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Item A bayfront hotel(1964-05) Tucker, Marcus R.Item A hotel-office complex for Downtown Lubbock, Texas(Texas Tech University, 1980-01) Bone, Bruce BNot availableItem A mountain resort hotel(1956-05) Caudle, Robert M.Item Item Competitive rivalry in the international hotel industry(Texas Tech University, 1997-12) Mathews, Vinitia E.Despite the importance of interfirm rivalry in competitor analysis, certain fundamental questions have not been explored, such as how a firm can assess which rival is most likely to retaliate, and how a firm can appropriately distinguish between its rivals. In order to answer these questions and explain what drives the competitive relationship between two firms, the extent to which pairs of firms share and compete within the same sets of markets is examined in the intemational hotel industry. Choice of market location is of great significance to competitive posture in this industry because of the distinct industry characteristics of high fixed costs, sensitivity to capacity constraints, cycles of overbuilding, high operating leverage and market segmentation. The study draws upon mimetic isomorphism and multiple point competition theories in an effort to explain why intemational hotel chains might share the same markets with other chains. Data from 1984 to 1993 were obtained from the Directory of Hotel and Motel management. The study makes use of a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The study shows how market similarity provides a good starting point to identify competitors, particularly in those industries where a local market presence is importcint. Market similarity between two firms does not necessarily mean the pair of firms compete directly; the intensity of rivalry also depends on other relevant factors. However, similarity on such factors alone (without market similarity) also does not necessarily mean a pair of firms compete directly.Item Program for a resort hotel/marina(Texas Tech University, 1986-08) Aufill, Steven C.Transition, as related to us by Webster, isthe "movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another." The human individual continually experiences countless different types of transitions from before birth until after death. Of all the varied types of transitions, physical transitions, the movements from one physical environment to another, are the most easily recognizable. The individual, in his daily routine, makes many physical transitions; from dark to light, from bed to shower, from home to work place, from outside to inside, etc. In any case, physical transitions should be controlled by a suitable "transitory vehicle." A controlling vehicle reduces the chance of traumatic effects occurring during the transition. When moving from the environment of one's penthouse apartment to the environment of the street, for example, failure to use a proper transitory vehicle (stairs or elevator) could prove to instigate severe physiological transitions. In order for the transitory vehicle to function properly, it must relate to both environments simultaneously. Architecture may function as a physical transitory vehicle. One passes through a gate when transitioning from street to garden. A doorway provides the vehicle for movement from outside inside or from public to private. An airport acts as the vehicle relating two-dimensional earthbound travel to commuting within air and its three dimensions. Architecture, as a transitory vehicle controlling the transition from one environment and its activities to another, should relate to both environments simultaneously and in a way proportional to the importance of each environment and its activities. An example of architecture used well as a transitory vehicle is the TWA Building in New York designed by Eero Saarinen. The metaphor of flight projected by the structure links the building, which, by current building practices, must be anchored to the ground, to the sky where the activity of flight takes place. The curving surfaces of the building also help reinforce the idea of movement. In all, the building provides the user with a smooth transition from relatively slow, horizontal movement at ground level to faster movement within the air. To explore this thesis, the proposed project is a resort hotel/marina. The design will center on transitions as large in scope as from land to water and as small as from guest room to balcony. Emphasis will be on creating an architectiire which sensitively aids the user in transitioning from one environment and its activities to another.Item The resort hotel(1960-05) Crumbley, Don C.