The manager of alarge hotel on the Riviera in southern France wanted to forecast the monthly vacancy rate (as a percentage) during the peak season.   After considering a long list of potential variables, she identified two variables that she believed were most closely related to the vacancy rate: the average daily temperature and the value of the currency in American dollars. She collected data for 23 months.

                  a.   Perform a regression analysis using a first-order model with interaction.

                  b.   Perform a regression analysis using a second-order model with interaction.

                  c.   Which model fits better? Explain.

1. Investment Timing Option: Decision-Tree Analysis

Kim Hotels is interested in developing a new hotel in Seoul. The company estimates that the hotel would require an initial investment of $23 million. Kim expects the hotel will produce positive cash flows of $3.68 million a year at the end of each of the next 20 years. The project's cost of capital is 13%.

a) What is the project's net present value? Negative value, if any, should be indicated by a minus sign. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.
$     million

b) Kim expects the cash flows to be $3.68 million a year, but it recognizes that the cash flows could actually be much higher or lower, depending on whether the Korean government imposes a large hotel tax. One year from now, Kim will know whether the tax will be imposed. There is a 50% chance that the tax will be imposed, in which case the yearly cash flows will be only $2.3 million. At the same time, there is a 50% chance that the tax will not be imposed, in which case the yearly cash flows will be $5.06 million. Kim is deciding whether to proceed with the hotel today or to wait a year to find out whether the tax will be imposed. If Kim waits a year, the initial investment will remain at $23 million. Assume that all cash flows are discounted at 13%. Use decision-tree analysis to determine whether Kim should proceed with the project today or wait a year before deciding.
-Select-It makes sense to proceed with the project today OR It makes sense to wait a year before deciding.

2. Investment Timing Option: Option Analysis

Kim Hotels is interested in developing a new hotel in Seoul. The company estimates that the hotel would require an initial investment of $20 million. Kim expects the hotel will produce positive cash flows of $3 million a year at the end of each of the next 20 years. The project's cost of capital is 13%.

Kim expects the cash flows to be $3 million a year, but it recognizes that the cash flows could actually be much higher or lower, depending on whether the Korean government imposes a large hotel tax. One year from now, Kim will know whether the tax will be imposed. There is a 50% chance that the tax will be imposed, in which case the yearly cash flows will be only $2.2 million. At the same time, there is a 50% chance that the tax will not be imposed, in which case the yearly cash flows will be $3.8 million. Kim is deciding whether to proceed with the hotel today or to wait a year to find out whether the tax will be imposed. If Kim waits a year, the initial investment will remain at $20 million. Assume that all cash flows are discounted at 13%. Use the Black-Scholes model to estimate the value of the option. Assume that the variance of the project's rate of return is 0.0687 and that the risk-free rate is 5%. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to three decimal places.

Use computer software packages, such as Minitab or Excel, to solve this problem.

$   million

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Ayayai Co. both purchases and constructs various equipment it uses in its operations. The following items for two different types of equipment were recorded in random order during the calendar year 2020.

Compute the total cost to be capitalized for each of these two pieces of equipment.

Blossom Co. both purchases and constructs various equipment it uses in its operations. The following items for two different types of equipment were recorded in random order during the calendar year 2020.

Compute the total cost for each of these two pieces of equipment.

Hassle-Free Web is bidding to provide web hosting services for Hotel Lisbon. Hotel Lisbon pays its current provider $10,400 per year for hosting its web page, handling transactions, etc. Hassle-Free figures that it will need to purchase equipment worth $14,800 up front and then spend $1,800 per year on monitoring, updates, and bandwidth to provide the service for 33 years. If Hassle-Free's cost of capital is 9.7 %, can it bid less than $10,400 per year to provide the service and still increase its value by doing so?

Hassle-Free can bid as low as $?

what are the interior and exterior facilities required to construct an amusement park

details of infrastructure of an amusement park

Hotel (hotelno(PK), hotelname, city)

•         Room (roomno (PK), hotelno (PK,FK), type, price) type can be single, double, family

•         Booking (hotelno(PK,FK), guestno(PK,FK), startdate(PK), enddate, roomno(PK,FK))

•         Guest (guestno(PK), guestname, guestaddress)

1-Display on the screen the hotel name and city of all room type family.

2-Display hotel name and city for the guests currently staying at the Holiday Inn Hotel.

Question B1 Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) has modified the hotel classification system to reflect more accurately the quality and service of Hong Kong Hotel. These factors are weighted to their relative importance according to the result of survey. The composite score of a hotel, which is compiled, based on the scores obtained for the indicators and the weights of the indicator and it is the overall measure reflecting the category of the hotel.

a) Identify FOUR components under Facilities factor; illustrate your answer with ONE example from each component.

b) From each component under Facilities, based on the official websites of EIGHT hotels in HKSAR, find out a total of EIGHT different hotels, including FOUR of them will get lowest score and FOUR of them will get highest score. Briefly provide reasons to support your findings.

c) Under Location, hotel can get score 1 to 5. Identify and explain FIVE different hotels, including ONE each with score 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 at Location, based on the websites of hotels in HKSAR.

d) Explain how a hotel can get the highest score under SRR.

e) Explain how a hotel can get the highest score under AARR. f) Under Business Mix, will a hotel get zero score? Explain your answer.

The Cheyenne Hotel in Big Sky, Montana, has accumulated records of the total electrical costs of the hotel and the number of occupancy-days over the last year. An occupancy-day represents a room rented for one day. The hotel’s business is highly seasonal, with peaks occurring during the ski season and in the summer.

Required:

1. Using the high-low method, estimate the fixed cost of electricity per month and the variable cost of electricity per occupancy-day. (Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round your Variable cost answer to 2 decimal places and Fixed cost element answer to nearest whole dollar amount.)