Sacramental Hospitality

Sacramental and spiritual use of hallucinogenic drugs.

Arguably, the religious use of hallucinogenic drugs stems from a human search of metaphysical insight rather than from a direct need for cognitive, emotional, social, physical, or sexual improvement. Therefore, the sacramental and spiritual intake of hallucinogenic drugs goes so far beyond other biopsychosocial functions that it deserves its own category in the drug instrumentalization list.

Sacred Space and Sublime Sacramental Piety

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...

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...

Critical hospitality management research

This paper discusses the development of critical hospitality management research (CHMR) and explores key issues that such approaches raise. The paper is split into two parts. The first reviews contemporary writings that reflect the changing nature of hospitality management research and accounts for the emergence of a critical tradition. The second part identifies eight areas which are central c...