Perception of Hotel Guests on Acceptability of Indigenous Mats, String Beaded- Straws And Dyed- Resist Textiles as Curtains

Abstract

The hotel business is a unique establishment that includes all tourism entities that provide accommodations and foods for guests and other services to meet the needs and wishes of the customers. The environments have to be pleasing to enhance customers’ patronage. Unique features ginger customers also and it is on this that the paper is based. Four research questions were raised and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Random sampling technique was used to select four hotels and eighty respondents. Structured questionnaire and scorecard were used to solicit information from the respondents on displayed of three coded samples produced. Frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation were used to analyze research questions using a rating scale of 1-5. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to analyze the hypotheses. The findings revealed that beads, used straws, empty pen cases, and mats can be used for curtains with a mean score ) of 4.04. The respondents also agreed that the principles of designs should be applied during curtain production (  = 3.58). Also, the respondents agreed that curtains are important in the hotel (  = 4.33). The three samples are accepted. Significantly there is no relationship between materials used for curtain production and principles of design. Furthermore, there is a significant relationship between the production and perception of the respondents on exhibited products. It can be concluded that hotel guests are aware of some indigenous materials for curtain production. Among recommendations stated are: utilization of these materials bring creativity, promotes culture and beautification. The producers should adopt new technology for production.