Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.]

Hotel’s information and communication technology (ICT) has affected society and its surroundings in many ways. Most of hotels in this world use ICT as to ease their tasks such as taking reservation, room management, telecommunication, and guest accounting. In Malaysia, hotels have started to use ICT...

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Main Authors: Abdul Aziz, Azdel, Saiful Bakhtiar, Mohd Faeez, Kamaruddin, Mohd Syaquif Yasin, Ahmad, Noor Azmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UiTM Press 2012
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20597/1/AJ_AZDEL%20ABDUL%20AZIZ%20JTHCA%2012.pdf
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author Abdul Aziz, Azdel
Saiful Bakhtiar, Mohd Faeez
Kamaruddin, Mohd Syaquif Yasin
Ahmad, Noor Azmi
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description Hotel’s information and communication technology (ICT) has affected society and its surroundings in many ways. Most of hotels in this world use ICT as to ease their tasks such as taking reservation, room management, telecommunication, and guest accounting. In Malaysia, hotels have started to use ICT application as an important strategic asset. ICT has been rapidly changed or enhanced from time to time and many hotels invest a lot of money to ensure that they have the latest technology. By using quantitative approach, this paper analyzed the levels of usage of ICT applications used in Room Division and Food and Beverage Department of hotels. Through self-administered questionnaires, 350 respondents from 28 five stars hotels in Kuala Lumpur were approach using random stratified sampling. It is appear that room division department has the highest level of ICT usage. This outcome had significant implication to the hotel operators on how to prioritize the importance of the hotel’s ICT application.
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spelling uitm.eprints-05972018-07-17T06:33:25Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20597/ Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.] jthca Abdul Aziz, Azdel Saiful Bakhtiar, Mohd Faeez Kamaruddin, Mohd Syaquif Yasin Ahmad, Noor Azmi Travel and the state. Tourism Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service Hotel’s information and communication technology (ICT) has affected society and its surroundings in many ways. Most of hotels in this world use ICT as to ease their tasks such as taking reservation, room management, telecommunication, and guest accounting. In Malaysia, hotels have started to use ICT application as an important strategic asset. ICT has been rapidly changed or enhanced from time to time and many hotels invest a lot of money to ensure that they have the latest technology. By using quantitative approach, this paper analyzed the levels of usage of ICT applications used in Room Division and Food and Beverage Department of hotels. Through self-administered questionnaires, 350 respondents from 28 five stars hotels in Kuala Lumpur were approach using random stratified sampling. It is appear that room division department has the highest level of ICT usage. This outcome had significant implication to the hotel operators on how to prioritize the importance of the hotel’s ICT application. UiTM Press 2012 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20597/1/AJ_AZDEL%20ABDUL%20AZIZ%20JTHCA%2012.pdf Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.]. (2012) Journal of Tourism, Hospitality & Culinary Arts (JTHCA) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Tourism,_Hospitality_=26_Culinary_Arts_=28JTHCA=29/>, 4 (2). pp. 34-48. ISSN 1985-8914 ; 2590-3837 https://www.jthca.org/
spellingShingle Travel and the state. Tourism
Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service
Abdul Aziz, Azdel
Saiful Bakhtiar, Mohd Faeez
Kamaruddin, Mohd Syaquif Yasin
Ahmad, Noor Azmi
Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.]
title Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.]
title_full Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.]
title_fullStr Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.]
title_short Information and communication technology application’s usage in hotel industry / Azdel Abdul Aziz... [et al.]
title_sort information and communication technology application s usage in hotel industry azdel abdul aziz et al
topic Travel and the state. Tourism
Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20597/1/AJ_AZDEL%20ABDUL%20AZIZ%20JTHCA%2012.pdf
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