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¶ … American Hotel & Lodging Association - AH&LA." American Hotel & Lodging Association - AH&LA. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2013. .
I have used this association's statistics for 2013, stating that there are 52,529 hotels in the U.S. There is some background information on the industry.
Capizzi, Michael and Ferguson, Rick "Loyalty Trends for the twenty-first century" Journal of Consumer Marketing. Vol. 22 (2) 72-80. 2005.
This paper discusses the current trends in loyalty marketing. Ubiquity is found to be important; imagination is more powerful than technology as trends go, because technology is a baseline thing that everybody must have. Customer analytics are becoming bigger as companies amass larger data sets.
Charania, Nazia "Hospitality Loyalty Program Effectiveness Evaluation Rubric" University of Nevada, Las Vegas
This literature examines many types of loyalty program strategies. Many programs have lowered reward thresholds and increased program offerings. It also examines that almost all hotels offer similar types of rewards therefor the costumer doesn't stay loyal to one brand.
Enz, Cathy A., Linda Canina, and Daniel Palacios-Marques. "The Relationship between New Venture Entry Mode and Firm Performance." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal Vol. 9 (2)...
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The basis of this research study is a comparison of hotels entering the United Kingdom hotel and hospitality market between the years of 2006 to 2010. The study found that a branded, franchised business led to greater levels of financial performance. The franchise model was also responsible for a faster ramp of revenues in the first six months of operation and also led to a higher level of operational efficiency. What is interesting about this study is that the franchise value lasted just six months and after that, the company had comparable performance to independent hotels. The conclusion of the researchers is that brand affiliation reduces the initial risk of launching a new hotel yet over the long-term doesn't deliver a sustained competitive advantage.
Freed, Jason "Operators: Loyalty Benefits Trump Costs" Hotel and Motel Management 5 Aug 2010. Web. 2 December 2013.
Loyalty programs vary widely in their outcomes, ranging from 2% to 65% at independent hotels. Most owners are "overwhelmingly satisfied with the programs." Loyalty programs also have a cost associated with them, such as the loyalty fund, which is a pool of funds around 5% that is used to reimburse members for redemptions. However, guest profiling can be so valuable that some employees are incentivized upwards of $75-$100 for converting guests to the…
A GDS is a global distribution system. What the article discusses is that there a marketing channel whereby travel agents, including those online, are better able to access the inventory of independent hotels with a GDS. The use of GDSs is something that streamlines the booking process, so is a key emerging technology trend but also a major business driver in the hotel industry. Independents accessing this channel levels the competitive playing field.
Marzheuser-Wood, Babette. "Research into European hotel market shows number of franchises is overestimated." Travel Law Quarterly (n.d.): 324-325.
The research found that in 2012,
Bob Dylan Annotated Bib Honneth, Axel. "Liberty's Entanglements: Bob Dylan and His Era." Philosophy Social Criticism. Sage Publications. 36:77. 2010. 777-783. Print. This article acts as a panegyric to Bob Dylan, describing him as representing "a hardly imaginable synthesis, combining the longings of a social romantic, the pride and arrogance of an individualist outsider, the derision of a satirist and the bitterness of an apocalyptic prophet" (777). Honneth then goes on to describe
Chapter 3 stresses the importance both fundamentally and ethically of representing information truthfully and honestly through visual and experiential means that are meaningful to the learner and respect the fact that the individual mind is rather limited and therefore needs human centered externals to help it learn and retain information. Chapter 4 stresses the importance of individuality in the development of technologies that teach and interact with people. The
Healing Touch Annotated Bib Bardia, A., et.al. (2006). Efficacy of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies in Relieving Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 24 (34): 457-64. Anecdotal evidence abounds regarding the use of complementary and alternative medicine therapies when dealing with issues of pain. One of the clear issues is that there is a lack of rigorous and well-developed scholarly literature on the subject. In this study, 18 trials
Dental Amalgam: Annotated Bibliography Zahra Wali Hol, P.J., Vamnes, J.S., Gjerdet, N.R., Eide, R., & Isrenn, R. (2001). Dental amalgam and selenium in blood. Environmental Research, 87(3), 141-146. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/enrs.2001.4308 It has been surmised that Selenium (Se) can protect against mercury (Hg) toxicity in humans thanks to the Hg-Se complex linked to selenoprotein P. In blood. The study in this peer-reviewed scientific journal measured Se concentrations in persons with health problems due to dental
Lilienfeld, S. O., Waldman, I. D., Landfield, K., Watts, A. L., Rubenzer, S., & Faschingbauer, T. R. (2012). Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(3), 489-505 The main gist of this journal article is that there is a growing assessment that traits commonly associated with psychopathic personalities and tendencies are not "maladaptive" in all instances.
Monger's review will help me analyze Pan's Labyrinth from the perspective of music and sound. It will help me show how Pan's Labyrinth would be a very different movie, were it not for the director's skillful use of Navarette's music. Newitz, Annalee. "Pan's Labyrinth - Can Fantasies Rescue Us from Fascism?" Wired Blog Network. 7 February 2007 Newitz's politically motivated analysis of Pan's Labyrinth asks a provoking question: Can fantasy serve as a