Innovative quality improvements in hotel services

The paper is devoted to the development of approaches for the improvement of quality of hotel services on innovative basis. It has been established that in the market of hotel services, innovations are being introduced successfully for the purpose of attracting as many customers as possible. All this ensures development of new technologies of constructing hotels, appearance of new market segments satisfying a diverse demand of visitors. It has been proved that to improve the quality of hotel services, it is necessary to develop a strategy and tactics of development of hotel business on innovative basis. It has been determined that introduction of innovations must be realised both at the level of the state and at the level of separate hotels. Further innovative growth will allow improving the quality of hotel services in the world market of hotel real estate. However, this is possible in case of normalization of the economic and political situation in the country and creation of conditions for investment attractiveness in hotel business.peer-reviewe

Dielectric response of hydrated water as a structural component of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) from different plant sources

© 2019 The current work illuminates the interplay between nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) films and hydrated water. The NFC films from three sources of technological importance, i.e. cotton, wood and flax, are compared. It is shown that cellulose materials present slight variations in supramolecular structure depending on the plant origin. The structural differences determine both quantity and state of the water adsorbed by cellulose. Dielectric spectroscopy was employed to study the state of hydrated water as a probe of both the overall and specific marks of NFCs’ structure. The measurements, carried out in the wide frequency (10−2Hz -106Hz) and temperature (123 K–293 K) ranges, revealed the formation of non-interactive water clusters at low water content. At high water content, additional states of water were identified: Water in saturated glass-forming solution and bulk. These water states were shown to be determined by the NFC's structure and morphology

Dielectric response of hydrated water as a structural component of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) from different plant sources

© 2019 The current work illuminates the interplay between nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) films and hydrated water. The NFC films from three sources of technological importance, i.e. cotton, wood and flax, are compared. It is shown that cellulose materials present slight variations in supramolecular structure depending on the plant origin. The structural differences determine both quantity and state of the water adsorbed by cellulose. Dielectric spectroscopy was employed to study the state of hydrated water as a probe of both the overall and specific marks of NFCs’ structure. The measurements, carried out in the wide frequency (10−2Hz -106Hz) and temperature (123 K–293 K) ranges, revealed the formation of non-interactive water clusters at low water content. At high water content, additional states of water were identified: Water in saturated glass-forming solution and bulk. These water states were shown to be determined by the NFC's structure and morphology