Hotel

Summary

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator, and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat-screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, a business center with computers, printers, and other office equipment, childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In Japan, capsul

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Après le projet « Blue Hub Evian » qui traite des nouveaux enjeux de la métropole lémanique, le LAMU travaille à l’élaboration d’un projet d’hôtel «Dream Evian». Les étudiants sont amenés à penser le projet sous différents axes comme l’atmosphère, le climat intérieur et le corps, et de rendre présent "The Feeling of Evian". Dans un premier temps, ce concept d’hôtel, «franchisable» sera pensé indépendamment d’un site en particulier. Dans une seconde phase du semestre, ces différents concepts d’hôtel seront vérifiés sur différents sites spécifiques choisis dans plusieurs centres urbains aux environnements culturels et climatiques très contrastés comme Tokyo, Dubai, Hambourg, Evian.

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Collaborative Housing and the Intermediation of Moral Hazard

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This paper considers intermediation in a di_erentiated short-term housing market where heterogeneous agents may stay at a hotel or at one of several private hosts' properties, below or above hotel quality. The collaborative-housing market fails when agents' hidden actions are noncontractable. If expected liability is not excessive, a trusted intermediary can induce agents to exert first-best effort and fully insure the hosts' risks, without subsidizing the transactions. The intermediary can also extract the hosts' surplus if their outside option is zero; somewhat counter-intuitively, the commission on either side of the transactions does not affect agents' equilibrium payoffs. The optimal commission structure makes direct transactions between hosts and renters unattractive.

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Collaborative Housing and the Intermediation of Moral Hazard

Thomas Alois Weber

This paper considers intermediation in a differentiated short-term housing market where heterogeneous agents may stay at a hotel or at one of several private hosts' properties, below or above hotel quality. The collaborative-housing market fails when agents' hidden actions are noncontractable. If expected liability is not excessive, a trusted intermediary can induce agents to exert first-best effort and fully insure the hosts' risks, without subsidizing the transactions. The intermediary can also extract the hosts' surplus if their outside option is zero; somewhat counterintuitively, the commission on either side of the transactions does not affect agents' equilibrium payoffs. The optimal commission structure makes direct transactions between hosts and renters unattractive.

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