl E.; Dev, Chekitan S. (2013-09-01)
      Given that Asia accounts for more than half of the world’s population and its hotels are thriving, this study analyzes the attitudes toward daily deal offers of hotel guests in five Asian nations. While the respondents, ...

    • Hotel Guests’ Reactions to Guest Room Sustainability Initiatives 

      Susskind, Alex M.; Verma, Rohit (2011-03-01)
      This study employs an empirical procedure to address a key issue regarding energy-saving manipulations to hotel guest rooms. That issue is how guests will react to changes that are intended to save energy—or whether the ...

    • Hotel Il San Pietro di Positano: Strengthening an Extraordinary Independent Brand 

      Dev, Chekitan; Stroock, Laure Mougeot (2022-11-02)
      It was mid-June 2022 and Vito and Carlo Cinque, two brothers at the helm of the world-renowned Italian 5-star hotel Il San Pietro (ISP) since 1996, had reasons to rejoice. Located in Positano on the Amalfi Coast, south of ...

    • Hotel Network Security: A Study of Computer Networks in U.S. Hotels 

      Ogle, Josh; Wagner, Erica L.; Talbert, Mark P. (2008-09-01)
      A study of 147 U.S. hotels finds a mixed picture with regard to the security of guests’ connections to the hotels’ network, whether by cable or Wi-Fi. Since many business travelers connect remotely to continue working while ...

    • Hotel Performance Impact of Socially Engaging with Consumers 

      Anderson, Chris K.; Han, Saram (2016-04-05)
      User reviews have become a critical aspect of the travel research process, as evidenced, for instance, by TripAdvisor having over 350 million unique monthly visitors.1 One benefit of these posted reviews is that hotels can ...

    • Hotel Profit Implications from Rising Wages and Inflation in the U.S. 

      Corgel, John B. (2016-06-27)
      Macroeconomic models based on the Phillips Curve predict that as the unemployment rate declines toward the long-run, natural rate, the pace of wage and price growth accelerates and inflation rises.1 In this paper I analyze ...

    • Hotel Revenue Management in an Economic Downturn: Results from an International Study 

      Kimes, Sheryl E. (2009-08-01)
      The sudden reversal in the lodging industry’s fortunes from 2008 to 2009 has brought a renewed focus on revenue and profitability for revenue managers. In a survey conducted in 2009, 291 revenue managers cited concerns ...

    • Hotel Revenue Management: Today and Tomorrow 

      Kimes, Sheryl E. (2008-08-01)
      Hotel revenue management needs stronger support from human resources policies, according to this survey of 186 revenue managers. At the same time, respondents to the survey anticipate that revenue management will extend ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking 

      Chong, Howard; Ricaurte, Eric (2014-05-02)
      A landmark Cornell University study has industry-wide data collection and analysis effort to benchmark. This report highlights the results of the first Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking (CHSB) study which focuses ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking (HSB) Study 

      Chong, Howard; Ricaurte, Eric (2014-01-31)
      [Excerpt] This document presents the results of the first Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking (HSB) study of hotel carbon and energy data from the 2012 calendar year, which may evolve and repeat annually. By developing ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index 2016: Energy, Water, and Carbon 

      Ricaurte, Eric (2016-07-08)
      Several studies have been undertaken or attempted by industry and academe to address the need for lodging industry carbon benchmarking. However, these studies have focused on normalizing resource use with the goal of rating ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index 2017: Energy, Water, and Carbon 

      Ricaurte, Eric (2017-12-01)
      This report presents the results of the fourth annual Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking (CHSB) study, an update to last year’s CHSB2016 study, which was undertaken as a collaborative effort of the Cornell University ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index 2020: Carbon, Energy, and Water 

      Ricaurte, Eric; Jagarajan, Rehmaashini (2020-11-13)
      The seventh annual Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking study includes data from considerably more hotels than last year. While the bulk of the data still come from hotels in the United States, the study also recorded ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index 2021: Carbon, Energy, and Water 

      Ricaurte, Eric; Jagarajan, Rehmaashini (2021-09-21)
      The annual Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking study, published for the eighth consecutive year, finds a general reduction in energy and water usage among the participating hotels over the past three years (2017 ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index 2023 

      Ricaurte, Eric; Jagarajan, Rehmaashini (2023-06-06)
      For the ninth consecutive year, the annual Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking research reveals a general decrease in energy and water usage among the participating hotels. The decrease is largely associated with the ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Study 

      Chong, Howard G.; Ricaurte, Eric E. (2014-05-01)
      This document presents the results of the first Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking (CHSB) study of hotel carbon and energy data. To date this research represents the single largest publicly available benchmarking ...

    • Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Tool 2015: Energy, Water, and Carbon 

      Chong, Howard; Ricaurte, Eric E. (2015-07-01)
      This tool—a result of the Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking (CHSB) study—grows out of a series of meetings and roundtables in which lodging industry representatives expressed the need to develop operating benchmarks ...

    • Hotel Sustainability: Financial Analysis Shines a Cautious Green Light 

      Chong, Howard; Verma, Rohit (2013-10-01)
      Hotels around the world have risen to the challenge of improving their sustainability and reducing their carbon footprint. Although many groups and customers are demanding sustainability, hotel operators are concerned about ...