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Hospitality Management: A Brief Introduction (Hospitality Essentials Ser.)

by Professor Roy C Wood

"An innovative and cross-cutting approach to Hospitality that examines the fundamentals of the subject in a concise and commendable way. Roy Wood’s academic and practitioner expertise is brought to bear on this succinct synthesis of the subject that will quickly become a must read for all students and academics in the hospitality area." - Professor Stephen J. Page, Bournemouth University Hospitality Management: A Brief Introduction is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying hotel and hospitality management and hospitality studies. The book includes coverage of the principal areas of functional management in hospitality including: employee relations accommodation management food and beverage management marketing and sales industry structure and strategy the nature of management roles hospitality management education future trends in the field. Roy Wood uses a wide range of established and contemporary research and reflects critically on its subject, including from the perspective of the hospitality consumer, to ensure that readers gain wide awareness of the realities and challenges of the hospitality industry.

Hospitality Management: A Brief Introduction (Hospitality Essentials Ser.)

by Professor Roy C Wood

"An innovative and cross-cutting approach to Hospitality that examines the fundamentals of the subject in a concise and commendable way. Roy Wood's academic and practitioner expertise is brought to bear on this succinct synthesis of the subject that will quickly become a must read for all students and academics in the hospitality area." - Professor Stephen J. Page, Bournemouth University Hospitality Management: A Brief Introduction is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying hotel and hospitality management and hospitality studies. The book includes coverage of the principal areas of functional management in hospitality including: employee relations accommodation management food and beverage management marketing and sales industry structure and strategy the nature of management roles hospitality management education future trends in the field. Roy Wood uses a wide range of established and contemporary research and reflects critically on its subject, including from the perspective of the hospitality consumer, to ensure that readers gain wide awareness of the realities and challenges of the hospitality industry.

Hospitality Management and Digital Transformation: Balancing Efficiency, Agility and Guest Experience in the Era of Disruption (Business and Digital Transformation)

by Richard Busulwa Nina Evans Aaron Oh Moon Kang

Hospitality managers are at a critical inflection point. Digital technology advancements are ramping up guest expectations and introducing nontraditional competitors that are beginning to disrupt the whole industry. The hospitality managers whose organizations are to thrive need to get their organizations into a position where they can effectively leverage digital technologies to simultaneously deliver breakthroughs in efficiency, agility, and guest experience. Hospitality Management and Digital Transformation is a much-needed guidebook to digital disruption and transformation for current and prospective hospitality and leisure managers. The book: • Explains digital technology advancements, how they cause disruption, and the implications of this disruption for hospitality and leisure organizations. • Explains the digital business and digital transformation imperative for hospitality and leisure organizations. • Discusses the different digital capabilities required to effectively compete as a digital business. • Discusses the new and/or enhanced roles hospitality and leisure managers need to play in effecting the different digital capabilities, as well as the competencies required to play these roles. • Discusses how hospitality and leisure managers can keep up with digital technology advancements. • Unpacks more than 36 key digital technology advancements, discussing what they are, how they work, and how they can be implemented across the hospitality and leisure industry. This book will be useful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying strategic management, IT, information systems, or digital business–related courses as part of degrees in hospitality and leisure management; as well as practitioners studying for professional qualifications.

Hospitality Management Education

by Kaye Sung Chon Clayton W Barrows Robert H Bosselman

Help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field!Hospitality Management Education focuses on the academic aspect of hospitality--the mechanisms of hospitality education programs, their missions, their constituents, and the outcomes of their efforts. This book examines why people study hospitality management, the vast opportunities the field offers, and ways to best prepare students for a career in the industry or in academia. Within Hospitality Management Education, you'll find exhibits, figures, tables, and insight into innovative practice methods that will strengthen your skills as an educator and contributor to the growing success of this discipline.Containing research and first-hand accounts, Hospitality Management Education offers you insight into qualities and strategies that make educators or employees effective and successful in the industry. You'll find useful information to help you better prepare students and enhance your teaching skills, such as: understanding the history and advances of hospitality management education during the past 75 years stressing the difference between the hospitality industry and other industries to help prospective hospitality students understand the unique rigors of hospitality examining degree programs in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States to identify common global teaching trends, differences, and program outcomes enhancing student learning and education programs by linking academic hospitality programs to industry through internships, involvement with industry associations, and advisory councils assuring quality in academic programs through accreditation, certification, outside peer reviews, outside reviews by the industry, and administrative reviews of the faculty preparing for a professional academic career through strategic career planning, networking, and targeting hospitality programsHospitality Management Education discusses educational trends as a whole over the past decade to give you insight into future directions of hospitality such as increased specialization, growing numbers of faculty, more funding, and increased academic focus on research and scholarship. In this valuable volume, you'll find methods and suggestions that will make you a more knowledgeable and effective educator!

Hospitality Marketing

by David Bowie Francis Buttle

This introductory textbook shows you how to apply the principles of marketing within the hospitality industry. Written specifically for students taking marketing modules within a hospitality course it contains examples and case studies that show how ideas and concepts can be successfully applied to a real-life work situation. It emphasises topical issues such as sustainable marketing, corporate social responsibility and relationship marketing. It also describes the impact that the internet has had on both marketing and hospitality, using a variety of tools including a wide range of internet learning activities.

Hospitality Marketing: An Introduction

by David Bowie Francis Buttle Maureen Brookes Anastasia Mariussen

This introductory textbook shows you how to apply the principles of marketing within the hospitality industry. Written specifically for students taking marketing modules within a hospitality course, it contains examples and case studies that show how ideas and concepts can be successfully applied to a real-life work situation. It emphasizes topical issues such as sustainable marketing, corporate social responsibility and relationship marketing. It also describes the impact that the internet has had on both marketing and hospitality, using a variety of tools including a wide range of internet learning activities. This 3rd Edition has been updated to include: Coverage of hot topics such as use of technology and social media, power of the consumer and effect on decision making, innovations in product design and packaging, ethical marketing and sustainability marketing Updated online resources including: power point slides, test bank of questions, web links and additional case studies New and updated international case studies looking at a broad range of hospitality settings such as restaurants, cafes and hotels New discussion questions to consolidate student learning at the end of each chapter.

Hospitality Marketing

by Alison Morrison Neil Wearne

Hospitality Marketing is a no-nonsense, practical book which has been revised and adapted for a wider market, including European and international examples. It shifts the major emphasis of hospitality marketing onto building a business from the inside by word-of-mouth rather than relying mostly on the endeavours of outside promotion. Hospitality marketers are encouraged to build a customer base by constantly improving the customer's experiences at the point of sale. Hospitality Marketing aims to help you direct your decisions concerning marketing strategies towards what happens to and for the customers.

Hospitality Retail Management

by Conrad Lashley

'Hospitality Retail Management' provides students and managers with a practical guide to managing units in hospitality retail organizations. Customers rely on a particular chain of hotels, restaurants or pubs to provide the same level of service and environment across the board. This standardised service provides the customer with the security of knowing what to expect from that particular organisation. However, this standardisation allows little room for creativity for individual managers to respond to the particular needs of their local market. There is a growing realisation that there is greater profitability if the chain can offer both standardised services across all its retail operations while at the same time allowing local managers the freedom to interpret the needs of its local market as they see fit.'Hospitality Retail Management' shows managers and students how competitive advantage can be gained by adopting management techniques which are both 'tight and loose', and demonstrates how you can manage businesses with well-defined objectives while also allowing local managers to interpret their local market as they see fit.Conrad Lashley has done extensive consultancy with companies such as McDonalds and uses case studies from these companies to reiterate key issues throughout the text.

Hospitality Sales and Promotion: Strategies For Success (Professional Hospitality Guides Ser.)

by Derek Taylor

'Hospitality Sales and Promotion' is the essential guide for every manager in the hospitality industry wanting to achieve maximum profits from their sales promotions. Practical and down-to-earth, this guide discovers:* who is your customer? market segments and groups* how can you reach them effectively? the secrets of successful public relations* new and traditional technologies; from direct mail to using the Internet to maximum advantage.Derek Taylor has a wealth of experience in the hospitality industry and has worked with and advised numerous international corporate hospitality companies. Concrete and relevant case studies and examples from his experience are used to illustrate throughout the guide, from companies such as: Whitbread, Hilton International, Pizza Express and Stakis.

Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today's Hotel, Lodging, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment

by Darrell Clifton

A security director must have knowledge of criminal and civil law, risk and personnel management, budgeting and finance, and a host of other areas in order to be effective. Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today's Hotel, Lodging, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment provides experience-based, proven methods for preventing and resolving the challenges faced by today's hospitality practitioner. Designed for both novice security professionals and industry veterans in need of a reference, the book covers: Risk assessment, where threats and vulnerabilities are calculated with probabilities to determine risk The security plan, where you decide how to apply various layers of control to mitigate the risks Budgeting: the amount of money available to implement the plan determines the next step Policies: how to document policies into a security manual, training manual, emergency procedures manual, and incident action plan Staffing: scheduling, wages, deployment, and contract security Training, including specialized topics such as use of force and bike patrol Physical security and patrol procedures Alarm and camera systems and various software programs Emergency procedures and response Investigations, interviews, and crime analysis Executive skills: learning from proven leadership styles Ideal for novices and veterans alike, this accessible, reader-friendly primer enables security directors to evaluate what risks are inherent to hospitality environments, analyze those risks through threat and vulnerability assessments, and develop methods to mitigate or eliminate them-all the while keeping customers and personnel safe and improving the bottom line.

Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today’s Hotel, Nightlife, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment

by Darrell Clifton

Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today’s Hotel, Nightlife, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment, Second Edition provides experience-based, proven methods for preventing and resolving the challenges faced by today’s hospitality security staff and leadership. The lodging component of a hospitality environment creates challenges to the security professional by its complex set of assets and amenities—especially when combined with gaming environments. Whether the reader is establishing, or improving, a professional, proactive proprietary security force, or the manager of a boutique hotel, the practical methods described herein are applicable to everyone. Author Darrell Clifton takes the reader through a logical and methodical process to first evaluate what risks are inherent to hospitality environments, how to assess those risks through threat and vulnerability assessments and methods to mitigate, eliminate, or transfer them. The book stresses the importance of prevention and investigation into the root causes of incidents as a tool for avoiding future undesirable events. This is especially important in that each registered guest brings with them their own unique set of circumstances, family values, problems, and social issues. The security function must operate to protect their individual rights, their right to privacy, and their desire to enjoy the facilities they are patronizing while contributing to the revenue stream. This must be balanced with the obligation, or duty, to provide reasonable care from foreseeable harm by the hotel to avoid incidents and litigation. Clifton, an experienced industry veteran, clearly establishes and identifies practical, reasonable, and cost-effective ways to accomplish this balancing of guest enjoyment with guest protection. This new edition includes expanded content on premises liability, security force behavioral recognition, workplace violence, active shooter scenarios, evacuation planning, social media and guest reviews, and hotel scams. Additional coverage on nightclubs and bars has been added including four entirely new chapters on specialized security for events and venues, crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), advances in technology, and industry trends for the gaming and hospitality sector. Ideal for novices and veterans alike, Hospitality Security, Second Edition is an accessible, reader-friendly reference that enables security directors to evaluate what risks are inherent to hospitality environments, to analyze those risks through threat and vulnerability assessments, and to develop methods to mitigate or eliminate them—all the while keeping customers and personnel safe and improving the bottom line.

Hospitality Services: Food & Lodging

by Johnny Sue Reynolds

- Clear, well-organized presentation of a complex and diverse industry. <BR>- Profiles of fascinating and inspiring industry leaders. <BR>- Supplements provide worksheets and strategies to reinforce learning.

Hospitality Services: Food and Lodging

by Johnny Sue Reynolds

Presents an overview of the hospitality industry.

Hospitality Services

by Johnny Sue Reynolds Dorothy M. Chase

Introduce your students to the world of hospitality! Hospitality Services presents an overview of the hospitality industry. The text discusses the various roles and responsibilities of workers in the five areas of hospitality--food and beverage, lodging, travel, tourism, and recreation. The basics of management and the business side of hospitality are also covered. In addition, the text provides an overview for business support areas, such as human resources, marketing, sales, and accounting. Chapters on career planning lead students through the steps of a job search and emphasize the skills needed for success in the workplace. * New chapters on the travel, tourism, and recreation industries have been added. * Profiles of fascinating and inspiring industry leaders show individual career progression, from entry level to top positions. * New features address environmental topics and business ethics. * Instructor's CD provides and student worksheets to reinforce learning.

Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Level 3

by Patricia Paskins Gary Farrelly Ketharanathan Vasanthan Professor David Foskett Lindsay Steele

Prepare for assessment and master the skills and knowledge you need to succeed as a hospitality and catering supervisor with this support resourceCovering all of the latest mandatory and most popular optional units, with a strong focus on preparation for assessment, this will be an essential resource for anyone working towards the Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership, whether in college or in the workplace. It also provides support for those completing the Hospitality Supervision and Leadership apprenticeship.- Provides all of the essential knowledge and skills any supervisor working in the hospitality industry will need: from supporting, motivating and developing staff, to customer service skills, problem solving and controlling resources- Develops understanding of the assessment requirements with clear explanations of all criteria- Helps you to build your portfolio, with guidance on suitable evidence and activities that provide assessment opportunities- Prepares you for professional discussions and questioning with knowledge checks at the end of each unit to test your understanding

Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Level 3

by Patricia Paskins Ketharanathan Vasanthan Gary Farrelly

Prepare for assessment and master the skills and knowledge you need to succeed as a hospitality and catering supervisor with this support resource. Covering all of the latest mandatory and most popular optional units, with a strong focus on preparation for assessment, this will be an essential resource for anyone working towards the Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership, whether in college or in the workplace. It also provides support for those completing the Hospitality Supervision and Leadership apprenticeship. - Provides all of the essential knowledge and skills any supervisor working in the hospitality industry will need: from supporting, motivating and developing staff, to customer service skills, problem solving and controlling resources - Develops understanding of the assessment requirements with clear explanations of all criteria - Helps you to build your portfolio, with guidance on suitable evidence and activities that provide assessment opportunities - Prepares you for professional discussions and questioning with knowledge checks at the end of each unit to test your understanding

Hospitality Today: An Introduction

by Rocco M. Angelo

Updated throughout to reflect new industry trends, management practices, and the effect of technology and social media on various aspects of hospitality. New topics include: boutique/lifestyle hotels, Airbnb, global distribution systems, event technology, emotional labor, and Internet advertising.

Hospitality & Tourism

by Karen E. Silva Debra M. Howard

Hospitality & Tourism focuses on various marketing aspects of the hospitality and tourism industry. Developed to meet state standards and objectives, the Glencoe Marketing Series books have been developed for secondary students taking Marketing II courses. Designed as stand-alone, semester-length texts, books in the Glencoe Marketing Series also function as supplemental texts for Marketing I courses that may use Marketing Essentials.

Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction

by Eric Laws Maree Thyne

Explore how lifestyle concepts are linked to marketing the hospitality and tourism industryHospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction is a comprehensive benchmark review of how lifestyle concepts can be applied to the hospitality and tourism industry. Noted authorities present multifaceted viewpoints examining a range of topics, such as matching the lifestyles of tourism providers and guests, lifestyle segmentation studies, and methodological issues in lifestyle segmentation research. You&’ll learn how the consideration of lifestyle concepts can improve the effectiveness of marketing in addition to providing quality management and improved customer satisfaction in the hospitality and tourism industry.This book provides an in-depth exploration of the implications of lifestyle concepts in the marketing of the hospitality and tourism industry. Each chapter of Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction examines essential issues, including quality management and customer satisfaction, improving customer experience through host-guest lifestyle matching, ways to segment customers by lifestyle, and the benefits and burdens of the gay tourism market. The book confronts widely held beliefs about the industry, confirming or adjusting those views through solid data. Research is clearly presented, always with an eye toward strengthening this fragile industry.Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction discusses: the potential use of lifestyle segmentation to achieve psychographic matching between hosts and guests the significance of the lifestyle concept for the management of service quality and customer satisfaction research into gay tourism marketing, with a discussion about recent evidence suggesting that the distinct purchasing patterns of gays are exaggerated lifestyle market segments and the relation to satisfaction with a nature-based tourism experience a lifestyle segmentation analysis of the backpacker market in Scotland three different approaches to lifestyle segmentation in improving the quality of tourism and leisure marketing decisions improved understanding of tourists&’ needs through cross-classification Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction is an essential review of the lifestyle marketing concept that will prove invaluable for hospitality and tourism professionals, instructors, and industry members.

The Host Gaze in Global Tourism

by Yvette Reisinger Omar Moufakkir

Most tourism theories have been developed from the tourists' perspective, including the seminal work by John Urry, 'The Tourist Gaze', which is now a classic text. The Host Gaze in Global Tourism is a unique book for researchers and students as it is the first to look at the host gaze from within the host community. It discusses how the gaze is constructed, how it has developed, how it varies between countries and how the tourism industry can affect it. By looking at the gazes of both Western and non-Western hosts, this book analyses the dynamics of a host destination and consequences the gaze can have upon the tourist.

Hostess in the Sky (Beth Dean, Air Hostess #2)

by Margaret Hill

In this second book in the trilogy, Beth Dean continues to learn about life on the ground and in the air. Beth matures as she works through her probationary period as an air hostess, dealing with a jealous coworker, passengers of all kinds, danger, death, and her own mistakes. Will she survive probation? Is love on the horizon?

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy (Advances in Tourism)

by Marie Delaplace Pierre-Olaf Schut

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy provides a broad and comprehensive analysis of past Olympic and Paralympic events, shedding critical light on the future of the Games with a specific look at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. It draws attention to the debates and paradox that hosting the Games presents for the contemporary city. Employing a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, individual chapters highlight the various controversies of the Games throughout the bidding process, the event itself and its aftermath. Social Science-based chapters place strong emphasis on the vital importance of sustainable strategy for contemporary host cities. Along with environmental concerns whether atmospheric, microbiological or otherwise, many other requirements, costs and risks involving security and public expenditure among others are explored throughout the book. Including a variety of international and comparative case studies from a range of contributing academics, this will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field of Event studies as well as various disciplines including Tourism, Heritage studies and Urban and Environmental studies.

Hot Dogs & Croissants: The Culinary Misadventures of Two French Women who Moved to America, Got Fat, Got Skinny (again), and Mastered Eating Well in the USA—With Recipes

by Victorine Saulnier Natasha Saulnier

When the Saulnier sisters suffer one disappointment too many in their native France, they decide to pack up and try their luck in America. As journalists they have the run of the country, following stories that take them to places where most Americans have never been--from the back roads of Appalachia to an underground village of homeless people in the New York City subway system. Tight on time, and even tighter on budget, the Saulnier sisters slid easily into a drive-thru diet.Along the way they dined on: Nathan's Famous hot dogs at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island Snapping Turtle Soup as prepared by the Native American elders of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe Cheesy Grits from the Armadillo Diner in Texas And Burgers, burgers, burgers everywhere!As the Saulnier sisters adopted the American way of eating, their relationship to food shortly changes; they soon gain weight--and lose their self-esteem. This new diet is especially hard on Victorine, who temporarily abandons her vegetarianism. It's not until they meet a couple running an organic farm in upstate New York that they realize how far they've strayed from their native food values--and learn that you can eat well in America, too.

Hot Rodding in Ventura County (Images of America)

by Tony Baker

Stretching from Ventura to Santa Maria, California, a vibrant and colorful community of hot rod clubs bloomed throughout the middle of the 20th century. Hot Rodding in Ventura County takes a look at the people, places, and, above all, the cars that made up this historic period in automotive culture. Take a look into the golden years of hot rodding through vintage images of the first national championship drag races; visit long-lost drag strips such as Goleta, Saugus, and Santa Maria; and gain access to hot rodding's paramount clubs like the Motor Monarchs, the Kustomeers, and the Pharaohs.

Hot Showers, Soft Beds, and Dayhikes in the Sierra

by Kathy Morey

With this book in hand, hikers can spend their days wandering in wildflower meadows, hiking to cragged peaks, or swimming in cobalt-blue lakes in the Sierra Nevada, and then settle into a deck chair at sunset to enjoy the alpenglow. Hot Showers, Soft Beds, & Dayhikes in the Sierra describes 112 carefully chosen dayhikes in Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, John Muir, Ansel Adams, Desolation, and Emigrant wilderness areas, and more. Many hikes have easy-through-strenuous options, and every hike listed is in close proximity to one or more quality accommodations (over 80 cabins, B&Bs, motels, lodges, guest ranches, and resorts are described).

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