How the Hotel Website Management Influence Hotel Supply Chain Management and Tourism Industry? A Case of Malaysian

The objective of the current study is to examine the influence of hotel website management on hotel supply chain management and tourism industry performance in Malaysia. In the present decade, there is an increasing public interest in the web correspondence and the Internet marketing on tourism. A growing number of the Internet clients demonstrate that the Internet has grown quicker than some other type of electronic innovation or correspondence. That is why it is one of the emerging element to connect hotels and tourists. In this study a survey was carried out to collect the data from hotel employees and tourists. While analysing the data, it is revealed that hotel website management has considerable contribution in tourism industry through hotel supply chain. Website elements such as accessibility, flexibility and interactivity have important role in hotel supply chain. Moreover, staff service quality cannot be neglected. It increases the website service quality by strengthening the positive effect of hotel website on hotel supply chain

Alley-cropping system can boost arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is among the fastest expanding crops, due to high global demand for vegetable oils. Large areas of forest are converted into oil palm plantation to meet the market demand in producing countries which causes rapid decline in tropical biodiversity, including arthropods. The alley-cropping system has the potential to promote faunal biodiversity, related ecosystem services and food security in agricultural landscapes. In alley-cropping, a main crop is intercropped with a secondary crop (often a food crop), secondary crops are cultivated in the alleys in between the main crop. We compared arthropod taxonomic richness, arthropod predators and decomposers between five alley-cropping treatments (pineapple, bamboo, black pepper, cacao, bactris), where oil palm is intercropped with another species. In addition, we sampled two control treatments: monoculture oil palm, aged seven and 15 years old. A total of 50,155 arthropod individuals were recorded using pitfall trap sampling, representing 19 orders and 28 families. Fourteen orders belonging to sub-phylum Insecta, three orders from Arachnida (Araneae; Acarinae; Scorpiones) and two orders from Myriapoda (Chordeumatida; Geophilomorpha). We detected an increase in beta-diversity of oil palm production landscape. Specifically, we found that the number of arthropod orders, families and abundance were significantly greater in alley-cropping farming plots than those in monoculture plots. In addition, alley-cropping treatments contained larger numbers of predators and decomposers. Our findings suggest that the alley-cropping system can become a key management strategy to improve biodiversity and ecosystem functions within oil palm production landscapes