Guest Rooms Research Articles

호텔 봉사료 제도에 따른 선택권 박탈감과 불공정성 지각이 전환의도에 미치는 영향

The service charge system of most hotel enterprises in Korea does not have clear standards, and causes controversies as it requires improvement in terms of execution and distribution. This study referred to the preceding studies to suggest the deprivation feeling of right to choose and the unfairness perception as the two negative factors that the customers can perceive about the current service charge system in Korea, and clarified the impact of these factors on the switching intention that can be negative to the hotel enterprises. It also verified the perceived employees’ service attitude for more meaningful findings. For this purpose, it selected the domestic customers who have visited hotel guest rooms and restaurants in Korea within the last 6 months as the parent population and surveyed 292 of them through a professional research service agency from March 24, 2014 to March 28, 2014 for the analysis. As a result, it was found that both the deprivation feeling of right to choose and the unfairness perception have a significant positive impact on the switching intention and significantly modulate perceived employees’ service attitude.

Ireland on a Plate: Curating the 2011 State Banquet for Queen Elizabeth II

Ireland on a Plate: Curating the 2011 State Banquet for Queen Elizabeth II

Guest Room Energy Management System

ABSTRACTHotel guest room energy management (GREM) systems are widely used throughout the world and the United States. The market for GREM has especially increased in the state of Nevada where guest room occupancy schedules vary at a high rate. Guests often leave their air conditioning equipment running during their absence. The GREM system determines the physical presence of guests by detecting infrared body heat. When a guest has left a room for a specified period, the system takes control from the normal thermostat and resets the room's temperature to energy conserving levels. Thus, installation of GREM control systems has been shown to reduce unnecessary energy consumption in unoccupied guest rooms. DNV GL conducted a GREM study at two hotels and casinos in Las Vegas Valley utilizing the INNCOM product. The primary objective of this assessment is to compare the energy use of GREM technology with existing technology, a conventional thermostat control. The selected sites were categorized by NV Energy ser...

TRADITIONAL CULTURE ABAZA: BASED ON GRAPHIC SOURCES OF THE XIX CENTURY

This article contains historical and ethnographic сomment of two graphic objects of the XIX century, related to ethnic group Abaza "tapanta" from the village Dudarukovsky. Analysis of graphic sources allows you to experience the connection of traditional material and spiritual. Culture of Abaza with culture of other mountain people, get a clear idea of its basic elements. The pictures give an opportunity to highlight the typical and specific features: the design and material. For the manufacture of the dwelling, location of female and male parts of the house, guest rooms, outbuildings, traditional dress, wedding customs. In the interior the following elements are common to all people of the North Caucasus: hearth, decoration of the walls with weapons. Interior details of the master's house and kunatskaya.

테마호텔의 객실 디자인 특성에 관한 연구 - 2005년 이후 국내외 테마호텔 사례 분석을 중심으로 -

테마호텔의 객실 디자인 특성에 관한 연구 - 2005년 이후 국내외 테마호텔 사례 분석을 중심으로 -

Experimental and theoretical study on the effect of window films on building energy consumption

Solar control films are designed to absorb or reflect the incident solar radiation, in order to reduce solar transmission through window glass. In the present study, the glass surface temperatures were measured for selected solar window films on various applications, and compared to the cases of the same window glass types without solar window films. Dynamic simulation models are also developed with the aid of the building energy simulation program EnergyPlus. After experimental validations, the computer models are used to evaluate the energy saving potentials of the subject samples of solar window films as applied onto glazing of three different function rooms in Hong Kong, namely office, shopping mall and hotel guest room. The results show that the thermal performance of the film applications on clear glass is better than on tinted or laminated glass windows. Solar films have very good energy saving potential when applied to all three functional areas in commercial buildings, and the best results are found in office applications.

Understanding Customer Satisfaction With Budget Hotels Through Online Comments: Evidence From Home Inns in China

Increasingly, customers rely on online comments for information on hotels to make sound decisions on where to stay. The recently established budget hotel sector is developing rapidly in China, and these hotels currently comprise nearly 40% of all the hotel rooms in the country. This study explores the factors that lead to customer satisfactory or dissatisfactory accommodation experience with budget hotels in China. Data were gathered from nearly 3,000 online comments on Home Inns, the biggest budget hotel chain in China. The comments were initially categorized manually by three researchers on 200 randomly selected comments. NVivo 9 was used for the coding and the content analysis of the comments. We found that customers were mostly concerned with the guest rooms, location, and service quality of the hotels. The perceptions of the previous guests of Home Inns were further analyzed by sub-categorizing their comments. Contextual factors were found to be unique.

How to Walk on Water

How to Walk on Water Rachel Swearingen (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution St. Peter Walking on the Water, Alessandro Allori, 1590s, Uffizi Gallery [End Page 10] I’ll show you the backside of your soul. That’s what Arvel Wilkes told Nolan’s mother, Sigrid, the night of the attack. Nolan had found a manila envelope with a smeared carbon copy of the original police report inside. She had been just twenty-six when it happened, younger than Nolan now. The report didn’t note what his mother said in response to Wilkes, just that there were “minimal defensive marks on victim.” They had been living on the north side of Seattle at the time, his father away on a business trip, Nolan asleep in his crib. [End Page 11] He was home to pull his life together, staying in his mother’s guest room, trying to keep out of her way. She couldn’t fall asleep without the radio. She left her bedroom door ajar for her cat, and Nolan crept closer to listen. Was Princess Diana’s death a setup? What about JFK Jr.? We’re going to hear from a man who claims there is a secret profession of accident staging. Later in the hour, I’ll be opening the call lines. Do you believe in evil? What led you, or someone you know, to a moment of evil? “Too loud?” Sigrid said. She must have sensed Nolan standing outside the door. “I can turn it off.” “I thought you called me,” he said. She tuned in to the same station every night. Aliens. The supernatural. Government conspiracies. Time travel. It wasn’t like his mother to listen to such things. “I’m going to bed now,” he said. “I’ll make sure the doors are locked.” He went into the guest room and shut the door. His mother’s desk was there, her photo albums, her boxes of tax and financial records. He’d found the envelope, along with a recent letter from the Seattle Police Department, while rifling through the desk for her checkbook. Arvel Wilkes had died in prison. She hadn’t mentioned it. Nolan called his father in Pensacola, where it was three hours earlier, and told him he’d been hunting for information, that he’d found a medical report and knew Sigrid could never have another child. “Is that why you divorced?” he asked. “Is that why she never dated anyone?” His father still loved Sigrid. It hadn’t been his idea to separate, and Nolan suspected he’d finally left and remarried because there was no going back to the way it had been. “You always liked to pick at scabs,” his father said now. “Never could leave well enough alone. What kind of trouble you in this time?” “Dad, I’m worried about Mom. She’s always talking about shadow governments and UFOs and ghosts and shit like that. She’s losing it.” “She never says nothing to me about UFOs. I talked to her the other day. She’s worried about you. She said you just sit around on your ass all day. She thinks you’re depressed.” “So you and Mom didn’t split up because of what happened?” Nolan could hear his father rattle ice in a glass, looking for the perfect cube to chomp. “Your mother and I are OK,” he said, biting down. “We’re just different people, that’s all. She met someone she could talk to back then. She couldn’t talk to me.” “Who?” [End Page 12] “That was a long time ago. Don’t bring up Wilkes with her. You let that monster rot.” “How did the job search go today?” Sigrid asked. She filled a watering can and fussed over a plant on the table where Nolan was paging through a newspaper. Somehow the day had gotten away from him, and he still hadn’t showered or shaved. “Nothing yet,” Nolan said. “I’ll find something.” He had lived in towns all over Colorado and Wyoming. Over the past few years, he had worked as a bartender, a rental manager, a warehouse supervisor and a short...

The Role of Gender and Livelihood on Forming Traditional Houses in Two Regions of Iran

Gender is socio-cultural identity that is built, preserved and strengthened by communities. Various viewpoints about social phenomena associated with gender are differently expressed in different places and times. Therefore, relying on ideas of the people who live in different countries, we can be informed of reasons for forming different structures of houses. The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of gender components in shaping traditional houses in Iran. To this end, choosing 8 houses in the old context of ‘Yazd’ and ‘Rasht’, we investigate the influences of livelihood ways and gender on the shaping and spatial structures of the house. Using comparative analysis and case study method, we compare physical and spatial elements including entrance, guest room, living room and kitchen. The results suggest that expanding gender realms and space resolution in the traditional houses of Yazd are the result of men's livelihood and women's domestic work. But lack of gender boundaries and physical barriers in houses of Rasht are due to cooperative livelihood. Presented analyses show that climate, culture and livelihood ways influence on the gender construction. Therefore, the factors emanating from gender such as gender realms, spatial hierarchy and privacy provide identity for these houses.

Study on Energy Use Characteristics of Hotel Buildings in Shanghai

This paper presents statistical energy use characteristics of hotel buildings in Shanghai. Building information and energy consumption data had been collected by field survey of 45 star hotels. The results show that the hotels were mostly built after 1990s, and the area of guest room accounts for more than half of the gross floor area. The breakdown of energy use shows that electricity is the main energy source, which accounts for 75% of total energy consumption. The annual average energy use intensity (EUI) for 3-star, 4-star and 5-star hotels are 61.95 kgce/m2, 73.18 kgce/m2 and 86.64 kgce/m2 respectively by converting all consumed energy into equivalent coal. In addition, some other factors were also reviewed such as occupancy rate and hotel's class. Some suggestions are put forward to improve energy performance of hotel buildings.

한옥호텔의 배치 및 공간특성에 관한 사례조사

The purpose of this study is to analyze the design characteristics of Hanok hotel. This study was approached by using theoretical investigation and a field survey. The field survey analyzed the current situations by conducting the master plan layout, architecture and interior design of the Hanok hotel. The field survey was tested by examining four different Hanok hotels from February 2014 to July 2014. After all, the results were analyzed based on given categories. The results of this research can be summarized as following. First, the characteristic of the master plan layout in Hanok hotel was appeared as "ㄷ" and "ㅡ" shapes. Those layouts were based on the spatial and the functional aspects of Hanok hotel facilities. Second, three different structural methods such as the korean traditional wooden structure, concrete, and masonry method were used in Hanok hotel construction to deliver the traditional architecture aspects while considering the functionality and convenience of the building. Third, most of Hanok hotels had the limited furniture range. The consideration of using several types of traditional furniture in different rates of the guest rooms help to increase the service quality and customer's satisfaction. Fourth, there were no diversity of using materials and colors in Hanok hotels that only few of them were used to express the traditional look. Fifth, the local characteristics were found in several Hanok hotels. To reflect the local characteristics in Hanok hotel is to construct a suitable environment to fit in nature and also it is easily to convey the local culture to others.

Feeding the Communal Family: “Family Time” and the Division of Household Labor in Cohousing

Gathering around the dinner table is a strongly-held value in American culture (Kremer-Sadlik, Fatigante, and Fasulo, 2008) and many positive effects of have been documented in the literature (Davidson and Gauthier, 2010). At the same expectations about dinner can exacerbate the pressure on dual-career couples already in a bind (Hochschild, 1997), and add stress to their marriages as women, especially working mothers, are more likely to feel overwhelmed by and unappreciated for these labors (Spitze and Loscocco, 2000). Yet most families, with some variation based on structure and resources, mother's employment, and functioning, do make to eat together (Davidson and Gauthier, 2010). However, the quantity of spent at the dinner table has been in steady decline (Schor, 2005) despite its significance as a key activity for family time (Gutierrez, Price, and Arnould, 2008).The notion of is closely related to the concept of time, both of which have received increased attention in response to the extensive growth in labor force participation among middle-class mothers (DeVault 2000). This attention couples concern that parents are not spending enough with their children, with a romanticized vision of the past and an idealized image of the (Kremer-Sadlik et al, 2008) where are cast as positive experiences central to preservation (Price, 2008, p. 189). In addition, the cultural pressure to achieve idealized experiences of quality can add to stress (Kremer-Sadlik and Paugh, 2007) and the reality of dinner may more closely resemble a 6 o'clock crash (Larson and Richards, 1994), fraught with conflict and fatigue (Gutierrez et al, 2008). Through an examination of communal in cohousing, a form of intentional community, this article explores the tension between the notion of the dinner as and the opportunity for redistributing, and balancing by gender, mealtime household labor.Cohousing communities are resident-developed and managed cooperative neighborhoods where privately-owned (or less often, rented), self-sufficient household units are clustered around a with shared facilities including a dining room for meals and assorted other amenities such as a children's play area, teen room, laundry, exercise space, and/or guest rooms (McCamant and Durrett, 1994; Meltzer, 2005). They typically range in size from fifteen to forty household units. Cohousing, a Danish model, was introduced in the United States in 1988 and has grown rapidly. Today there are over 100 established (i.e. built and occupied) cohousing communities in the United States and more on the way with over 100 other groups working on new projects.[1]The common house is the heart of the community where members come together to dine, share childcare, socialize, and hold meetings. Each home is self-sufficient with a complete kitchen, but many evenings community dinners are available in the common house with residents taking turns at cooking and clean-up. Common dinners play a significant role in attracting people to cohousing. Cohousers cite both social (e.g. friendship, sense of community) and instrumental (e.g. reducing individual household labor, balancing the gendered division of household labor) functions of common as motivations for pursuing a cohousing lifestyle. This article will: 1) explore the extent to which these expectations regarding common are realized, 2) examine the related tension between community participation and in one cohousing community, and 3) analyze the extent to which communalizing helps redistribute and balance household labor by gender. Social and Instrumental Functions of Communal Life Above all, people live in cohousing because they want to live with others who are also intentionally choosing to live in community. …

Out at Sea

Out at Sea Pamela Schmid (bio) On May 5, 1929, my great-uncle Howard plunged into the choppy surf of Hermosa Beach in southern California. It was a Sunday afternoon, and the shore was littered with towels and umbrellas, families and picnic baskets. Seagulls wheeled and cried over bone-white sand, over coins of light that danced on the water. A wide concrete pier with tiled pavilions stretched one thousand feet into the ocean. It must have felt like heaven to a boy of sixteen, churning through that salty-cool water, feeling the waves’ silky spray pulse through his fingers and tickle the downy-soft hairs of his chest. The push and pull, the weightlessness. Fishy and rank and pure. Losing himself in it, not noticing the tug of the tide, his growing distance from shore. He is sepia-bathed inside a gilded oval frame, and I cannot take my eyes off him. He is four, maybe five, and he is lovely—a golden child. Consider the double-breasted jumpsuit (is it blue? red?) and the silky bow tied beneath his chin. Consider the upturned nose, the eyes’ impish gleam. His palms are relaxed, open, resting on knees, shockingly [End Page 91] white against dark, sumptuous velvet. An unruly lock of hair curls like a fishhook above his right eye. It indicates mischief uncorked, irrepressible boyness. His beauty sears me. He is the future’s gleaming promise. Howard, the boy, sits on the lap of his mother—Mamie, my great grandmother, whose index finger rests lightly on his hand. Perhaps she caresses it inadvertently, the primal need for skin to find skin. Her deep-set eyes are framed by plain wire glasses. She sits beside my great grandfather, George, who sports a blunt mustache and the bushy eyebrows of my father. He is a Methodist minister and looks the part. I can hear his stentorian voice blasting down the pews. Completing the set is Lowell, my grandfather, who is nine years older than Howard and looms behind the other three. His hair is parted down the middle, shorn high and close, bangs curlicued like the horns of a ram, a look that accentuates his long face and jug ears (also like my father’s). Shadows cover the left half of his face. His thin lips betray the merest hint of a smile. His three-piece suit appears to strangle him. Photographs trick us. They capture the leaf before it falls: the smooth, unfurrowed forehead, the thick and lustrous hair. They prop up the dead, pull their skin taut, dust their cheeks with rouge. They make us yearn to touch the untouchable, to say: If only you knew. The stiff formality and fancy clothes and quaintly curled mustaches—all just a ruse. We see past that, and see ourselves. I learn about Howard during a weeklong visit with my father’s sister. “You know that picture in the guest room, the one of Grandpa as a teenager?” I ask. “Who’s that cute little boy in the front?” I’m sitting on the couch, between my aunt and my father, while my eighteen-month-old son naps nearby. Sunlight bounces off the cathedral ceilings. A pair of giant sandhill cranes trot past the back window. My aunt feeds her elderly poodle a treat and shoots me a look of [End Page 92] surprise. “Oh,” she says. “That’s your great-uncle Howard. He’s the one who drowned.” For a second, I stop breathing. Then I turn to my father. “Grandpa had a brother who drowned?” I ask. Dad considers the question for a moment or two. “That’s true,” he finally says before turning back to his newspaper. I have been surrounded by ancestors for the past four nights, here in my aunt’s guestroom, amid the palm trees and impeccable, spongy lawns of southwestern Florida. Black and white strangers—all related to me—plaster nearly every inch of wall space. Their eyes follow me around the room. When I lie in bed at night, I imagine them humming secrets like grasshoppers. Among this jumble of forbearers, Howard fascinates me most. Those apple cheeks, those plump and immaculate hands—they...

EMERGING TRENDS IN HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM

The hospitality and tourism industry has changed more than a little since the first motel, in San Luis Obispo, California, was opened in 1925. (Its rooms went for $2.50 a night.) Today, there are more than four million guest rooms in the country, and tourists and businesspeople spend about $550 billion each year on travel in the United States As a vast and growing industry, hospitality and tourism provides more opportunities for ambitious educated and uneducated persons who enjoy working with people. The hospitality and tourism industry working in a more competitive environment. It is essential that those seeking careers as successful professionals develop a strong business foundation and customer service skills. There are few main themes are to be required to promote the hospitality and tourism industry such as international tourism planning; the development and operation of hotels; Europe and the Single Market; planning issues and techniques; service improvement; finance and performance; and the psychology of management. The purpose of this study is to identify, analyze, and noted the future trends that has been done tat now related to hospitality and tourism sector. This kind of study will be helpful to identify both the advancement and some gaps in this field, thus help to establish a more efficient, effective, and accountable tourism research to support practical work.

현대 호텔객실에 적용된 전통의 현대화 표현방법 및 특성에 관한 연구 -한, 중, 일 도심 특1급 호텔의 비교분석을 통하여-

Seoul is entering an era of 20 million tourists, which has been driven by the widespread adoption of five-day workweek and the ever-increasing foreign tourists seeking for personal experience of Korean culture. This is the right time in this sense to bring some changes into the modern hotel rooms, since they are the very front lines that the Korean traditions can be disseminated along. This study attempts to extract traditional expressive factors residing in guest rooms and to suggest the modernization methods applicable to Seoul five-star hotel rooms through an in-depth study on how the traditional factors can be expressed effectively in modern fashion. This study unfolds its attempt as follows: The factors that can express traditional aspects in guest rooms are extracted first, and the standard analytic tools are set up using the modernization method of traditional factors, such as reproduction, alteration and reinterpretation of original forms. Adopting those standard tools from the modernization method of traditional factors the guest rooms of hotels in Korea, China, and Japan are examined comparatively, and the patterns in expressing the traditional factors are analyzed for all sample hotels. Finally, based upon these we propose some guidelines and data necessary for the effective modernized representation of traditional factors, which can be applicable to domestic hotels.

Guests’ Reactions to In-Room Sustainability Initiatives

Subtle energy saving changes in guest rooms did not diminish satisfaction, based on a study of 192 guests at an independent four-star hotel. Two changes were tested, a television with three energy settings and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in place of the standard compact fluorescent lightings (CFLs). While overall satisfaction was not affected by these changes, some guests, notably those with high incomes, did react to the energy saving settings. Contrary to some studies, 45 percent of the guests agreed that they would pay a higher room rate to support sustainability programs. On balance, this study indicates that hotels can gain cost savings and improved sustainability by implementing judicious energy saving approaches without harming guest satisfaction. This article is based on a paper presented at the 2013 Quality in Service Conference (QUIS 13), in Karlstad, Sweden.

Measuring Hotel Guest Satisfaction by Using an Online Quality Management System

This study analyzes hotel guest satisfaction using an electronic guest feedback system based on web and Internet technologies. Data collected from a sample of 1,218 hotel guests who stayed at two midprice full-service hotels in Orlando, Florida during a 1-year period was used for this study. Structural equation modeling was employed to identify the underlying relationship between guest evaluation of hotel facilities and staff service on the one hand, and perceived value, satisfaction, and intent to revisit and recommend on the other. The results show the direct effects of guest evaluations of staff service quality, guest room quality, security and service problems on value, satisfaction, and intention to revisit and recommend. It is also noted that significant moderating effects affected the guest evaluations of the hotel facilities and staff service quality. Management implications include suggestions for enhancing guest satisfaction with hotel operations leveraging web-based technology. This study should help hotel management focus on those aspects of the guest experience that matter most for driving satisfaction ratings.

Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Untuk Pengadaan Fasilitas Hotel Menggunakan Metode TOPSIS

The development of hotel business to make consumers more critical to choose a hotel products and services. If the hotel facilities more complete, so interest of the consumer is higher to choose the hotel. This research study intend to build a decision support system for the procurement of hotel facilities with TOPSIS method. This method uses the six alternative form of the data; hotel rooms (guest room), karaoke, gift shop, a gym, spa and travel corner (travel tour information) and data of some criteria. This method was chosen because it is based on the best alternative concept, was not only has the shortest distance from the positive ideal solution, but also has the longest distance from the negative ideal solution. TOPSIS calculations systems have been done the comparison of final value using excell calculation. Calculations that used in this research study is simple and produces alternative hotel rooms (guest room) with t he highest ranking as the ideal solution. TOPSIS method facilitates decision-makers in choosing the best alternative for the procurement of hotel facilities. Keywords : Decision support system; Hotel facilities; TOPSIS

Editors’ Introduction

Editors’ Introduction Rita M. Gross and Terry C. Muck Returning to be guest editors of this journal for a short period of time, we are delighted to present such a rich 2014 issue. In April 2013, Union Theological Seminary in New York City welcomed a distinguished international group of scholars, theologians, and other commentators to a gathering of engaged Buddhists and Christian liberation theologians. Those of us who attended were invited for a conference that also celebrated the career and retirement of Paul Knitter, of the Union Seminary faculty and one of the great voices for Buddhist-Christian interchange in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. We were delighted when Paul took up a suggestion from Sallie King, the conference keynote speaker, that this journal publish some of the papers from that conference. Paul agreed and quickly expedited Sallie’s suggestion, clearing the way for this journal to publish the comments found in these pages. We are grateful to Sallie, Paul, and everyone else who made this a smooth and easy transition into our guest editorship. They made possible a wonderful issue. The conference itself, which Rita attended as one of the invited speakers, was a wonderful celebration of collegiality and friendship across continents, religions, generations, disciplines, and social concerns, as the table of contents for this issue will quickly demonstrate. Friendship and collegiality were enhanced by the fact that participants lived together in guest rooms at Union Seminary and ate together there, dining on a variety of ethnic cuisines. In addition to many distinguished speakers, only some of whom are represented in these pages, the event featured music, dance, liturgy, and meditation from a wide variety of religious and cultural traditions. The print medium of this journal cannot begin to capture all the richness provided by this conference. Nevertheless, we are delighted to bring some flavor of the conference to you through the papers selected for this issue of the journal. This conference also demonstrated what many would regard as a significant advance in what Buddhist-Christian interchange involves from standard fare in the earlier days of that encounter. Some will remember that this journal, founded by David Chappell in 1980, grew directly out of one of the first large English-language international gatherings dedicated to Buddhist-Christian interchange, which took place in Hawai’i and was also organized by David Chappell. That first issue of this journal published some papers from that early conference, including Rita’s. That paper was one of the very earliest statements on feminism and Buddhism, but papers dedicated to joint pursuit of solutions to large-scale social problems were much less [End Page vii] in evidence in those early years. The field has grown, such that subdisciplines within Buddhist-Christian interchange are now commonplace and no one is surprised that we can easily dedicate a whole issue of this journal simply to Engaged Buddhism and Christian liberation theology. We also take pride in the fact that both that very first issue and this issue, as well as many issues in between, contain articles and essays on gender and feminism. We take pride in this fact because even engaged Buddhists and Christian liberation theologians often forget that sexism in its many varieties, including heteronormativity, ranks very high among the causes of human misery. In addition, the conference and contributors to this issue took on issues of economic injustice, racism, and environmental degradation. Others spoke directly out of and about the experiences of those who suffer from those types of injustice. Theological and spiritual responses to those injustices are also presented. Conference organizer and newly minted PhD Kyeongil Jung and keynote speaker Sallie King present overviews of the conference itself and of interchanges between engaged Buddhists and Christian liberation theologians. Honoree Paul Knitter closed the conference with a moving tribute to his many friends in the worlds of engaged Buddhism and Christian liberation theology and an account of what he has learned from them over the many years we have all worked together. This set of conference papers is followed by a varied collection of book reviews and the News and Views section, thanks to Sid Brown, book review editor, and Jonathan Seitz...

水俣市湯の鶴温泉における自炊宿の平面構成

In Yunotsuru spa there are four Japanese inns with self-cooking facilities, but only one of them does business still now. In the case of these Japanese inns, workers live in it. Although the space of visitors and workers is separated from bordering on the cooking space, the rooms equipped with water supply are shared in some cases. And in the habitation space, a kitchen is located in the lower-part-of-river side. In addition, the guest room faces the road through the open corridor. According to downsizing and removal of self-cooking facilities, rooms by common use also decreased.