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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2408-9346</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Research result. Business and Service Technologies</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2408-9346</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">0.18413/2408-9346-2017-3-4-52-59</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1321</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>The development of the tourist industry</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>RESEARCH OF CONSUMER PREFERENCES OF THE NEW HOTEL  IN ALMATY</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>RESEARCH OF CONSUMER PREFERENCES OF THE NEW HOTEL  IN ALMATY</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Smykova</surname><given-names>Madina Raisovna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Smykova</surname><given-names>Madina Raisovna</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>mraisovna@mail.ru</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Rakhimbekova</surname><given-names>Zhanar Saparovna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Rakhimbekova</surname><given-names>Zhanar Saparovna</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>rahi-zhanar@mail.ru</email></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>0</fpage><lpage>0</lpage><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="/media/business/2017/4/Смыкова_Рахимбекова.pdf" /><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The article presents the results of marketing research of consumer preferences in the process of bringing a new hotel to the market. As a result of the conducted researches it was revealed that the main source of information when choosing a hotel for Kazakhstan tourists are the recommendations of friends, and for foreign ones &amp;ndash; sites and advertising on the Internet. Marketing researches of consumer preferences has allowed to realize that the most popular type of rooms is a standard room; this figure is about 70% of the respondents. Moreover, a large part of the visitors chooses the European, Kazak and Oriental cuisine. However, the key factor for the visitors choosing a hotel is undoubtedly the cost of stay, and the important indicators of service are security, politeness, tactfulness and staff competence. In general, the conducted studies have made it possible to determine what kind of hotels the domestic Kazakhstan market needs.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article presents the results of marketing research of consumer preferences in the process of bringing a new hotel to the market. As a result of the conducted researches it was revealed that the main source of information when choosing a hotel for Kazakhstan tourists are the recommendations of friends, and for foreign ones &amp;ndash; sites and advertising on the Internet. Marketing researches of consumer preferences has allowed to realize that the most popular type of rooms is a standard room; this figure is about 70% of the respondents. Moreover, a large part of the visitors chooses the European, Kazak and Oriental cuisine. However, the key factor for the visitors choosing a hotel is undoubtedly the cost of stay, and the important indicators of service are security, politeness, tactfulness and staff competence. In general, the conducted studies have made it possible to determine what kind of hotels the domestic Kazakhstan market needs.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>hotel services</kwd><kwd>quality</kwd><kwd>indicators</kwd><kwd>research</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>hotel services</kwd><kwd>quality</kwd><kwd>indicators</kwd><kwd>research</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>Список литературы</title><ref id="B1"><mixed-citation>1. &amp;nbsp;Arzumanyan, E. (2000), Hotel and restaurant service [Text]: a textbook / E.A. Arzumanyan; the Ministry of Education of the Federation, Sagrat. State. Soc.-Econ. University, Saratov: SSSEU, 103 p.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><mixed-citation>2. Gilbert, A. (2008), Churchill. 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