The major findings of this paper are as follows: During 1996 to 2007 the numbers of overseas Chinese tourists significantly worsened cost efficiency, while the numbers of native, North American and Japanese tourists have significantly improve cost efficiency. With regard to Asian, European and Australian tourists, there are no relationships with cost efficiencies. The chain system and a shorter distance to the nearest international airport will both improve cost efficiency. The ITHs in Taiwan have becomes more cost-inefficient during 1996 to 2007.
Due to the showdowns and recessions in Taiwan’s economic development over the past
ten years, cost efficiency has become a major concern for these international tourist hotels to
sustain their operations. This study finds significantly positive effects on cost efficiency by
increasing tourists from Taiwan, North America, Japan, and Australia. Therefore, the
service design and marketing strategies can be targeted at tourists from these sources in order to promote a Taiwan ITHs’ cost efficiency. Moreover, the chain system significantly improves cost efficiency. Small and medium-sized ITHs can hence earn network effects, marketing benefits, joint promotion, quality management, and brand values by joining chain systems.
The 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition will be held from Novenmber 2010 to April 2011. This will definitely attract plenty of Japan tourists to visit Taipei. As for native tourists, more of them will increase ITHs’ cost efficiency. This is also necessary for a Taiwan ITHs due to the average of occupancy rate is not always 100%. Joining a worldwide chain system will increase an ITH’s exposure to global tourists. Future study may do more accurate analysis on Chinese tourists after new panel data are published with separated China tourist numbers.
Moreover, this study discovers hotels in Taipei and scenic are good for cost efficiency;
hotels in Kaohsiung are poor in cost efficiency. Taichung and Hualien hotels have no concern to cost efficiency. Before year 2000, government really puts main resources in North Taiwan (Taipei) and ignores south Taiwan. This paper also supports such a proposition..
The last environmental variable is year. The result tells us a warning message that from
1996 to 2007 the overall cost efficiency gradual decline. This is a serious phenomenon to all
Taiwan hotel CEOs and high-level government officers.
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Appendix 1
OTE, AE, CE scores during 1996~2007
Year 1996
ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE
The Grand Hotel 1 0.836 0.547 0.458 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung
28 0.644 0.859 0.553 The Ambassador Hotel 2 0.905 0.912 0.825 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.568 0.873 0.496 Mandarina Crown Hotel 3 0.587 0.876 0.514 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.908 0.745 0.676 Imperial Taipei 4 0.384 0.813 0.312 Park Hotel 33 0.277 0.920 0.255 Gloria Prince Hotel 5 0.663 0.948 0.628 Hotel National 34 0.621 0.718 0.446 Emperor Hotel 6 1.000 0.560 0.560 Plaza International Hotel 35 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hotel Riverview Taipei 7 0.626 0.731 0.457 Evergreen Laurel Hotel 36 0.752 0.906 0.681 Caesar Park Taipei 8 0.838 0.817 0.685 Howard Plaza Hotel Taichung 37 1.000 0.626 0.626 Golden China Hotel 9 0.683 0.798 0.544 Marshal Hotel 40 0.415 0.868 0.360 Brother Hotel 11 0.882 0.908 0.801 Chinatrust Hotel Hualien 41 0.726 0.736 0.535 Santos Hotel 12 0.635 0.707 0.449 Parkview Hotel 42 0.657 0.835 0.549 The Ritz Landis Hotel 13 0.768 0.912 0.700 Hotel Landis China
Yangmingshan
44 0.779 0.815 0.635 United Hotel 14 1.000 0.710 0.710 The Grand Hotel Kaohsiung 45 0.684 0.794 0.543 Sheraton Taipei Hotel 15 0.990 0.843 0.835 Caesar Park Hotel Kending 46 1.000 0.916 0.916 Taipei Fortuna Hotel 16 0.487 0.837 0.408 Hotel Royal Chihpen Spa 47 0.899 0.970 0.872 Holiday Inn Asiaworld Taipei 17 0.887 0.894 0.793 Taoyuan Holiday Hotel 52 0.745 0.599 0.446 Hotel Royal Taipei 18 0.855 0.879 0.752 Hotel Tainan 53 1.000 0.729 0.729 Howard Plaza Hotel 19 1.000 1.000 1.000 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 1.000 0.999 0.999 Rebar Crowne Plaza Taipei 20 0.728 0.998 0.727 Jen Dow International Hotel 59 0.419 0.793 0.332 Grand Hyatt Taipei 21 1.000 0.989 0.989 Plaza Hotel 60 0.582 0.469 0.273 Grand Formosa Regent Taipei 22 1.000 1.000 1.000 Le Midi Hotel Chitou 61 0.829 0.918 0.761 The Sherwood Hotel Taipei 23 1.000 1.000 1.000 Miramar Garden Taipei 63 0.614 0.797 0.490 Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 0.973 0.894 0.870 Chinatrust Hotel Sun Moon
Lake
64 0.603 0.814 0.491 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.474 0.758 0.360 Ming-Ren Hotel 65 0.351 0.825 0.290 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.580 0.746 0.433
Year 1997
ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE
The Grand Hotel 1 0.671 0.758 0.509 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung
28 0.657 0.860 0.565 The Ambassador Hotel 2 0.974 0.847 0.825 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.634 0.826 0.524 Mandarina Crown Hotel 3 0.551 0.904 0.498 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.921 0.713 0.657 Imperial Taipei 4 0.475 0.560 0.266 Howard Plaza Hotel Kaohsiung 31 1.000 0.598 0.598 Gloria Prince Hotel 5 0.690 0.960 0.662 Park Hotel 33 0.297 0.899 0.267 Emperor Hotel 6 0.909 0.597 0.542 Hotel National 34 0.563 0.856 0.482 Hotel Riverview Taipei 7 0.543 0.761 0.413 Plaza International Hotel 35 0.467 0.917 0.428 Caesar Park Taipei 8 0.734 0.848 0.622 Evergreen Laurel Hotel 36 0.678 0.849 0.576 Golden China Hotel 9 0.540 0.900 0.486 Howard Plaza Hotel Taichung 37 0.833 0.781 0.651 San Want Hotel 10 0.801 0.947 0.758 Marshal Hotel 40 0.490 0.787 0.385 Brother Hotel 11 0.816 0.914 0.746 Chinatrust Hotel Hualien 41 0.628 0.828 0.520 Santos Hotel 12 0.661 0.772 0.511 Parkview Hotel 42 0.825 0.764 0.631 The Ritz Landis Hotel 13 0.780 0.896 0.699 Hotel Landis China
Yangmingshan 44 0.778 0.891 0.693
United Hotel 14 0.942 0.712 0.671 The Grand Hotel Kaohsiung 45 0.730 0.710 0.519 Sheraton Taipei Hotel 15 0.962 0.843 0.811 Caesar Park Hotel Kending 46 1.000 0.917 0.917 Taipei Fortuna Hotel 16 0.563 0.745 0.419 Hotel Royal Chihpen Spa 47 1.000 0.971 0.971 Holiday Inn Asiaworld Taipei 17 1.000 1.000 1.000 Grand Formosa Hotel 48 0.736 0.816 0.601 Hotel Royal Taipei 18 0.832 0.913 0.760 Taoyuan Holiday Hotel 52 0.665 0.626 0.416 Howard Plaza Hotel 19 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hotel Tainan 53 1.000 0.768 0.768 Rebar Crowne Plaza Taipei 20 0.748 0.969 0.725 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 1.000 0.949 0.949 Grand Hyatt Taipei 21 1.000 1.000 1.000 Jen Dow International Hotel 59 0.438 0.708 0.310 Grand Formosa Regent Taipei 22 1.000 0.981 0.981 Le Midi Hotel Chitou 61 0.875 0.907 0.794 The Sherwood Hotel Taipei 23 1.000 1.000 1.000 Miramar Garden Taipei 63 0.617 0.803 0.496 Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 1.000 0.874 0.874 Chinatrust Hotel Sun Moon
Lake
64 0.696 0.713 0.496 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.466 0.684 0.319 Ming-Ren Hotel 65 0.484 0.740 0.358 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.501 0.784 0.393
Year 1998
ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE
The Grand Hotel 1 0.726 0.835 0.606 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung
28 0.598 0.902 0.539 The Ambassador Hotel 2 0.927 0.903 0.838 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.630 0.929 0.585 Mandarina Crown Hotel 3 0.568 0.889 0.505 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.952 0.662 0.631 Imperial Taipei 4 1.000 0.958 0.958 Howard Plaza Hotel Kaohsiung 31 0.750 0.762 0.571 Gloria Prince Hotel 5 0.660 0.905 0.597 Park Hotel 33 0.337 0.869 0.293 Emperor Hotel 6 0.859 0.628 0.539 Hotel National 34 0.587 0.897 0.526 Hotel Riverview Taipei 7 0.588 0.730 0.429 Plaza International Hotel 35 0.494 0.962 0.476 Caesar Park Taipei 8 0.715 0.914 0.654 Evergreen Laurel Hotel 36 0.626 0.894 0.560 Golden China Hotel 9 0.562 0.918 0.516 Howard Plaza Hotel Taichung 37 0.866 0.831 0.720 San Want Hotel 10 0.978 0.898 0.879 Marshal Hotel 40 0.445 0.795 0.354 Brother Hotel 11 1.000 0.834 0.834 Chinatrust Hotel Hualien 41 0.551 0.894 0.493 Santos Hotel 12 0.636 0.903 0.574 Parkview Hotel 42 0.740 0.911 0.674 The Ritz Landis Hotel 13 0.783 0.819 0.641 Hotel Landis China
Yangmingshan 44 0.691 0.827 0.572 United Hotel 14 0.580 0.738 0.428 The Grand Hotel Kaohsiung 45 0.695 0.703 0.489 Sheraton Taipei Hotel 15 0.928 0.939 0.871 Caesar Park Hotel Kending 46 0.882 0.968 0.854 Taipei Fortuna Hotel 16 0.380 0.926 0.352 Hotel Royal Chihpen Spa 47 1.000 1.000 1.000 Holiday Inn Asiaworld Taipei 17 1.000 1.000 1.000 Grand Formosa Hotel 48 0.743 0.917 0.681 Hotel Royal Taipei 18 0.799 0.908 0.726 Howard Beach Resort Kending 49 1.000 0.704 0.704 Howard Plaza Hotel 19 1.000 1.000 1.000 Taoyuan Holiday Hotel 52 0.586 0.701 0.411 Rebar Crowne Plaza Taipei 20 0.819 0.932 0.763 Hotel Tainan 53 0.900 0.775 0.698 Grand Hyatt Taipei 21 1.000 1.000 1.000 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 0.916 0.921 0.844 Grand Formosa Regent Taipei 22 1.000 0.973 0.973 Jen Dow International Hotel 59 0.416 0.867 0.361 The Sherwood Hotel Taipei 23 1.000 1.000 1.000 Plaza Hotel 60 1.000 0.734 0.734 Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 1.000 0.965 0.965 Le Midi Hotel Chitou 61 0.952 0.941 0.896 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.451 0.728 0.328 Miramar Garden Taipei 63 0.621 0.825 0.512 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.453 0.849 0.385 Chinatrust Hotel Sun Moon
Lake
64 0.718 0.787 0.565
Year 1999
ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE
The Grand Hotel 1 0.902 0.840 0.758 Han-Hsien international Hotel
29 0.635 0.913 0.580 The Ambassador Hotel 2 0.994 0.887 0.882 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.855 0.777 0.664 Mandarina Crown Hotel 3 0.667 0.794 0.529 Howard Plaza Hotel
Kaohsiung The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 28 0.751 0.877 0.659 Chinatrust Hotel Sun Moon
Lake 64 0.618 0.857 0.530
Year 2000
ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE
The Grand Hotel 1 0.753 0.845 0.636 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung
28 0.642 0.936 0.601 The Ambassador Hotel 2 0.793 0.959 0.760 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.479 0.976 0.468 Mandarina Crown Hotel 3 1.000 0.665 0.665 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.683 0.872 0.596 Imperial Taipei 4 0.733 0.893 0.654 Howard Plaza Hotel Kaohsiung 31 0.524 0.900 0.471 Gloria Prince Hotel 5 0.562 0.916 0.515 The Splendor Kaohsiung 32 0.730 0.780 0.569 Emperor Hotel 6 1.000 0.535 0.535 Park Hotel 33 0.278 0.789 0.219 Hotel Riverview Taipei 7 0.614 0.691 0.425 Hotel National 34 0.562 0.874 0.491 Caesar Park Taipei 8 0.648 0.954 0.618 Plaza International Hotel 35 0.488 0.857 0.418 Golden China Hotel 9 0.642 0.806 0.517 Evergreen Laurel Hotel 36 0.664 0.837 0.555 San Want Hotel 10 0.907 0.881 0.799 Howard Plaza Hotel Taichung 37 0.671 0.844 0.566 Brother Hotel 11 0.915 0.916 0.837 The Splendor Taichung 38 0.972 0.807 0.785 Santos Hotel 12 0.673 0.838 0.564 Marshal Hotel 40 0.466 0.899 0.419 The Ritz Landis Hotel 13 0.808 0.883 0.714 Chinatrust Hotel Hualien 41 0.534 0.873 0.465 United Hotel 14 0.938 0.681 0.639 Parkview Hotel 42 0.594 0.853 0.507 Sheraton Taipei Hotel 15 0.878 0.830 0.729 Hotel Landis China
Yangmingshan
44 0.721 0.915 0.660 Taipei Fortuna Hotel 16 0.429 0.824 0.353 The Grand Hotel Kaohsiung 45 0.875 0.685 0.600 Holiday Inn Asiaworld
Taipei 17 1.000 0.817 0.817 Caesar Park Hotel Kending 46 0.827 0.926 0.766 Hotel Royal Taipei 18 0.754 0.905 0.683 Hotel Royal Chihpen Spa 47 1.000 0.930 0.930 Howard Plaza Hotel 19 1.000 1.000 1.000 天祥晶華渡假酒店 48 0.655 0.822 0.538 Rebar Crowne Plaza Taipei 20 0.797 0.899 0.717 墾丁 Howard Plaza Hotel 49 1.000 0.761 0.761 Grand Hyatt Taipei 21 1.000 1.000 1.000 Taoyuan Holiday Hotel 52 0.546 0.689 0.376 Grand Formosa Regent
Taipei
22 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hotel Tainan 53 0.965 0.897 0.866 The Sherwood Hotel Taipei 23 1.000 0.994 0.994 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 0.782 0.950 0.743 Far Eastern Plaza Hotel
Taipei 24 1.000 0.893 0.893 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 55 0.644 0.921 0.593 The Westin Hotel 25 1.000 0.845 0.845 Jen Dow International Hotel 59 0.352 0.811 0.286 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.359 0.960 0.344 Plaza Hotel 60 1.000 0.655 0.655 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.456 0.847 0.386 Le Midi Hotel Chitou 61 0.822 0.805 0.662
Year 2001
ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE
The Grand Hotel 1 0.652 0.917 0.598 Han-Hsien international Hotel
29 0.545 0.867 0.473 The Ambassador Hotel 2 0.893 0.903 0.806 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.609 0.891 0.542 Mandarina Crown Hotel 3 1.000 1.000 1.000 Howard Plaza Hotel
Kaohsiung
31 0.558 0.826 0.460 Imperial Taipei 4 0.790 0.850 0.671 The Splendor Kaohsiung 32 0.565 0.854 0.483 Gloria Prince Hotel 5 0.547 0.960 0.525 Park Hotel 33 0.298 0.788 0.235 Emperor Hotel 6 0.849 0.597 0.507 Hotel National 34 0.560 0.849 0.475 Hotel Riverview Taipei 7 0.649 0.626 0.406 Plaza International Hotel 35 0.471 0.822 0.387 Caesar Park Taipei 8 0.626 0.940 0.589 Evergreen Laurel Hotel 36 0.818 0.733 0.599 Sheraton Taipei Hotel 15 0.838 0.937 0.786 Hotel Landis China
Yangmingshan Rebar Crowne Plaza Taipei 20 0.733 0.840 0.616 Howard Beach Resort
Kending
49 1.000 0.724 0.724 Grand Hyatt Taipei 21 1.000 1.000 1.000 The Hibiscus Resorts 50 0.418 0.893 0.373 Grand Formosa Regent Taipei 22 1.000 1.000 1.000 Taoyuan Holiday Hotel 52 0.575 0.656 0.377 The Sherwood Hotel Taipei 23 1.000 0.930 0.930 Hotel Tainan 53 0.918 0.993 0.912 Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 0.989 0.958 0.948 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 0.657 0.948 0.623 The Westin Hotel 25 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 55 0.658 0.937 0.617 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.370 0.912 0.337 The Ambassador Hotel
HsinChu
56 1.000 0.825 0.825 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.472 0.789 0.372 Jen Dow International Hotel 59 0.307 0.791 0.243 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 28 0.718 0.884 0.634 Plaza Hotel 60 0.800 0.417 0.334
Year 2002
ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE
The Grand Hotel 1 0.633 0.917 0.580 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.620 0.903 0.559 The Ambassador Hotel 2 0.940 0.912 0.858 Howard Plaza Hotel
Kaohsiung 31 0.600 0.808 0.485 Mandarina Crown Hotel 3 1.000 1.000 1.000 The Splendor Kaohsiung 32 0.564 0.867 0.489 Imperial Taipei 4 0.613 0.944 0.579 Park Hotel 33 0.363 0.785 0.285 Gloria Prince Hotel 5 0.658 0.892 0.587 Hotel National 34 0.555 0.834 0.463 Emperor Hotel 6 0.909 0.550 0.500 Plaza International Hotel 35 0.443 0.839 0.371 Hotel Riverview Taipei 7 0.626 0.667 0.418 Evergreen Laurel Hotel 36 0.825 0.753 0.621 Caesar Park Taipei 8 0.628 0.968 0.608 Howard Plaza Hotel
Taichung
37 0.647 0.861 0.557 Golden China Hotel 9 0.657 0.757 0.497 The Splendor Taichung 38 1.000 0.935 0.935 Brother Hotel 11 0.957 0.840 0.803 Marshal Hotel 40 0.452 0.851 0.384 Santos Hotel 12 0.603 0.891 0.537 Chinatrust Hotel Hualien 41 0.753 0.768 0.578 The Ritz Landis Hotel 13 0.794 0.925 0.734 Parkview Hotel 42 0.661 0.966 0.638 United Hotel 14 0.649 0.935 0.607 Hotel Landis China
Yangmingshan
44 1.000 0.727 0.727 Sheraton Taipei Hotel 15 0.392 0.973 0.382 The Grand Hotel Kaohsiung 45 0.581 0.906 0.526 Taipei Fortuna Hotel 16 0.447 0.858 0.384 Caesar Park Hotel Kending 46 1.000 0.905 0.905 Holiday Inn Asiaworld Taipei 17 0.939 0.918 0.862 Hotel Royal Chihpen Spa 47 1.000 0.890 0.890 Hotel Royal Taipei 18 0.704 0.956 0.673 Grand Formosa Hotel 48 0.969 0.860 0.834 Howard Plaza Hotel 19 1.000 0.870 0.870 Howard Beach Resort
Kending
49 1.000 0.746 0.746 Rebar Crowne Plaza Taipei 20 0.706 0.833 0.588 The Hibiscus Resorts 50 0.459 0.996 0.457 Grand Hyatt Taipei 21 1.000 1.000 1.000 Taoyuan Holiday Hotel 52 0.448 0.737 0.330 Grand Formosa Regent Taipei 22 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hotel Tainan 53 0.943 0.960 0.905 The Sherwood Hotel Taipei 23 1.000 0.988 0.988 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 0.615 0.920 0.565 Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 55 0.683 0.914 0.625 The Westin Hotel 25 1.000 0.967 0.967 The Ambassador Hotel
HsinChu 56 0.941 0.991 0.932
Hotel Kingdom 26 0.358 0.922 0.330 Formosan Naruwan Hotel 57 0.532 0.919 0.489 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.422 0.900 0.380 Tayih Landis Tainan Hotel 58 0.591 0.891 0.527 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 28 0.723 0.900 0.651 Plaza Hotel 60 0.451 0.765 0.345 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.523 0.934 0.489
Year 2003
Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 1.000 1.000 1.000 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 0.598 0.939 0.562 The Westin Hotel 25 0.973 0.848 0.825 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 55 0.628 0.893 0.560 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.515 0.655 0.337 The Ambassador HotelHsinChu
56 0.743 0.951 0.707 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.465 0.787 0.366 Formosan Naruwan Hotel 57 0.605 0.849 0.513 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 28 0.788 0.883 0.696 Tayih Landis Tainan Hotel 58 0.706 0.843 0.595 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.623 0.847 0.527
Year 2004
Hotel Riverview Taipei 7 0.649 0.560 0.364 Howard Plaza HotelTaichung Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 55 0.604 0.896 0.541 The Westin Hotel 25 0.952 0.903 0.859 The Ambassador Hotel
HsinChu
56 0.714 0.921 0.658 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.531 0.596 0.317 Formosan Naruwan Hotel 57 0.528 0.871 0.460 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.625 0.648 0.405 Tayih Landis Tainan Hotel 58 0.766 0.785 0.602 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 28 0.797 0.854 0.680 Evergreen Plaza
Hotel(Tainan)
66 0.539 0.918 0.495 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 1.000 0.666 0.666
Year 2005
Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 0.970 0.958 0.929 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 0.537 0.804 0.432 The Westin Hotel 25 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 55 0.590 0.924 0.545 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.522 0.604 0.315 The Ambassador HotelHsinChu
56 0.746 0.978 0.730 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.602 0.684 0.411 Formosan Naruwan Hotel 57 0.544 0.916 0.498 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 28 0.732 0.888 0.650 Tayih Landis Tainan Hotel 58 0.676 0.803 0.543 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.667 0.981 0.655 Evergreen Plaza
Hotel(Tainan)
66 0.564 0.899 0.507
Year 2006
Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 0.968 0.928 0.899 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 55 0.573 0.921 0.528 The Westin Hotel 25 1.000 1.000 1.000 The Ambassador HotelHsinChu
56 0.755 0.946 0.714 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.491 0.600 0.295 Formosan Naruwan Hotel 57 0.513 0.934 0.479 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.567 0.697 0.395 Tayih Landis Tainan Hotel 58 0.677 0.788 0.533 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 28 0.720 0.917 0.660 Evergreen Plaza
Hotel(Tainan)
66 0.651 0.873 0.568 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.605 0.981 0.593 Royal Less Hotel 68 0.618 0.772 0.477 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.788 0.881 0.695 Hotel Royal Chiao-His 69 0.907 0.920 0.835 Howard Plaza Hotel Kaohsiung 31 0.590 0.742 0.438
Year 2007
ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE ITH Name DMU# OTE AE CE
The Grand Hotel 1 0.607 0.92 0.558 Hotel National 34 0.510 0.85 0.435 The Ambassador Hotel 2 1.000 0.95 0.947 Plaza International Hotel 35 0.462 0.82 0.380 Imperial Taipei 4 0.527 0.82 0.434 Evergreen Laurel Hotel 36 0.712 0.75 0.534 Gloria Prince Hotel 5 1.000 1.00 1.000 Howard Plaza Hotel Taichung 37 0.604 0.81 0.487 Emperor Hotel 6 0.577 0.59 0.341 The Splendor Taichung 38 0.848 0.59 0.498 Hotel Riverview Taipei 7 0.636 0.56 0.358 Marshal Hotel 40 0.442 0.78 0.346 Caesar Park Taipei 8 1.000 0.64 0.635 Chinatrust Hotel Hualien 41 0.665 0.79 0.522 Golden China Hotel 9 0.526 0.74 0.392 Parkview Hotel 42 0.480 0.90 0.432 San Want Hotel 10 1.000 0.85 0.848 Farglory Hotel 43 0.628 0.94 0.590 Brother Hotel 11 1.000 0.80 0.803 Hotel Landis China
Yangmingshan
44 0.789 0.95 0.746 Santos Hotel 12 0.513 0.82 0.419 The Grand Hotel Kaohsiung 45 1.000 0.61 0.608 The Ritz Landis Hotel 13 0.807 0.85 0.683 Caesar Park Hotel Kending 46 1.000 0.79 0.787 United Hotel 14 0.745 0.70 0.518 Hotel Royal Chihpen Spa 47 0.742 0.78 0.582 Sheraton Taipei Hotel 15 0.949 0.96 0.910 Grand Formosa Hotel 48 0.508 0.95 0.482 Hotel Royal Taipei 18 0.628 0.98 0.613 Howard Beach Resort
Kending
49 0.641 0.78 0.502 Howard Plaza Hotel 19 0.771 0.87 0.671 The Hibiscus Resorts 50 0.309 0.92 0.284 Grand Hyatt Taipei 21 1.000 1.00 1.000 The Lalu Sun Moon Lake 51 1.000 1.00 1.000 Grand Formosa Regent Taipei 22 1.000 1.00 1.000 Taoyuan Holiday Hotel 52 0.500 0.49 0.247 The Sherwood Hotel Taipei 23 1.000 0.81 0.810 Hotel Tainan 53 0.879 0.60 0.531 Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei 24 1.000 1.00 0.995 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 54 0.525 0.73 0.381 The Westin Hotel 25 1.000 1.00 1.000 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 55 0.543 0.92 0.501 Hotel Kingdom 26 0.509 0.59 0.302 The Ambassador Hotel
HsinChu 56 0.830 0.94 0.782
Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 27 0.555 0.68 0.378 Formosan Naruwan Hotel 57 0.459 0.92 0.424 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 28 0.749 0.86 0.644 Tayih Landis Tainan Hotel 58 0.607 0.80 0.488 Han-Hsien international Hotel 29 0.601 0.93 0.560 Miramar Garden Taipei 63 0.660 0.61 0.403 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 30 0.806 0.90 0.724 Evergreen Plaza Hotel(Tainan) 66 0.765 0.84 0.642 Howard Plaza Hotel Kaohsiung 31 0.629 0.70 0.442 Royal Less Hotel 68 0.634 0.73 0.462 The Splendor Kaohsiung 32 0.604 0.81 0.487 Hotel Royal Chiao-His 69 0.898 0.91 0.820
Appendix 2
Best Top 10 Cost-Efficient Hotels during 1996 ~ 2007
DM
Ambassador Hotel Hsinchu (since
2000.12) 61 Le Midi Hotel
Chitou
0.896
69 Hotel Royal Chiao-His
0.835 0.820
Appendix 3
Chinese vs. English Taiwan Hotels Names Table
台灣國際飯店中英對照表 17 Holiday Inn Asiaworld Taipei 假日大飯店環亞台北 18 Hotel Royal Taipei 台北老爺大酒店 25 The Westin Hotel 台北六福皇宮(since 1999.10)
26 Hotel Kingdom 高雄華王飯店
27 Holiday Garden Kaohsiung 高雄華園飯店 28 The Ambassador Hotel Kaohsiung 高雄國賓大飯店 29 Han-Hsien international Hotel 寒軒國際大飯店 30 Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 高雄漢來大飯店 31 Howard Plaza Hotel Kaohsiung 高雄福華大飯店
32 The Splendor Kaohsiung 高雄金典酒店(Since 1999.9)
33 Park Hotel 敬華
43 Farglory Hotel 花蓮遠雄悅來大飯店(since 2002.9) 44 Hotel Landis China Yangmingshan 陽明山中國麗緻
45 The Grand Hotel Kaohsiung 高雄圓山大飯店
46 Caesar Park Hotel Kending 墾丁凱撒大飯店 47 Hotel Royal Chihpen Spa 知本老爺大酒店 48 Grand Formosa Hotel 天祥晶華酒店 49 Howard Beach Resort Kending 墾丁福華渡假飯店
50 The Hibiscus Resorts 山芙蓉渡假大酒店(since 2000.12) 51 The Lalu Sun Moon Lake 涵碧樓大飯店(since 2002.2) 52 Taoyuan Holiday Hotel 桃園
53 Hotel Tainan 台南大飯店
54 Ta Shee Resort Hotel 大溪別館 55 Hotel Royal Hsinchu 新竹老爺大酒店
56 The Ambassador Hotel Hsinchu 新竹國賓大飯店(since 2000.12) 57 Formosan Naruwan Hotel 娜路彎大酒店 (since 2001.6) 58 Tayih Landis Tainan Hotel 大億麗緻酒店(台南) (since 2002)
59 Jen Dow International Hotel 高雄人道國際酒店(原皇統飯店) (2003.2 註銷執照) 60 Plaza Hotel 南華 (2003.11~2004.11 暫停營業)
61 Le Midi Hotel Chitou 溪頭米堤(2001.7 桃芝颱風暫停營業)(2007 重新開幕)
62 n/a 台北亞太(民 90 更名神旺大飯店)
63 Miramar Garden Taipei 台北美麗信花園酒店 (since 2006.5) 64 Chinatrust Hotel Sun Moon Lake 中信日月潭(1999.9.21 地震毀損)
65 n/a 名人大飯店(1999.6 end)
66 Evergreen Plaza Hotel(Tainan) 台糖長榮酒店(台南) (since 2003.12)
67 n/a 統一大飯店
68 Royal Less Hotel 麗尊大酒店(since 2005.12) 69 Hotel Royal Chiao-His 礁溪老爺(since 2005.4)
PS: Hotels of #62, #65 and #67 that have no English name is due to those hotels are closed for a long time
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