Center for Hospitality Research
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Report: Leveraging bike-share systems to improve guest experiences and attract tourists
Elena Belavina and Ashish Kabra offer guidance to hotels on choosing a bike-share for guests and how cities can best design and run tourist-friendly systems.
A fresh approach to helping the planet: Elena Belavina takes on food waste
SHA associate professor Elena Belavina is finding strategies to help grocery suppliers, households, and restaurants reduce food waste.
Gradual hotel slowdown: Has the party ended?
Cornell Real Estate Market Indices: Crocker Liu and co-authors report on hotels’ regional, price, and financial performance in Q2 2019.
Equipment purchases: Putting a number on it
Mao and Moulton discuss their spreadsheet-based application that can be used to quickly compare the economic value of various equipment alternatives.
2018 CHR roundtable highlights hospitality industry sustainability strategies
CHR roundtable participants discuss the results of owner, operator, and brand collaboration to improve the hotel industry’s sustainability strategies.
Center for Hospitality Research roundtable promotes hospitality sustainability
As the hospitality industry moves ahead in finding ways to document its many sustainability initiatives, participants in the 2012 Cornell Sustainability Roundtable addressed current issues in reporting, benchmarking, the supply chain, and customer sustainability perceptions, as well as innovations in green operations. This year’s roundtable also included a student sustainability competition. As the hospitality industry […]
Amy Yao ’13 Wins WX Scholarship
New York Women Executives in Real Estate, WX, has named Amy Yao ’13 as a winner of one of its WX Scholarships for 2013. WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate is an invitation-only association of executive-level women actively engaged in the commercial real estate industry in New York. Yao was honored for such […]
Inaugural CREF Webcast Highlights Realities of Asian Real Estate Investment
The first in a series of CREF webcasts focused on the current status of real estate investment in Asia, including methods for investing, the status of capital markets, and how to deal with political instability. The webcast, “Real Estate Practices in Asia: A Primer,” is available on demand. It features two Asian investment experts: Michael […]