Education as Hospitality

Employment Decisions of Administrators in Hospitality Education 27 Faculty Qualifications and Factors Influencing Employment Decisions of Administrators in Hospitality Education

This study examined faculty qualifications and factors influencing employment decisions of administrators in hospitality programs across the United States. The results may assist potential faculty in choosing the type of degree to pursue, the content areas that are most desirable, and other factors such as industry experience that may impact future employment marketability. The results could al...

Intercultural Challenges Facing the Hospitality Industry. Implications for Education and Hospitality Management

Hospitality organizations which are increasingly operating internationally create real challenges for their employees and managers to interact and effectively work with people from different cultural environments. Many problems may relate to intercultural communication between managers and employees as well as between employees and hotel guests from different cultural backgrounds. Therefore, th...

Cornell Hospitality

As a method of determining what types of social media messages work best for hospitality firms, this study examined what types of messages gained the most clicks of “Like” and comments on Facebook. An analysis of the number of likes and comments regarding nine hundred and eighty-two Facebook messages from ten restaurant chains and two independent operators revealed clear patterns. The more popu...

Accepting Our Lives as Gift: Hospitality and Post-Critical Ethics

Finding the Hospitality Industry? Or Finding Hospitality Schools of Thought?

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of hospitality research and how it has developed over the last thirty years. To do this, the state of hospitality research is briefly reviewed and Veal’s (2002) analysis of leisure studies is presented. Hospitality is then compared with leisure studies in order to identify similarities and differences. This comparison then leads to the identific...