Elena Potekhina’s research while affiliated with Russian State Social University and other places

The article is devoted to the substantiation of the prospects for the development of the hotel services market in the Moscow region in the conditions of digitalization. It has been established that hospitality has recently turned from a fundamental concept of human civilization into a powerful industry that unites enterprises that provide various services for entertaining, accommodating, and servicing guests. It has been determined that the trends in the development of the hospitality industry in the Moscow region are the computerization of the hotel sector, the development of economy class hotels, improvement of the technical equipment of hotel enterprises, strengthening cooperation between hotel enterprises, and authorities. It has been revealed that booking modules are widely used in the practice of hotels in the Moscow region. However, this requires hotels to solve certain organizational tasks, including the collection and adequate use of information about the consumer, analysis of the features of communication with customers, as well as the development of staff education.

Our paper focuses on factors that help to successfully and efficiently manage urban infrastructure in large cities and centres using Big Data solutions. We explain the key points about urban Big Data approaches, including infrastructure that supports urban governance, public services and economic and industrial development, taking into account and supporting the central role of urban Big Data in urban intelligence with particular emphasis on the smart cities. Moreover, we want to add a third dimension to social urban data analysis by assessing the use of social, spatial, and temporal data for key issues to understand how it can influence human behaviour across time and space. Our results might have important implications for urban planners and policy-makers and contribute to the mitigating the regional inequalities as well as to improving urban infrastructure and making the cities of the future happier and healthier places for all their citizens.

Emerging markets are rapidly developing and outperforming developed markets in terms of onshore wind and solar power. Moreover, emerging markets are now getting drivers for the enhancement of global renewable energy as they are seen as territories with the greatest potential for expansion of wind and solar capacities. This study aims to investigate the casual links between financial investments by gas and oil giants and long-term vision around clean energy. We analysed various reports on procurement tools used by corporations, purchasing renewable energy. This gave us an idea about the availability and frequent usage of different instruments employed around world. The empirical results show that state support and policy development both have positive impact on state and private investments in the long run. The influence of energy development is more evident in emerging clean energy markets. The findings of the this study suggest that as renewable energy targets price and performance parity with traditional sources around the world, and is getting able to improve grid efficiency thus strengthening its competitive edge with new technologies, the hurdles to its adoption are disappearing.