1. Introduction
Hospitality industry has significant advantages for the retailer over holding inventory for the tourism.
These advantages include savings in holding cost, significant reductions in processing costs and
increasing tourism customer satisfaction as a result of better tourism service. According to Huppertz ,
"direct store delivery (DSD) or drop shipping is how some trading partners avoid the cost of handling
smaller orders in a retailer's or a distributor's distribution center. By letting the supplier ship the order
directly to the store or end customer, a whole step is removed from the supply chain and the retailers (or
buyers) achieve their objective of pushing inventory upstream to suppliers." Drop shipping als o has