History Hotel InterContinental San Francisco is under the InterContinental International Group, which is a multinational chain of hotels located in Europe, Asia, South Pacific, and North America, for 60 nations. InterContinental Hotels began its operations in 1946 as the hotel founded by Pan-American World Airlines. Since its inception, the hotel primarily targets customers for leisure and business purposes. With an added advantage of a flexible transportation system, Hotel InterContinental San Francisco
Environment Individually, hotels do not make a big impact on the environment. But collectively they can have a diverse effect on it by being very wasteful and consuming a lot of resources. There has been a estimation made that 75% of the hotels impact on environment is due to excessive consumption (Bohdanowicz, 2006). The main areas where the hotel effects the environment the most are the areas of energy, water and waste. Taking these areas one by one I would first focus on how the hotel affects and over
Overview of Hotel industry Hotel industry is a branch of industry that provides all kinds of hotel and business services related to the provision of accommodation, food and beverages and also in a variety of other services. As we know the main purpose of it is to provide accommodation to travellers who offers the basic things usually commercial granted in the household, it also has many other functions such as provide services that serve as business exchange centres, sociability whether casino or
All of our hotels are non-conventional, and have a philanthropic community vision.-Pam Janusz, General Manager, Joie de Vivre SoMa Hotels, personal interview, March 5, 2010 (Thompson, Peteraf, Gamble, & Strickland III, 2012). Established in 1987, Joie de Vivre (JdV) is a hotel management hotel located throughout California. By 2010, JdV is the second largest U.S. boutique hotel operator. New owners have recently purchased the hotels that JdV Management Company operates; GM Pam Janusz has the task