Guest Rooms Research Articles

Regarding Family Photography in Contemporary Latinx Art

While staying in the guest room of my mother-in-law’s house last summer, I noticed a pixelated copy of a wedding portrait of her Tejano parents tucked between the frame and the mirror of the dresse...

The Managerial Study of Pro-Environmental Behavior in Luxury Hotel Industry: An Example of Reducing Disposal Amenities

The appearance of pro-environmental measures has become a manifestation of the global trend in many industries, and hotel management is no exception. The reduction of guest room disposable amenities in hotel operation has seen much improvement and has become more effective in recent years. These are a commonly encountered practical measured toward lower carbon emissions, and consist of eco-friendly materials and supplies. However, it is not immediately clear how measures for the promotion of such efforts can be effectively taken by hotel residents. Drawing upon the notion of pro-environmental behavior from the hotel management side, this study investigated the reduction of guest room amenities, its acceptance from by guests, and the hotel’s business performance obtained from data provided by luxury hotels in Guangzhou, China. To this end, a two-way ANOVA statistical model was utilized. In addition, this study empirically demonstrated primary results and implications, and suggests cost-saving methods for hotel operations.

Exploring the viability of a new ‘pay-as-you-use’ energy management model in budget hotels

• Proposes a new energy management model for hotels based on intelligent technology. • Explores the viability of this model with managers of UK budget hotels. • Highlights the determinants of the model’s industrial uptake. • Discards the idea of using the model to penalise guests for excessive energy use. • Shows the model can be used to reward guests for energy conservation. Hotels consume significant amounts of energy, especially in guest rooms. Financial incentives can be given to hotel guests for conserving energy during their stay while financial penalties can be applied for excessive energy use. This can be achieved by deploying the smart energy meters (SEMs) in guest rooms that enable accurate energy monitoring and billing. This study explored the viability of a new business model for energy management in hotels underpinned by SEMs. Semi-structured interviews with managers of UK budget hotels revealed the determinants of industrial adoption of this new model. Despite positive appeal, the chances for the model’s immediate commercialisation were found slim due to its novelty and the market disruption potential held. To enhance the business viability of the proposed model, close integration of energy conservation targets into the corporate agenda of budget hotels is necessary coupled with dedicated policy support.

Impact of Adding Comfort Cooling Systems on the Energy Consumption and EPC Rating of an Existing UK Hotel

In light of the recent launch of the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard and its expected impact on the commercial buildings sector, this study investigated the impact of adding cooling systems on the annual energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and energy performance certificate (EPC) rating of an existing UK hotel. Thermal Analysis Software (TAS) was used to conduct the study, and the baseline model was validated against the actual data. As is the current accepted procedure in EPC generating in the UK, the cooling set points of the guest rooms were set to 25 °C, resulting in a small increase in the annual energy consumption and emission rates, but not enough to change the energy performance certificate rating. Also, it was found that an improvement in energy consumption and energy performance certificate rating of the hotel would be achieved if the new systems replaced the existing heating systems in the guest rooms. Further simulations investigated more realistic situations, in which occupants may decide to keep their rooms at cooler temperatures. The results from this round of simulations showed considerable increase in the energy consumption and emissions of the building; however, these results would not be considered in the current approved procedure for EPC generating.

Characterizing Variations in the Indoor Temperature and Humidity of Guest Rooms with an Occupancy-Based Climate Control Technology

This paper characterizes variations in the indoor temperature and humidity profiles of actual guest rooms equipped with Occupancy-Based Climate Control (OBCC) systems that were used to initiate a temperature setback to 15.6 °C in the winter and to 26.7 °C in the summer in the guest rooms. Empirical knowledge of these conditions can provide useful insights for an improved field demonstration and optimization of OBCC, as well as for a more realistic temperature and occupancy input for building simulations for hotel guest rooms. As a result, one year of one minute temperatures and humidity data was characterized against outdoor climate for three different occupancy modes, which was useful to identify the observed room-to-room variations in heat losses and resultant indoor temperatures during the heating season due to the different dynamic heat balance conditions of the guest rooms. This indicated potential discomfort in the rooms that appeared to have a stronger association between outdoor and indoor temperatures, which was also identified from the thermal comfort survey indicating thermostat-related discomfort sources. Interestingly enough, the guests who stayed in these rooms tended to set their thermostat at higher setpoint temperatures when they occupied the room, which appeared to compensate for the low balance-point temperatures of these rooms.

ACHIEVING THE QUALITY OF THE LIGHT ENVIRONMENT INSIDE HOTEL ROOMS USING SMART SYSTEMS

This research presents how to achieve the quality of the photovoltaic for hotel accommodation in hotels using smart systems, as reducing energy consumption rates is a major goal of the smart hotel design, which is directly related to the efficiency of the internal of the guest rooms, the higher the quality of the photovoltaic the lower the rates Energy consumption, as it achieves a quality in the hotel's accommodation rooms, achieving visual comfort. A high-quality is provided with attention to the quality of the thermal environment and the quality of indoor air environment as well as a good light environment, which affects the visitor's sense of comfort inside the room through the elements of perceptual components of that internal as the quality of the internal is linked A direct correlation to achieving energy efficiency, and this research will explain how to achieve the quality of the photovoltaic in smart hotel rooms, thus achieving comfort for visitors and reduces energy consumption by using smart systems. تقدم هذه الورقة البحثية کيفية تحقيق جودة الضوئية لغرف الإقامة في الفنادق باستخدام الأنظمة الذکية، حيث أن تقليل معدلات استهلاک الطاقة هدف رئيسي من أهداف تصميم الفندق الذکي، وهو ما يرتبط مباشرة بمدى کفاءة لغرف الإقامة، فکلما زادت جودة الضوئية کلما قلت معدلات استهلاک الطاقة، کما أنه يحقق جودة داخل غرف الإقامة للزائرين في الفندق، ومحققة للراحة البصرية. يتم توفير داخلية عالية الجودة بالاهتمام بجودة البيئة الحرارية وجودة بيئة الهواء الداخلية وأيضا بيئة ضوئية جيدة، وهو ما يؤثر على شعور الزائر بالراحة داخل الغرفة من خلال عناصر الإدراک الحسي لمکونات تلک الداخلية، کما أن جودة مرتبطة ارتباطا طرديا بتحقيق کفاءة الطاقة، وهذا البحث سوف يوضح کيفية تحقيق جودة الضوئية في غرف الفنادق الذکية مما يحقق راحة للزائرين ويقلل من استهلاک الطاقة وذلک باستخدام الأنظمة الذکية.

Estimating Personalized Demand with Unobserved No-purchases using a Mixture Model: An Application in the Hotel Industry

Estimating customer demand for revenue management solutions faces two main hurdles: unobservable no-purchases and non-homogenous customer populations with varying preferences. We propose a novel and practical estimation and segmentation methodology that overcomes both challenges simultaneously. We combine the estimation of discrete choice modeling under unobservable no-purchases with a data-driven identification of customer segments. In collaboration with our industry partner, Oracle Hospitality Global Business Unit, we demonstrate our methodology in the hotel industry setting, where increased competition has driven hoteliers to look for more innovative revenue management practices such as personalized offers for their guests. Our methodology predicts demand for multiple types of hotel rooms based on guest characteristics, travel attributes, and room features. Our framework combines clustering techniques with choice modeling to develop a mixture of multinomial logit discrete choice models and uses Bayesian inference to estimate model parameters. In addition to predicting the probability of an individual guest's room type choice, our model delivers additional insights on segmentation with its capability to classify each guest into segments (or a mixture of segments) based on their characteristics. We first show using Monte-Carlo simulations that our method outperforms several benchmark methods in prediction accuracy, with nearly unbiased estimates of the choice model parameters and the size of the no-purchase incidents. We then demonstrate our method on a real hotel dataset and illustrate how the model results can be used to drive insights for personalized offers and pricing. Our proposed framework provides a practical approach for a complicated demand estimation problem, and can help hoteliers segment their guests based on their preferences, which can serve as a valuable input for personalized offer selection and pricing decisions.

If They Ask, What Are You Working On?

If They Ask, What Are You Working On? Susan Jackson Rodgers (bio) I might say: I am working on fifty first sentences. Or, I am working on a list of titles for the next thing I will be working on. Really, I am alphabetizing the books that I have moved into the room that used to be my daughter's room. She is grown now, living in another city. I am removing the nail polish from the carpet. I am working on making her room into something other than her room. Guest room, sitting room. Room for lying on the floor with the cat and looking up at the mobile I bought at an art museum gift shop, orange and yellow and red paper birds rotating around and around whenever the floor vent emits a gust of heat. Small birds connected to larger birds by invisible threads. The window blind slats are bent, from my daughter's impatient raising and lowering of the blinds. Otherwise, I have mostly painted over the room's problems. I paint the walls while listening to reality shows on my laptop, a show about restaurant disasters, a travel show whose host recently killed himself, and another show starring a holy man with three wives who is considering taking on a fourth. Partly, this fourth wife is the decision of the existing wives. They make it sound like a love-challenge, like it's something noble that elevates them above the rest of us, like let's see how far we can push this thing. Pretty far, as it turns out. [End Page 67] I am working also on hope. I am working on peace—my own, not the world's; the world is, it seems, doomed. "It's a wrap," my son says. "The planet is done for. We messed up bad." One feels this, every day, this too-lateness. It is late indeed. When I see photos of myself I always think, Wait, is that how I look now? Like one of those Older Ladies. I am one of those Older Ladies! I am working on being patient with the literary magazine that has had my story for over a year but will still probably, inevitably, say, No thank you and sorry for the long wait! A year seems like a long time to read a story or even to read many stories. If they ask what I am working on I could also say I am working on avoiding the pitfalls involved in teaching students who are poised to pounce at any moment, ready to point a finger at you and say THERE! YOU SAID IT! THE THING YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO SAY! which might be different from the thing you weren't supposed to say yesterday BUT YOU ARE CLEARLY NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT. YOU ARE CLEARLY NOT SUPPOSED TO. Nothing is clear, my dears. Their anger, their fragility. All these young people with anxiety disorders, migraines, depression. They are suffering from past and present traumas. I am working on saying the right thing so we can understand each other. They, also, don't always understand. They, also, don't see that their lack of understanding of what came before, and those of us who lived through it—that is also A Thing. If they ask you what you are working on, shrug and say, I am working on A Thing. I am also working on keeping the finches in finch food, until I discover that the finch food is attracting rats to the backyard, pairs of rats [End Page 68] with pairs of eyes that glow when I shine the flashlight on the birdfeeder at night, and then I can't feed the birds at all anymore. The cat, declawed, is no help. I am working on keeping my mother's antique grandmother clock running. She forgets sometimes to wind it, or winds it too much. I am working on keeping the kitchen counters clean, the laundry folded, the newspapers read. I have stacked sections of the Sunday Times in my daughter's old room, convinced I will read the sections later. The Style sections alone will take me...

Magnet Man

Magnet Man Lydia Paar (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Photo by the author [End Page 76] I shift from foot to foot. Both my feet hurt. I'm packing magnets at my dad's factory, and the rubber mats meant to cushion my joints from the floor don't help. [End Page 77] A little to my left is bald-topped Tom, and a little to my right is chatty Candy, and in front of me is a concrete wall. If I go further to the left of Tom, the warehouse door opens out onto the parking lot, where my dad eats lunch in his car. I understand why he does—he's a salesman, albeit one trained in the physics of ferrite, who draws complex equations for his clients in China—but still, he spends a lot of time on the phone: yak, yak, yak. I'd hate it: I'd rather pack, although I'm not allowed to pack the rare-earth bundles, so strong they could crush my fingers without enough cardboard between to keep their relentless attractions apart. Plus, the packing jobs I do are not always so good to start: a few broken shipments have come back in the mail, and sometimes I wonder if I ever properly learned to count. Candy shows me how to weigh the smaller pellet-magnets properly in batches, and that helps a little. ________ For as long as I can remember, my dad has worked in this field. When I was little, he used to run factories: machines pouring water over metal to cool, cut, and convert raw matter into magnet. Now, he sells the attractive and repulsive pieces of metal for a boss he dislikes. I live, for the moment, at his house in his spare room, and he gives me sixty dollars a week to clean, out of kindness, as I am broke. I pack at his factory while I think about my ex-fiancé. What a dumb word, fiancé: a label for the in-between. It felt fake when I said it to people, and I felt like a liar when I went to try on dresses: something wasn't quite right in the idea of marrying Jacob at the time I'd agreed to. But, staring into the plain gray factory walls, I still miss him. Beyond the walls and the factory parking lot and my dad in the car are several open tall-grass fields, like there always are at Dad's factories, and I wish I could wander there alone with my thoughts instead of slapping on packing labels, then slapping on my best attempt at a smile when Candy comes to chat. But I can't. I have to make money. ________ When I walked back into the Portland International Airport after my impending marriage collapsed, the famously green-bubble carpet looked suspiciously, for the first time, like barf. When I got to baggage claim, my whole little family was there. Mom had remarried into a tiny new apartment where there was no room for visitors, and my brother explained his disinclination to host me this way: "Every time you visit, you drop your bags on the floor, and they explode your stuff all over my [End Page 78] house." He made the motion of a little big bang with his hands, fingers blooming slowly outward. "Plus, I don't know when you'd leave." Certainly, jobs can be tough to find in Portland, what with the influx of people just like me (youngish, educated, artsy) competing en masse in similar industries. But I felt like leaving everywhere all the time now, I almost said to my brother—and even running off to Peru, a place I'd always dreamed of visiting, after the breakup hadn't brought any joy—so not to worry; I doubted I'd stick around long. But that might have sounded too grim. I hadn't seen my dad since I'd told him, over the phone in an argument three months prior, that he was a "conditionally loving parent," yet he was the one who offered me a guest room to land in...

Ivana DobrakovováBellevue

Sonallah Ibrahim Ice Trans. Margaret Litvin. London. Seagull Books. 2019. 303 pages. IN 2016 I CHATTED with Sonallah Ibrahim about his then-new novel, Berlin 69. I asked him: “Did your experience in East Germany and Russia (1969–74) give you a useful perspective on Nasser’s version of socialism?” He replied: “The dream was fantastic, but it remains a dream.” His new novel, Ice, translated by Margaret Litvin, takes a scalpel to the “fantastic dream” of communism through the eagle eyes of a wry Egyptian narrator who has come to study in Russia. The novel echoes some of the themes of Berlin 69: coping with paranoia and the fear of intelligence services, nostalgia for Egypt, transient relationships with foreign women, the hunt for scarce commodities, and a corrupt party elite. Unlike Berlin 69, however, the structure of Ice mimics a diary—and depends on the writer’s telegraphic but carefully honed style, which gives the reader a sense of the chilling, grim texture of daily life in Soviet Russia in the 1970s. Ibrahim lived in Moscow during a crucial period in Egypt’s history , following the 1967 defeat and Egypt’s 1973 victory over Israel. Ice is an episodic novel rather than a plot-driven one, which quietly circles around the “fantastic dream” until it has been picked clean, like a carcass. The “dream” begins to curdle soon after the narrator’s arrival to the obshchezhitie, the student dorm. The officials in charge of the dorm want to place a Russian in with the foreigners so they can report on their activities . An inordinate number of foreigners are crammed in the same dorm room. The Egyptian narrator, presumably a younger version of Ibrahim, is awed by his roommate , Hans, a handsome East German and a Don Juan who attracts women and men. A constant parade of friends and acquaintances marches through the small room, along with plenty of uninhibited foreign and Russian girls, who are generous with their bodies. The reserved narrator tires of the bacchanalia and yearns for solitude and time to write, read, listen to classical music, or work his way through the Arabic newspapers about the disturbing news from Egypt. Desperate for a little privacy, he moves out of the broom closet to an even tinier abode with a cranky old Russian lady—only to jump from the frying pan into the fire. The landlady is nosy, lonely, and demanding and comments on his love life. Shortages of goods and commodities in a state-controlled economy lead to other absurd situations and behavior. When he is getting medical treatment, the doctor clearly states that he needs a new tire for his car. On SONALLAH IBRAHIM Books in Review for giving her a shiner. For her part, Serena equates the puppy with her abuser and instinctively unleashes her fury at her canine companion, perpetuating the cycle of violence and reconciliation: When he [Niko] picked Trouble out of the litter, I thought he’d stay that same size forever, the size of an organ, sticky-soft and warm. We took Trouble home. He trembled, then ripped up the sectional Niko had bought without insurance. “Cut it out, you fucking monster!” I screamed. In my spot, in the closet of the guest room, he fell asleep in my arms, where he had puppy dreams. His paws moved like levers in a field where he was free and unleashed. By tracing these interiorities, Driving in Cars with Homeless Men invites readers to face the underbelly of human nature, our precariousness, and intermittent despair with determination, grit, and hard-won humor. Kathleen A. Kelly Austin, Texas Ivana Dobrakovová Bellevue Trans. Julia & Peter Sherwood. London. Jantar. 2019. 219 pages. IN BELLEVUE, Ivana Dobrakovová, winner of the European Prize for Literature, pulls no punches for her readers or her protagonist, nineteen-year-old Slovak student Blanka, a volunteer at an international summer camp providing care for people with mental and physical disabilities. At the center in Marseille that gives the book its title, Blanka experiences disgust at the residents’ deformed limbs and uncontrolled bodily functions—as well as disgust at her own disgust. Faced with Laurence, a woman her own age with particularly severe...

Divide and Conquer: A Hygienic, Efficient, and Reliable Assembly-Line for Housekeeping

The transmission of infectious diseases during hotel stays (e.g., by touching unclean towels or bed linens) has been reported globally. Although the majority of hotels now follow international standards on the housekeeping and laundry processes, the number of hygiene-related problems remains high. In a field study at a high-end hotel in China, we revealed a possible channel of disease transmission between consecutive guests in hotel rooms. In order to prevent the transmission, we designed an innovative hotel guest room housekeeping process. To optimize the labor efficiency, we decomposed the housekeeping process and characterized the service time distribution of each operational step using data collected from hundreds of times of housekeeping. Our pilot test results showed that the new housekeeping process achieves significant improvement in not only hygienic standards but also labor efficiency and service quality (error rate).

Sonallah IbrahimIce by Margaret Litvin

Sonallah Ibrahim Ice Trans. Margaret Litvin. London. Seagull Books. 2019. 303 pages. IN 2016 I CHATTED with Sonallah Ibrahim about his then-new novel, Berlin 69. I asked him: “Did your experience in East Germany and Russia (1969–74) give you a useful perspective on Nasser’s version of socialism?” He replied: “The dream was fantastic, but it remains a dream.” His new novel, Ice, translated by Margaret Litvin, takes a scalpel to the “fantastic dream” of communism through the eagle eyes of a wry Egyptian narrator who has come to study in Russia. The novel echoes some of the themes of Berlin 69: coping with paranoia and the fear of intelligence services, nostalgia for Egypt, transient relationships with foreign women, the hunt for scarce commodities, and a corrupt party elite. Unlike Berlin 69, however, the structure of Ice mimics a diary—and depends on the writer’s telegraphic but carefully honed style, which gives the reader a sense of the chilling, grim texture of daily life in Soviet Russia in the 1970s. Ibrahim lived in Moscow during a crucial period in Egypt’s history , following the 1967 defeat and Egypt’s 1973 victory over Israel. Ice is an episodic novel rather than a plot-driven one, which quietly circles around the “fantastic dream” until it has been picked clean, like a carcass. The “dream” begins to curdle soon after the narrator’s arrival to the obshchezhitie, the student dorm. The officials in charge of the dorm want to place a Russian in with the foreigners so they can report on their activities . An inordinate number of foreigners are crammed in the same dorm room. The Egyptian narrator, presumably a younger version of Ibrahim, is awed by his roommate , Hans, a handsome East German and a Don Juan who attracts women and men. A constant parade of friends and acquaintances marches through the small room, along with plenty of uninhibited foreign and Russian girls, who are generous with their bodies. The reserved narrator tires of the bacchanalia and yearns for solitude and time to write, read, listen to classical music, or work his way through the Arabic newspapers about the disturbing news from Egypt. Desperate for a little privacy, he moves out of the broom closet to an even tinier abode with a cranky old Russian lady—only to jump from the frying pan into the fire. The landlady is nosy, lonely, and demanding and comments on his love life. Shortages of goods and commodities in a state-controlled economy lead to other absurd situations and behavior. When he is getting medical treatment, the doctor clearly states that he needs a new tire for his car. On SONALLAH IBRAHIM Books in Review for giving her a shiner. For her part, Serena equates the puppy with her abuser and instinctively unleashes her fury at her canine companion, perpetuating the cycle of violence and reconciliation: When he [Niko] picked Trouble out of the litter, I thought he’d stay that same size forever, the size of an organ, sticky-soft and warm. We took Trouble home. He trembled, then ripped up the sectional Niko had bought without insurance. “Cut it out, you fucking monster!” I screamed. In my spot, in the closet of the guest room, he fell asleep in my arms, where he had puppy dreams. His paws moved like levers in a field where he was free and unleashed. By tracing these interiorities, Driving in Cars with Homeless Men invites readers to face the underbelly of human nature, our precariousness, and intermittent despair with determination, grit, and hard-won humor. Kathleen A. Kelly Austin, Texas Ivana Dobrakovová Bellevue Trans. Julia & Peter Sherwood. London. Jantar. 2019. 219 pages. IN BELLEVUE, Ivana Dobrakovová, winner of the European Prize for Literature, pulls no punches for her readers or her protagonist, nineteen-year-old Slovak student Blanka, a volunteer at an international summer camp providing care for people with mental and physical disabilities. At the center in Marseille that gives the book its title, Blanka experiences disgust at the residents’ deformed limbs and uncontrolled bodily functions—as well as disgust at her own disgust. Faced with Laurence, a woman her own age with particularly severe...

Examining the relationship between the price, the characteristics and the visitor evaluation of attributes of Italian farmhouses with an educational farm

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the price charged for a guest room in a farmhouse with an educational farm, the farmhouse characteristics and the visitor evaluation of the principal external and internal farmhouse attributes.Design/methodology/approachA large sample of 10,880 visitor reviews, extrapolated from the websites of 399 Italian farmhouses with an educational farm (FEF), was analyzed. Principal component analysis (PCA) was performed to identify the main latent dimensions of the farmhouses (visitor satisfaction with farmhouse attributes, farmhouse dimensions, visitor frequency, farmhouse services, types of accommodation and altitude) that affect the price charged for a guest room. Subsequently, multivariate regression was applied to measure the impact of these new latent factors on the price.FindingsOverall, the results indicate that the price of a farmhouse with an educational farm – in the context of this niche of the Italian agritourism sector – reflects the visitor evaluation of the farmhouse attributes (especially activities and facilities available in the surrounding countryside), the farmhouse dimensions, the types of accommodation, the number of services on offer and the presence of connectivity (WI-FI). In addition, the results reveal that the price represents an important driver that guides guests in their choice of a farmhouse and that it affects visitor satisfaction with farmhouse attributes.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the sample chosen, the data gathered are limited to one type of organization – Italian FEF. Furthermore, it may be important to investigate in more depth some issues that remain partly unanswered that concern this niche of the Italian agritourism sector.Practical implicationsThanks to the identification of latent dimensions by PCA and the examination of their impact on the farmhouse price, farmhouse operators can understanda priorithe main determinants on which to focus to improve the quality of activities and facilities available in the farmhouse location to better satisfy visitor expectations.Originality/valueThis study provides new and practical insights into the farmhouse experience in Italian municipalities, an area where very limited research has been conducted. Indeed, this is one of the few studies to focus on online reviews to evaluate more than two farmhouse attributes and their impact on pricing.

A Study on the Image Color Analysis of Hotel Guest Rooms for User-Focusing on the Image of Hotel Reservation App

A Study on the Image Color Analysis of Hotel Guest Rooms for User-Focusing on the Image of Hotel Reservation App

Theory of Lodging

For the initial development of the theory of lodging, the focus was on guest behavior in a hotel room. The theory is expanded to encompass the guest behavior in the entire hotel facility, including entrance into the lobby, private usage of the room, and time spent in such areas as the restaurant, lounge, gift shop, gym, spa, function rooms, and so on. The theory began with the observed differences in human behavior while at home versus during an overnight stay at a commercial lodging establishment. Further consideration is given to the guest behavior inside the public spaces of a hotel, which is beyond the privacy of the guest room but still within the protective boundary of the hotel building itself, and which is all a part of the lodging experience.

The Potential of Capsule Hotel Service in Semarang

In the last seven years, hospitality and tourism industry becomes one of the world’s fastest-growing industries (Carter, 2018). The data for this proposal are gathered from primary data (direct observation and questionnaires) and secondary data (online publications). Capsule Hotel Service provides capsule rooms for guests to stay, as well as one-stop-culinary The purpose of this feasibility research study is to see whether this business is feasible or not by looking at the marketing aspect.
 

Optimal capacity and operation design of a robot logistics system for the hotel industry

This study introduces an optimal capacity and operation design of a robot logistics system that can reduce human workload in the hotel industry. In hotels, there are several duties that can be replaced by robots such as accompanying guests to the certain areas, delivering specific items to the guest rooms, and transporting some items that guests want to be removed from the guest rooms. To apply the robot logistics system in the hotel industry, the capacity and operation design should be prepared adequately. For that, a mathematical model-based optimization technique is used to decide the number of robots with the concept of minimizing total investment cost and to derive the optimal job assigning with the purpose of maximizing total covered jobs. In addition, a numerical example is performed to validate the proposed mathematical model and the sensitivity tests are examined to reflect the random features.

호텔 객실상품 광고에서의 메시지 프레이밍 유형과 희소성 메시지에 따른 구매의도 비교 분석 : 성별의 조절효과

호텔 객실상품 광고에서의 메시지 프레이밍 유형과 희소성 메시지에 따른 구매의도 비교 분석 : 성별의 조절효과

Field Survey of Thermal Comfort and Sleep Quality in the Bedrooms with Different Cooling Strategies in Malaysia

This study aims to determine the indoor comfort temperature before sleep and after wake up in air-conditioning (AC) mode with different adaptive cooling strategies. Two units of guest rooms on the university campus were used with a total of 20 participants. The arbitrary-controlled AC setting (case 1) and control of thermostat setting by 3∘C higher than case 1 with installing of cool bed padding (case 2) were employed as cooling strategies in this study. The measurement parameters were indoor and outdoor air temperatures, globe temperature, relative humidity, air velocity, and AC electricity consumption. The questionnaire survey has also been distributed twice a day for “before going to bed” and “after waking up” during measurement simultaneously. It was observed that thermal sensation vote (TSV) indicated for both cases were within -1 ≤ TSV ≤ 1 and respondents might accept the present condition for both cases. Mean thermal preference (TP) in both cases either “before going to bed” and “after waking up” was found mostly close to “0 no change” (0.1 ≤ TP ≤ 0.3) for all cases. Overall comfort (OC) ranged between 4.7 and 4.9 for both cases, indicating for “comfortable.” However, air movement sensation (AMS) shows respondent felt weak airflow inside the room for all ventilation strategies. The skin moisture sensation (SMS) shows value pointed to neutral feeling for all cases. The comfort temperature obtained by Griffiths’ method was approximately 24∘C and 25∘C that for case 1 and case 2, respectively. Meanwhile, most of the respondents experienced calmness during sleeping and satisfied with their sleep in both cases. Sleep efficiency index (SEI) shows case 2 was higher rather than case 1. It seems the second adaptive cooling strategy might effective for reducing AC energy consumption by about 32% and increase 2% of SEI without affecting respondents’ thermal comfort.

The Use of Natural Stone as an Authentic Building Material for the Restoration of Historic Buildings in Order to Test Sustainable Refurbishment: Case Study

This study deals with the integrated process of conservation and restoration of architectural heritage and sustainability. The objective of the research was to define adequate methodologies for the structural restoration of historic buildings, their re-use, and sustainable refurbishment in accordance with modern requirements and conservation standards while maintaining the original visual character by using natural stone as an authentic building material. The main research method was the in-situ observation of the historic structures during the restoration and adaptive re-use, the analysis, and evaluation of the research findings regarding energy efficiency improvements and energy saving in the Haybarn complex within the monastery Hilandar, Mount Athos, Greece. Due to its cultural and natural values, Mount Athos has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The research included the damaged and abandoned agricultural structures that belong to the Haybarn complex and the analysis of the obtained results after the restoration had finished and the abandoned premises had been turned into guest rooms for the visitors of Hilandar monastery. The result section states the findings of the research arranged as recommendations for historic building restoration and re-use, emphasizing their new function in accordance with modern comfort requirements and environmental protection standards. The main contribution of this study is the analysis of the research findings and the possibilities of energy refurbishment of the restored historic buildings, through the use of natural stone as authentic local construction material, in accordance with energy efficiency measures and principles, conservation requirements and cultural heritage conservation standards.