Description: This book goes beyond revenue management topics and presents a broad range of topics in management science applications as they relate to hospitality and tourism cases. It covers data analytics, e-commerce and technology, revenue and yield management, optimization methods, resource allocation, goal programming, dynamic programming, Markov chain
Review Quotes:
"Timely and valuable . . . Focusing on management science applications in hospitality and tourism systems, the book provides a blend of analysis that draws from both theory and evidence-based perspectives. [It] contributes to the advancement of understanding of the importance on data analysis, interpretation, and information generation for improved management decision-making in hospitality and tourism. . . The compilation of topics discussed represent important contributions from several well-established and high-profile scholars that offer interesting insights into management science. . . . The book's strength lies in the fact that it draws not only from the contributors' expertise on the applications of management science in the hospitality and tourism field but also from their diverse geographic backgrounds . . . A valuable contribution to students and researchers of hospitality and tourism as well as practitioners of the field who wish to advance their knowledge of management science applications and their associated implications within the hospitality and tourism setting."
--Tourism Analysis, review by Anna Farmaki, Cyprus University of Technology Limassol, Cyprus