Análisis de factibilidad para instalar un hotel en la ciudad de Loja

La presente investigación muestra el estudio realizado a fin de determinar si sería factible instalar un hotel en la ciudad de Loja, Ecuador, con el propósito de brindar un servicio distintivo y de calidad al consumidor nacional y extranjero. En este sentido, primero se realizó el análisis del entorno que permitió tener una visión más amplia del país desde el punto de vista político, económico, social entre otros y también específicamente de la ciudad de Loja. Asimismo se realizó un estudio general de las preferencias del visitante Peruano, como posible cliente a tener en cuenta. Por otro lado se realizó un estudio de viabilidad comercial que permitió conocer la competencia existente por categorías y sus características respectivas, así como los clientes de la actual infraestructura hotelera. En tercer lugar, se realizó el análisis de viabilidad técnica que permitió conocer el requerimiento de tecnología necesaria a considerar, se efectuó un estudio de localización geográfica y construcción; y asimismo se mencionaron los servicios que se brindarían. Finalmente se efectuó un estudio de viabilidad financiera con lo cual se pudo conocer la inversión total requerida, el tipo de financiamiento, los ingresos y gastos que se tendrían anualmente y la utilidad que se tendría una vez que se haya puesto en marcha el Hostal Sol y Luna.

Análisis y evaluación de los modelos de gestión tercerizado y por nómina aplicados a la gestión del departamento de mantenimiento en la hotelería. Caso: Grand Hotel Mercure Alameda Quito

En nuestro proyecto de tesis se describen y analizan, el modelo de gestión por nómina del Departamento de Mantenimiento del Grand Hotel Mercure Alameda Quito y el modelo de gestión tercerizado sugerido por el Grupo ACCOR. En los primeros capítulos realizamos una descripción de la industria turística en Brasil y Ecuador debido a que el modelo de gestión tercerizado es utilizado con gran éxito por el Grupo ACCOR en Brasil, pero en Ecuador es utilizado el modelo de gestión por nómina. Decidimos realizar una encuesta de investigación que nos permita conocer con certeza, si el departamento de mantenimiento cumplía con los parámetros de calidad, eficiencia y seguridad en la prestación de sus servicios. Por lo tanto, la investigación fue dirigida hacia los colaboradores de los distintos departamentos que conforman el hotel. Los resultados obtenidos fueron segmentados por departamentos para puntualizar el análisis. En los capítulos finales realizamos la comparación entre el modelo de gestión tercerizado y el modelo de gestión por nómina. Para realizar esta comparación utilizamos tres parámetros: Tiempo de respuesta; Costos de prestación de servicios; Fiabilidad de los activos. Finalmente realizamos las conclusiones y recomendaciones a las que llegamos luego de nuestro proceso de investigación.

The heliospheric magnetic field over the Hale cycle

The concept that open magnetic flux of the Sun (rooted with one and only one footpoint at the Sun) is a conserved quantity is taking root in the heliospheric community. Observations show that the Sun's open magnetic flux returns to the baseline from one solar minimum to the next. The temporary enhancement in the 1 AU heliospheric magnetic flux near solar maximum can be accounted for by the temporary creation of closed magnetic flux (with two footpoints at the Sun) during the ejection of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which are more frequent near solar maximum. As a part of the International Heliophysical Year activities, this paper reviews two recently discussed consequences of open flux conservation: the reversal of open magnetic flux over the solar cycle driven by Coronal Mass Ejections and the impacts of open flux conservation on the global structure of the heliospheric magnetic field. These studies demonstrate the inherent linkages between coronal mass ejections, footpoint motions back at the Sun, and the global structure and evolution of the heliospheric magnetic field.

Role of coronal mass ejections in the heliospheric Hale cycle

The 11-year solar cycle variation in the heliospheric magnetic field strength can be explained by the temporary buildup of closed flux released by coronal mass ejections (CMEs). If this explanation is correct, and the total open magnetic flux is conserved, then the interplanetary-CME closed flux must eventually open via reconnection with open flux close to the Sun. In this case each CME will move the reconnected open flux by at least the CME footpoint separation distance. Since the polarity of CME footpoints tends to follow a pattern similar to the Hale cycle of sunspot polarity, repeated CME eruption and subsequent reconnection will naturally result in latitudinal transport of open solar flux. We demonstrate how this process can reverse the coronal and heliospheric fields, and we calculate that the amount of flux involved is sufficient to accomplish the reversal within the 11 years of the solar cycle.

The relationships of age and length of service with job satisfaction: an examination of hotel employees in Thailand

Earlier studies suggest age is positively associated with job satisfaction, while others use length of service, or tenure, as a predictor of job satisfaction levels. This article examines whether age and tenure are individual determinants of satisfaction, or whether there is an interaction between the two. The results indicate that employee age is not significantly associated with overall job satisfaction level, but that tenure is. There is also significant relationship between tenure and facets of satisfaction (job, pay and fringe benefits), but the effect of tenure on satisfaction is significantly modified by age.

The 22-Year Hale Cycle in cosmic ray flux: evidence for direct heliospheric modulation

The ability to predict times of greater galactic cosmic ray (GCR) fluxes is important for reducing the hazards caused by these particles to satellite communications, aviation, or astronauts. The 11-year solar-cycle variation in cosmic rays is highly correlated with the strength of the heliospheric magnetic field. Differences in GCR flux during alternate solar cycles yield a 22-year cycle, known as the Hale Cycle, which is thought to be due to different particle drift patterns when the northern solar pole has predominantly positive (denoted as qA>0 cycle) or negative (qA<0) polarities. This results in the onset of the peak cosmic-ray flux at Earth occurring earlier during qA>0 cycles than for qA<0 cycles, which in turn causes the peak to be more dome-shaped for qA>0 and more sharply peaked for qA<0. In this study, we demonstrate that properties of the large-scale heliospheric magnetic field are different during the declining phase of the qA<0 and qA>0 solar cycles, when the difference in GCR flux is most apparent. This suggests that particle drifts may not be the sole mechanism responsible for the Hale Cycle in GCR flux at Earth. However, we also demonstrate that these polarity-dependent heliospheric differences are evident during the space-age but are much less clear in earlier data: using geomagnetic reconstructions, we show that for the period of 1905 - 1965, alternate polarities do not give as significant a difference during the declining phase of the solar cycle. Thus we suggest that the 22-year cycle in cosmic-ray flux is at least partly the result of direct modulation by the heliospheric magnetic field and that this effect may be primarily limited to the grand solar maximum of the space-age.

Do online hotel rating schemes influence booking behaviours?

Travelers’ hotel booking behaviors increasingly depend on peers' opinions and online ratings. This study investigates the effects of online hotel ratings on travelers' attitudes toward the hotel and booking intentions, using a 2 × 2 experimental research design. The results suggest that online rating lists are more useful and credible when published by well-known online travel communities (e.g., TripAdvisor). More favorable attitudes toward a hotel and higher booking intentions emerge when the hotel appears in best hotels lists. Finally, for the entries on best hotels lists, better attitudes and higher booking intentions result if the list is published on a well-known online travel community (Tripadvisor), whereas for entries on a worst hotel list, attitudes and booking intentions decrease even further if the list appears on TripAdvisor.

The heliospheric Hale cycle over the last 300 years and its implications for a “lost” late 18th century solar cycle

A Hale cycle, one complete magnetic cycle of the Sun, spans two complete Schwabe cycles (also referred to as sunspot and, more generally, solar cycles). The approximately 22-year Hale cycle is seen in magnetic polarities of both sunspots and polar fields, as well as in the intensity of galactic cosmic rays reaching Earth, with odd- and even-numbered solar cycles displaying qualitatively different waveforms. Correct numbering of solar cycles also underpins empirical cycle-to-cycle relations which are used as first-order tests of stellar dynamo models. There has been much debate about whether the unusually long solar cycle 4 (SC4), spanning- 1784–1799, was actually two shorter solar cycles combined as a result of poor data coverage in the original Wolf sunspot number record. Indeed, the group sunspot number does show a small increase around 1794–1799 and there is evidence of an increase in the mean latitude of sunspots at this time, suggesting the existence of a cycle ‘‘4b’’. In this study, we use cosmogenic radionuclide data and associated reconstructions of the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) to show that the Hale cycle has persisted over the last 300 years and that data prior to 1800 are more consistent with cycle 4 being a single long cycle (the ‘‘no SC4b’’ scenario). We also investigate the effect of cycle 4b on the HMF using an open solar flux (OSF) continuity model, in which the OSF source term is related to sunspot number and the OSF loss term is determined by the heliospheric current sheet tilt, assumed to be a simple function of solar cycle phase. The results are surprising; Without SC4b, the HMF shows two distinct peaks in the 1784–1799 interval, while the addition of SC4b removes the secondary peak, as the OSF loss term acts in opposition to the later rise in sunspot number. The timing and magnitude of the main SC4 HMF peak is also significantly changed by the addition of SC4b. These results are compared with the cosmogenic isotope reconstructions of HMF and historical aurora records. These data marginally favour the existence of SC4b (the ‘‘SC4b’’ scenario), though the result is less certain than that based on the persistence of the Hale cycle. Thus while the current uncertainties in the observations preclude any definitive conclusions, the data favour the ‘‘no SC4b’’ scenario. Future improvements to cosmogenic isotope reconstructions of the HMF, through either improved modelling or additional ice cores from well-separated geographic locations, may enable questions of the existence of SC4b and the phase of Hale cycle prior to the Maunder minimum to be settled conclusively.

Do online hotel rating schemes influence booking behaviors?

Travelers’ hotel booking behaviors increasingly depend on peers' opinions and online ratings. This study investigates the effects of online hotel ratings on travelers' attitudes toward the hotel and booking intentions, using a 2 × 2 experimental research design. The results suggest that online rating lists are more useful and credible when published by well-known online travel communities (e.g., TripAdvisor). More favorable attitudes toward a hotel and higher booking intentions emerge when the hotel appears in best hotels lists. Finally, for the entries on best hotels lists, better attitudes and higher booking intentions result if the list is published on a well-known online travel community (Tripadvisor), whereas for entries on a worst hotel list, attitudes and booking intentions decrease even further if the list appears on TripAdvisor.

Analysis of total visual and CCD V-broadband observations of Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): 1995-2001

We developed a general method for determination of water production rates from groundbased visual observations and applied it to Comet Hale-Bopp. Our main objective is to extend the method to include total visual magnitude observations obtained with CCD detector and V filter in the analysis of total visual magnitudes. We compare the CCD V-broadband careful observations of Liller [Liller, W. Pre-perihelion CCD photometry of Comet 1995 01 (Hale-Bopp). Planet. Space Sci. 45, 1505-1513, 1997; Liller, W. CCD photometry of Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): 1995-2000. Int. Comet Quart. 23(3), 93-97, 2001] with the total visual magnitude observations from experienced international observers found in the International Comet Quarterly (ICQ) archive. A data set of similar to 400 CCD observations covering about the same 6 years time span of the similar to 12,000 ICQ selected total visual magnitude observations were used in the analysis. A least-square method applied to the water production rates, yields power laws as a function of the heliocentric distances for the pre- and post-perihelion phases. The average dimension of the nucleus as well as its effective active area is determined and compared with values published in the literature. (C) 2009 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Hotel Dall'Onder uma empresa sociotélica

Nesta dissertação procura-se demonstrar que os conceitos de empresas visionárias, de Collins e Porras (2000), e de empresas missionárias, de Mintzberg (2001), podem ser aplicados para entender o comportamento do Hotel Dall’Onder. Foi aplicada a metodologia do estudo exploratório de caso único, por ser um caso revelador e por representar um teste local de uma teoria significativa. A coleta de informações em vários documentos publicados pela imprensa, em livros, artigos e reportagens, além do que se pôde obter nas entrevistas de profundidade com pessoas representativas do empresariado, com micro-empresários, com colaboradores da empresa e com seus acionistas e diretores, representaram, neste, trabalho “provas testemunhais”, não sendo, assim, necessária qualquer análise estatística qualitativa ou quantitativa. A história da colonização italiana no Rio Grande do Sul aportou elementos para o melhor entendimento da formação da cultura do “colono”. O meio ambiente, embora adverso, facilitou a “acumulação primitiva” e forçou a procura de novos mercados. Foram analisados a missão, a ideologia e o comportamento histórico e presente do Hotel Dall’Onder, suas semelhanças e diferenças com os conceitos de Mintzberg (2001) e Collins e Porras (2000) e sua aderência a princípios éticos e de respeito social e ambiental, considerando a sua inserção nos projetos administrados pela Atuaserra e pelo projeto que ele próprio criou: Caminhos de Pedra. As conclusões são de que o Hotel Dall’Onder supera as exigências de Collins e Porras (op. cit.) e Mintzberg (op. cit.), podendo ser classificada como uma empresa visionário e missionária plus, pois adota os princípios éticos de Abela (op. cit) e res peita o meio ambiente, na linha do Sistema de Produto Inteligente de Blue e outros. Além disso, aplicou intuitivamente as bases teóricas do marketing social como instrumento de transformação social, visando a melhoria de vida das pessoas envolvidas, e a implantação de um novo modo de agir, criando o turismo cultural, apoiado na arquitetura, na gastronomia, na vitivinicultura, na agroindústria caseira, nos costumes e nas idiossincrasias, sem utilizar nenhum mecanismo de propaganda, difusão ou uso de mídia paga. Por isso se propõe sua qualificação como empresa sociotélica, ou seja, voltada para uma missão externa a si própria e de profundo cunho social. Apresenta diferenciais enormes: a distribuição de 10% do faturamento bruto, todos os meses, para todos os colaboradores; o estímulo ao surgimento de concorrentes em seu próprio ramo de negócios; o investimento, o apoio e a criação de atrativos turísticos sem mercado cativo e o investimento maciço no desenvolvimento do turismo regional, mesmo em prejuízo dos investimentos que lhe dariam maior escala e melhor condição competitiva, e isso por acreditar na máxima em dialeto vêneto dos colonos: Quanto pi baletere, tanto pi tordi (Quanto mais frutas, mais pássaros).

A iluminação natural em hotelaria de lazer : estudo de caso de um hotel hidrotermal no Paraná

A busca da solução ideal entre os fenômenos naturais para conforto na habitação de um modo geral e na hotelaria de lazer de forma especifica, constitui um desafio para profissionais e proprietários desse tipo de edificações. As variáveis e condicionantes da região de localização do prédio e o domínio no assunto, tem levado alguns profissionais da área a acreditar que podem alterar o espaço em que o homem vive modificando o comportamento do meio (Enarch, 1983). Estudos específicos na área de conforto ambiental mostram, que a utilização correta dos meios em uso na aplicação da energia disponível e que a correta implantação da obra no sitio podem reduzir consideravelmente o consumo energético, proporcionando o necessário conforto e bem estar ao usuário.O Estudo que aqui é apresentado se propôs de forma sucinta, a traçar um rápido panorama da historia da hotelaria de lazer, desde tempos antigos, com o inicio das primeiras jornadas romanas, até os dias de hoje, procurando identificar quais os critérios adotados para aproveitamento de iluminação e ventilação natural na arquitetura de hotéis de lazer Na seqüência situou-se a história da hotelaria de lazer no Brasil. No terceiro capitulo foram abordados, alguns exemplos significativos da arquitetura brasileira na década de 50, que influenciaram a primeira manifestação da arquitetura de hotel voltado ao bem estar, no Paraná. No quarto capitulo é apresentada a primeira e discreta participação do exemplo paranaense, com a adoção de alguns aspectos, no que se refere ao aproveitamento natural da iluminação e ventilação natural.O estudo de caso, finalmente buscou encontrar traços referenciais, do hotel tomado como objeto da pesquisa, procurando identificar, os critérios adotados quando presentes, para redução de consumo de energia e para conforto ambiental na hotelaria de lazer apresentada.

A narratological analysis of D. M. Thoma`s: the white hotel (1981)

“A Narratological Analysis of D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel (1981)” originated within a seminar on British Postmodernist Literature during the first Master’s Degree in “British and North-American Culture and Literature” (2001-04) at the Universidade da Madeira set up by the Department of English and German Studies. This dissertation seeks to present a narratological analysis of Thomas’s novel. The White Hotel stands as a paradigmatic example of the kind of literature that has dominated the British literary scene in the past three decades, commonly referred to as postmodernist fiction, owing to its formal craftsmanship (multiplicity of narrative voices and perspectives, mixing of differing genres and text types, inclusion of embedded narratives) alongside the handling of what are deemed as postmodernist topoi (the distinction between truth and lies, history and fantasy, fact and fiction, the questioning of the nature of aesthetic representation, the role the author and the reader hold in the narrative process, the instability of the linguistic sign, the notion of originality and the moral responsibility the author has towards his/her work), The narratological approach carried out in this research reveals that Thomas’s text constitutes an aesthetic endeavour to challenge the teleological drive that is inherent in any narrative, i. e., the inevitable progression towards a reassuring end. Hence, the subversion of narrative telling, which is a recurrent feature in Thomas’s remaining literary output, mirrors the contemporary distrust in totalising, hierarchised and allencompassing narratives. In its handling of historical events, namely of the Holocaust, The White Hotel invites us to reassess the most profound beliefs we were taught to take for granted: progress, reality and truth. In their place the novel proposes a more flexible conception of both the world and art, especially of literary fiction. In other terms, the world appears as a brutal chaotic place the subject is forced to adjust to. Accordingly, the literary work is deemed hybrid, fragmented and open. So as to put forth the above-mentioned issues, this research work is structured in three main chapters. The initial chapter – “What is Postmodernism?” – advances a scrutiny not only of the seminal but also of more recent studies on postmodernist literary criticism. Following this, in Chapter II – “Postmodernist British Fiction” – a brief overview of postmodernist British fiction is carried out, focusing on the fictional works that, in my opinion, are fundamental for the periodising of British postmodernism. In addition, I felt the need to include a section – “D. M. Thomas as a Postmodernist Novelist” – in which the author’s remaining literary output is briefly examined. Finally, Chapter III – “A Narratological Analysis of The White Hotel��� – proposes a narratological analysis of the novel according to the particular Genettian analytical model. To conclude, my dissertation constitutes an approach to D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel as a text whose very existence is substantiated in the foregrounding of the contingency of all discourses, meeting the postmodernist precepts of openness and subversion of any narrative that claims to be true, globalising and all-inclusive.

Cultura organizacional e comprometimento dos funcionários do Soleil Suíte Hotel

This study examines the relationship of the types of organizational culture perceived in a business hotel with the nature of the link between individual and organization. This linkage between commitment and organizational culture has been little explored, both national and international, requiring more studies. Thus, the survey was conducted in Soleil Suite Hotel, located on the beach of Ponta Negra, city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. The independent variable of the proposed model was represented by the types of organizational culture, while the dependent variable was represented by the four dimensions of commitment. It was used in addition to the correspondence analysis, the arithmetic mean, the Pearson s correlation and the simple regression analysis. The results indicated the existence of relationship of the types of organizational culture with the kind of commitment shown by the officials, where the cultures of Group and Innovative, capable of generating an environment dedicated to the work as a team, the development and professional growth of the employees, as well as the creativity and individual freedom of each one to try new things, encourage the dominance of the dimensions Affective, Affiliative and Normative of the tie person-organization