Leveraging Bike-Share Systems to Improve Guest Experiences and Attract Tourists

Bike-share systems have become a popular method for traveling within a city, and they are rapidly growing in many cities around the world, including New York, Paris, and Shanghai. This rapid growth allows tourists to explore a city on their own, using a communal bike, giving them an essential new way to discover the city. As a result, access to a bike-share system is becoming a big part of a tourist’s experience of a city and an essential hotel amenity. In this paper, we provide (1) guidance to hotels on the choice between offering guests an in-house bike-share system and supporting their use of a city-run bike-share system, and (2) prescriptions for cities on how to best design and run tourist-friendly bike-share systems

LEGAL ASPECT OF ETYMOLOGY OF THE CONCEPT «HUMAN DIGNITY»

This research and analysis work is focused on consideration of semantic characteristics of the normative content of the concept of «human dignity», according to means of consideration of its etymological value used in the modern Russian language and its historical development. Each historical epoch is characterized by its own type of personality with unique qualitative level of development of self-esteem defined by the prevailing in the society relations of production. The complex of non-material benefits, whether it is life, health, dignity, personal integrity, honor, good name, business reputation, privacy, personal and family privacy, free movement and others - these are personal non-property rights. The concept of «dignity» is universal. It is supra-ideological, supra-state, supra-national concept. This is the very essence - the core of human values. And, by virtue of this, the person must respect human dignity - one's own and dignity of others. Dignity is a value-based self-attitude and attitude towards other people. Dignity is a manifestation of self-awareness and self-control personal self-demands rely on. It is closely connected with personal properties: conscience, honor, responsibility. The idea of human dignity as the highest value and the highest purpose of a man has been presented and developed by humanists of XIV-XVIII centuries in connection with a new understanding of the person (Petrarch, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Kant, Fichte). The bourgeois humanists of this period proclaimed the high value of a person regardless of the social origin: «An ignoble person doesn't lose his dignity until his life is worth it». The author notes the high priority the concept of «dignity» through its mapping and comparison with such terms as «right» and «personality». 

Crowdfunding for Hospitality Ventures

Crowdfunding can raise funds in the absence of traditional financing sources. This research brief provides guidance on the effective use of crowdfunding by hospitality entrepreneurs. Our research (Belavina et al. 2020) shows that crowdfunding advantages go well beyond cash infusion. Significant benefits of using crowdfunding stem from the ability to acquire early information on a venture’s viability. This early information helps avoid investment in ventures with low market potential. Thus, hospitality entrepreneurs should use crowdfunding for venture selection, not just funding. Further, counterintuitively, our research shows that entrepreneurs are better off if they use platforms that impose fund release restrictions. These restrictions help build backer confidence, thus, bringing in more funds and better information from the crowdfunding campaign. Finally, we identify fund release restrictions best suited for hospitality ventures. This finding highlights the opportunities for building hospitality-centric crowdfunding platforms

Leveraging Bike-Share Systems to Improve Guest Experiences and Attract Tourists

Bike-share systems have become a popular method for traveling within a city, and they are rapidly growing in many cities around the world, including New York, Paris, and Shanghai. This rapid growth allows tourists to explore a city on their own, using a communal bike, giving them an essential new way to discover the city. As a result, access to a bike-share system is becoming a big part of a tourist’s experience of a city and an essential hotel amenity. In this paper, we provide (1) guidance to hotels on the choice between offering guests an in-house bike-share system and supporting their use of a city-run bike-share system, and (2) prescriptions for cities on how to best design and run tourist-friendly bike-share systems.Bike_Share_CHR_Report_final_draft.pdf: 178 downloads, before Aug. 1, 2020