{"title":"Extending the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport: a modular hotel construction case study","authors":"R. Whitfield, Gert Noordzy, Li-Chun Lin","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2021.2010165","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The hospitality and tourism industry is growing worldwide with more new hotel buildings and extension projects. The process of developing a new hotel seems to be rarely considered in most hospitality and tourism curricula. Moreover, hospitality management students are rarely exposed to the important and well-defined discipline of project management, but clearly, developing a new hotel is a reasonably large and complex project. This case study explains why modular construction was the best way to build the extension to the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport in Singapore, instead of more traditional in-situ construction methods. Additionally, the case study introduces key principles and practices within the discipline of project management, especially as they relate to developing new hotels and/or extending existing hotels. This case study has been prepared after reviewing published materials about the project and extensively interviewing four senior members of the project team.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"179 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2021.2010165","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT The hospitality and tourism industry is growing worldwide with more new hotel buildings and extension projects. The process of developing a new hotel seems to be rarely considered in most hospitality and tourism curricula. Moreover, hospitality management students are rarely exposed to the important and well-defined discipline of project management, but clearly, developing a new hotel is a reasonably large and complex project. This case study explains why modular construction was the best way to build the extension to the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport in Singapore, instead of more traditional in-situ construction methods. Additionally, the case study introduces key principles and practices within the discipline of project management, especially as they relate to developing new hotels and/or extending existing hotels. This case study has been prepared after reviewing published materials about the project and extensively interviewing four senior members of the project team.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism is the professional journal of the International Society of Travel & Tourism Educators (ISTTE). This journal serves as an international interdisciplinary forum and reference source for travel and tourism education. The readership of the journal is international in scope, with a good representation in college and university libraries as well as high schools and professional schools offering courses in travel and tourism.