This paper reports on a study about applying regression techniques to identify the determinants and functional forms of tourism hotel expenditure in Hong Kong. Annual time series data from 1983 to 1997 of average room rate, the number of visitor arrivals, the service price index, and hotel...

Purpose – This study sets out to examine the potential curvilinear relationship between capital intensity and firm value for the US hospitality industry, specifically including publicly traded US hotels and restaurants, during the period 1990‐2008. Design/methodology/approach – This study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effects of onsite restaurant business volume on slot machine gaming volume at a Midwestern racino property. The results provide management with critical estimates for use in determining the overall value of the restaurant space....

Purpose Attributes of a destination do not only have a positive impact on a person’s selection of the travel destination but also influence the level of tourist satisfaction. In spite of this, the destination attributes related to Muslim tourism are yet to be explored. Moreover, each attribute...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify econometrically the determinants of wine consumption of US consumers. Design/methodology/approach – In empirically identifying driving forces of wine consumption, we used 122 survey responses from Northern California consumers. Findings –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a data system to assess failure probability in small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) reorganization. Design/methodology/approach – The data system is based on information from 83 reorganized Finnish SMEs. Information is divided into four...

In her recent study Bobbitt-Zeher (2007) takes on the important task of identifying the contribution of educational factors relative to non-educational factors in the making of the gender income gap among the college-educated and finds that “family formation has virtually no effect on the...

This paper attempts to study the impact of pre-specified set of macroeconomic factors on firm's stock returns for nine non-financial sectors listed in Karachi Stock Exchange. The macroeconomic factors included are consumer price index, industrial production index, market returns, risk free...

The study is conducted to assess the impact of burnout on performance of the employees working in sales departments of banking industry in Pakistan. Data was collected from 322 sales officers working in banks. Regression analysis was used to assess the impact of burnout on performance and...