Sustainability challenges and opportunities arising from the owner-operator split in hotels

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 35-42

  Melissen, Frans ^a   van Ginneken, Rob ^a   Wood, Roy C ^a,b  

^a NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Hotel management contracts; Owner operator split; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955063221     PISSN: 02784319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2016.01.005     Document Type: Article

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