Lodging Business Research Articles

Introduction to the hospitality industry: By Nathan Kalt. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. (4300 W. 62nd Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206, USA), ISBN 0-672-96086-9, 1971, 158 pp. (hard cover) $11.50

Part 1. Perspectives on careers in hospitality 1 Chapter 1. The hospitality industry and you 3 Chapter 2. Forces affecting growth and change in the hospitality industry 33 Part 2. Food service 61 Chapter 3. The restaurant business 63 Chapter 4. Restaurant operations 103 Chapter 5. Restaurant industry organization : chain, independent, or franchise? 127 Chapter 6. Competitive forces in food service 159 Chapter 7. Issues facing food service 183 Chapter 8. On-site food service 213 Chapter 9. Lodging : meeting guest needs 257 Chapter 10. Hotel and lodging operations 293 Chapter 11. Forces shaping the hotel business 333 Chapter 12. Competition in the lodging business 367 Part 4. Travel and tourism 405 Chapter 13. Tourism: Front and center 407 Chapter 14. Destinations: Tourism generators 437 Part 5. Hospitality as a service industry 483 Chapter 15. The role of service in the hospitality industry 485

Estimating the Market Potential of a Floating Population

2 Most reliable are estimates of tourist days where governmental agencies are able to control entrance and exit. See the reports of the Bahama Development Board on Tourist Travel; Hawaii Visitors Bureau, Impact of Visitor Dollars in Hawaii, Honolulu, 1953. Also Frances P. Sasscer, One Billion Travel Dollars Go Abroad, Survey of Current Business, June, 1953, pages 9-11, a review of U. S. travel abroad. Regular road checks of the state road departments provide data on the movement of motoring visitors in-and-out of the states such as California, New Mexico and Washington. See: Selling Climate at a Profit, The All-Year Round Club of Southern California, Los Angeles, and other publications of the same organization. New Mexico State Tourist Bureau Annual Report, 1950. 3 Most comprehensive is the New England Vacation Lodging Business Index of the Federal Bank of Boston (monthly proc.). Occupancy rates of resort hotels are included in the annual surveys of hotel operations by the accounting firm of Horwarth and Horwarth (New York, N. Y.).