The Importance of Internet Usage in Hotel Businesses: A Study on Small Hotels
Öz
This century is an important era in terms of accessing the
information, collecting it, saving it and transferring it to
the required units because of the rise in the competition
atmosphere. In this era the internet usage has increased,
internet settled into our homes and everywhere via our
mobile devices and accessing the information has become
easier. Thus, the use of internet has become an obligation in
the hotel business which provides abstract product. Small
and boutique hotels whose number has risen recently has a
big importance to meet the demands for the destinations. In
this study the internet use in the small hotel businesses
issue is emphasized. The study was carried out about the
small hotels in Silifke which is a touristic region in Mersin
Province, Turkey. First of all, the related literature was
reviewed and the questionnaire was prepared.The small
hotel business administrator were interviewed face to face
and they filled in the questionnaires. The obtained data was
assesed using statistics package program, the numeric and
percentage data was obtained and they were converted to
tables.Although it was obtained that most of the small
hotels use internet, it was confirmed that the
administrators do not have enough information about the
internet usage areas.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Ekonomi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
1 Mayıs 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
6 Ekim 2016
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 1