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Journals pages 226-228
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research International Journal of Event and Festival Management Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology Tourism Review Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
Books page 229
Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research Advances in Hospitality and Leisure Tourism Social Science Series
Journals
Tourism and Hospitality Journals
International Journal of
Contemporary Hospitality Management
ISSN 0959-6119
Volume 21 Number 1 2009
International Journal of
Contemporary Hospitality Management
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 0959-6119 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 22 7 7 1989 - date 1994 - date
The International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM) aims to communicate the latest developments and thinking on the management of hospitality operations world-wide. A multidisciplinary journal, it covers issues relevant to operations, marketing, finance and personnel and encourages an interchange between hospitality managers, educators and researchers. Combining innovative international academic thinking with practical examples of industry best practice, IJCHM provides information and ideas for those seeking to raise standards.
• IJCHM is consistently ranked in the top ten journals in the Emerald Fulltext database in terms of usage. • IJCHM actively encourages and supports the publication of work by first-time authors.
Sample articles
Online distribution strategies and competition: are the global hotel companies getting it right? Gabriel Gazzoli, Institut Hotelier César Ritz, Le Bouveret, Switzerland, Woo Gon Kim, International Center for Hospitality Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA and Radesh Palakurthi, School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
Vol. 20 No. 4, 2008
Coverage includes:
Annual review of trends; applied research; effective marketing; hospitality methodology; management styles, methods and principles; techniques and innovations; and strategic management.
Editor
Dr Fevzi Okumus
University of Central Florida, USA
Benefits and features
• IJCHM is regarded as a leading journal in the field by key figures within the hospitality industry.
Hospitality workplace problems and poor training: a close relationship Jill Poulston, School of Hospitality and Tourism, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
Vol. 20 No. 4, 2008
www.emeraldinsight.com/ijchm.htm
International Journal of
Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
ISSN 1750-6182
Volume 3 Number 1 2009
International Journal of
Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
Published in association with
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1750-6182 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 4 4 4 2007 - date 2007 - date
The International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research (IJCTHR) focuses on building bridges between theory, research and practice across the interrelated fields of culture, tourism and hospitality. International in scope and grounded in “theory-into-practice”, the journal seeks to provide breadth, depth, provocation and passion in reporting the nuances of humans’ lived experiences relating to culture, tourism and hospitality.
• IJCTHR integrates multidisciplinary perspectives in describing, explaining, predicting, and influencing tourism and hospitality behaviour within and across cultures.
Sample articles
Going where the Joneses go: understanding how others influence travel decision making Russell R. Currie and Franz Wesley, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada and Paul Sutherland, King’s Christian School, Salmon Arm, Canada
Vol. 2 No. 1, 2008
Coverage includes:
Tourist culture and behaviour; marketing practices in tourism and hospitality, and how these relate to cultures; consumer behaviour and trends in tourism and hospitality; destination culture and destination marketing; and international tourism and hospitality.
Editor
Professor Arch Woodside
Boston College, USA
Examining the dimensions of a lifestyle tourism destination Michael J. Gross, Chris Brien and Graham Brown, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Vol. 2 No. 1, 2008
Benefits and features
• IJCTHR is the only journal to link explicitly the three connected disciplines of tourism, hospitality, and culture, edited by a leading figure. • IJCTHR makes explicit links between theory and good practice, exploiting useful marketing analysis, trends and practices for successful tourism and hospitality strategies.
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Tourism and Hospitality Journals
International Journal of
Event and Festival Management
ISSN 1758-2954
Journals
Volume 1 Number 1 2010
International Journal of
Event and Festival Management
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1785-2954 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 1 3 3 2010 - date 2010 - date
Editor
Professor Leo Jago
Victoria University, Australia
The International Journal of Event and Festival Management (IJEFM) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, analyse and shape the event and festival industry. The event industry is a rapidly growing segment of virtually every sector of society. Events are part of public, not-for-profit, charitable, private, and corporate sectors. This industry is being used as a way of stimulating economies, increasing tourism, developing community awareness, increasing public involvement and generating revenue. The journal seeks to advance knowledge in the field of events and to enhance the uptake of such knowledge by academics and practitioners in the field.
Coverage includes:
Event Marketing; Event Planning and Design; Event Logistics; Event Evaluation; Strategic Management and Creative Leadership; Sponsorship and Fundraising; Volunteer and Human Resource Management; Event Professionalism; Event Innovations; Event Programming; Event Risk Management; Financial Management of Events; Clients and Concepts; Business Relations; Conferences; Public Relations; Festivals; Conventions.
Benefits and features
• Each issue contains a section that provides practical perspectives on the articles published. • Reviews of event tools and software rather than more traditional book reviews.
www.emeraldinsight.com/ijefm.htm
Journal of
Hospitality and Tourism Technology
ISSN 1757-9880
Volume 1 Number 1 2010
Journal of
Hospitality and Tourism Technology
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1757-9880 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 1 3 3 2010 - date 2010 - date
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (JHTT) serves as a scholastic platform in the fields of Hospitality Information Technology and E-Business. It seeks to serve as a bridge between academia and industry through intellectual exchange of ideas, trends and paradigmatic changes under way in the two important and related domains that it addresses.
Coverage includes:
E-Marketplaces, electronic distribution channels; Internet or m-commerce business models; Selfservice technologies; E-Procurement in supply chain management; Social dynamics of communication on the Internet; Relationship Development and Retention: CRM, E-mail Marketing, Personalization; Electronic governance; Security of transactions and information; Mobile/Wireless technologies; Terrorism
and tourism; IT control and preparation for disaster; IT in medical tourism and travel; Virtual reality applications; Word of Mouth: Social Web, ConsumerGenerated Media; Technology and Law: Copyright, Brand Protection; Global Positions Systems (GPS); Biometric applications; Business intelligence visualization; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) applications; Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) of business systems; Space Hospitality; Technology in New Product Development.
Benefits and features
• JHTT is the only journal dedicated solely to research in technology and e-business in tourism and hospitality and tourism. • JHTT promises quick reviews and publication of articles, essential in a field that is always in a state of flux and change.
Editor
Dr Cihan Cobanoglu
University of Delaware, USA
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Tourism and Hospitality Journals
Tourism Review
ISSN 1660-5373
Volume 64 Number 1 2009
Tourism Review
The official journal of the AIEST
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1660-5373 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 65 4 4 1946 - date 2007 - date
Tourism Review (TR) aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of tourism as an interdisciplinary phenomenon and to provide insights into developments, issues and methods in tourism research. As the official journal of the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST), it promotes an exchange of scientific concepts and research findings across different cultures and language barriers. The journal is targeted at a broad audience including scientists as well as policymakers and managers.
• TR further aims to link the world of scholars and practitioners together by providing an insight into pressing issues in one or both of these worlds.
Sample articles
4L tourism (landscape, leisure, learning, and limit): responding to new motivations and expectations of tourists to improve the competitiveness of Alpine destinations in a sustainable way Mariangela Franch, Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa, Department of Computer and Management Sciences, Faculty of Economics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy and Gerardine Parisi, eTourism Research Group, Faculty of Economics, University of Verona, Trento, Italy
Vol. 63 No. 1, 2008
Coverage includes:
Aspects of tourism demand (consumer behaviour) and its development in a socio-economic context; managing and marketing tourism products and services in a destination network with its social, ecological and economic interrelations; and markets and their institutions in transition.
Editors
Professor Dr Christian Laesser and Professor Dr Thomas Bieger
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
Destination networks and induced tourism image Raquel Camprubí, Jaume Guia and Jordi Comas, Management & Product Design Department (OGEDP), Faculty of Tourism, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
Vol. 63 No. 2, 2008
Benefits and features
• TR is edited by two highly-respected Editors based in a leading institution, within the hospitality and tourism fields. • As the official journal of AIEST, TR seeks to prompt discussion across disciplines and research streams on a global level.
The official journal of AIEST
www.emeraldinsight.com/tr.htm
Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
ISSN 1755-4217
Volume 1 Number 1 2009
Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1755-4217 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 2 5 5 2009 - date 2009 - date
Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) provides thematic reviews of the major challenges facing the tourism and hospitality industry today. Combining empirical data with secondary research and views of senior practitioners in the field, each issue will provide practical solutions to challenges faced by the industry world-wide.
Benefits and features
• WHATT takes a considered look at how academic analysis might assist practitioners in a meaningful way. • Each issue is themed and addresses a significant hospitality/tourism challenge. • The outcome from each theme issue is practical and implementable. • The journal makes a practical contribution to the sustainable development of the world-wide hospitality and tourism industry.
Each thematic issue contains:
Answers to a strategic challenge facing the tourism and hospitality industry, via empirical research articles; a summary of relevant literature on the theme; discussion/“thought pieces” with practitioners responsible for dealing with the specific industry challenge; and implementable and practical management action.
Example theme issues:
What are the contemporary human resource issues for talent management in hospitality and tourism? International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (A WHATT special issue)
Vol. 20 No. 7, 2008
Editor
Dr Richard Teare
Global University for Lifelong Learning, UK
Examples of themes relevant to the journal include:
Human resource development in hospitality and tourism; tourism development; hospitality trends; travel and tourism marketing; sustainable development and international tourism; management, service improvement and business performance in tourism and hospitality; climate change and the tourism industry; and talent management in the hospitality sector.
What contribution will hospitality and tourism make in securing sustainable economic growth in India? Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
Vol. 1 No. 1, 2009
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Tourism and Hospitality Books
Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
ISSN: 1871-3173
Books
Series Editor
Professor Arch Woodside
Boston College, USA
Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research (ACTHR) broadly seeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decision processes applied to living and making major and everyday choices – from where to live, how culture affects thinking and actions; marriage, children; work choices and behavior; leisure pursuits; holiday destination; travel behavior; making trade-offs among work, play, sleeping, and necessity behaviours; deciding, using, and evaluating short- and long-term accommodations; decisions and behaviours regarding assisted living and death.
Coverage includes:
The series focuses on examining individuals’ and households’ lived experiences and their cultural and personal antecedents and consequences. The objective of the series is to promote synergies among culture, work, leisure, tourism, and hospitality scholars.
Benefits and features
• Most papers appearing in ACTHR offer advances both in theory and in empirical evidence through empirical reports which include interpretive, positivistic, or mixed research designs.
Part of the Business, Management and Economics eBooks Series Collection
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure
ISSN: 1745-3542
Series Editor
Professor Joseph Chen
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL) publishes annually and seeks to deliver refreshing insights from a host of scientific investigations pertaining to hospitality, leisure and tourism, while rendering an academic forum to stimulate discussion on current literature, contemporary issues and emerging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. Its main focus is to divulge the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been largely neglected.
Coverage includes:
Since its début in 2004, AHL has published a variety of conceptual and empirical articles contributed by tourism, leisure and hospitality scholars across 14 countries. The themes of those research papers cover a broad range of issues such as consumer behaviors, economic impacts, environmental impact, human resource management, marketing, natural disaster, pricing strategy, product development, risk management, service quality and terrorism.
Benefits and features
• All papers submitted for publication undergo peer review.
Part of the Business, Management and Economics eBooks Series Collection
Tourism Social Science Series
ISSN: 1571-5043
The books in this Tourism Social Science Series are intended to systematically and cumulatively contribute to the formation, embodiment, and advancement of knowledge in the field of tourism. The series’ disciplinary framework and treatment of tourism include application of theoretical, methodological, and substantive contributions from such fields as anthropology, business administration, ecology, economics, geography, history, hospitality, leisure, planning, political science, psychology, recreation, religion, sociology and transportation.
Coverage includes:
It further aspires to assure each theme a depth of coverage only possible in book-length academic treatment. Each volume in the series is intended to deal with a particular aspect of this increasingly important subject, thus to play a definitive role in enlarging and strengthening the foundation of knowledge in the field of tourism and consequently expand its frontiers into the new research and scholarship horizons ahead.
Series Editor
Professor Jafar Jafari
University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Benefits and features
• The series significantly favours state-of-the-art presentations and works featuring new directions.
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Tourism and Hospitality
Journals pages 226-228
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research International Journal of Event and Festival Management Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology Tourism Review Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
Books page 229
Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research Advances in Hospitality and Leisure Tourism Social Science Series
Journals
Tourism and Hospitality Journals
International Journal of
Contemporary Hospitality Management
ISSN 0959-6119
Volume 21 Number 1 2009
International Journal of
Contemporary Hospitality Management
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 0959-6119 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 22 7 7 1989 - date 1994 - date
The International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM) aims to communicate the latest developments and thinking on the management of hospitality operations world-wide. A multidisciplinary journal, it covers issues relevant to operations, marketing, finance and personnel and encourages an interchange between hospitality managers, educators and researchers. Combining innovative international academic thinking with practical examples of industry best practice, IJCHM provides information and ideas for those seeking to raise standards.
• IJCHM is consistently ranked in the top ten journals in the Emerald Fulltext database in terms of usage. • IJCHM actively encourages and supports the publication of work by first-time authors.
Sample articles
Online distribution strategies and competition: are the global hotel companies getting it right? Gabriel Gazzoli, Institut Hotelier César Ritz, Le Bouveret, Switzerland, Woo Gon Kim, International Center for Hospitality Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA and Radesh Palakurthi, School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
Vol. 20 No. 4, 2008
Coverage includes:
Annual review of trends; applied research; effective marketing; hospitality methodology; management styles, methods and principles; techniques and innovations; and strategic management.
Editor
Dr Fevzi Okumus
University of Central Florida, USA
Benefits and features
• IJCHM is regarded as a leading journal in the field by key figures within the hospitality industry.
Hospitality workplace problems and poor training: a close relationship Jill Poulston, School of Hospitality and Tourism, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
Vol. 20 No. 4, 2008
www.emeraldinsight.com/ijchm.htm
International Journal of
Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
ISSN 1750-6182
Volume 3 Number 1 2009
International Journal of
Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
Published in association with
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1750-6182 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 4 4 4 2007 - date 2007 - date
The International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research (IJCTHR) focuses on building bridges between theory, research and practice across the interrelated fields of culture, tourism and hospitality. International in scope and grounded in “theory-into-practice”, the journal seeks to provide breadth, depth, provocation and passion in reporting the nuances of humans’ lived experiences relating to culture, tourism and hospitality.
• IJCTHR integrates multidisciplinary perspectives in describing, explaining, predicting, and influencing tourism and hospitality behaviour within and across cultures.
Sample articles
Going where the Joneses go: understanding how others influence travel decision making Russell R. Currie and Franz Wesley, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada and Paul Sutherland, King’s Christian School, Salmon Arm, Canada
Vol. 2 No. 1, 2008
Coverage includes:
Tourist culture and behaviour; marketing practices in tourism and hospitality, and how these relate to cultures; consumer behaviour and trends in tourism and hospitality; destination culture and destination marketing; and international tourism and hospitality.
Editor
Professor Arch Woodside
Boston College, USA
Examining the dimensions of a lifestyle tourism destination Michael J. Gross, Chris Brien and Graham Brown, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Vol. 2 No. 1, 2008
Benefits and features
• IJCTHR is the only journal to link explicitly the three connected disciplines of tourism, hospitality, and culture, edited by a leading figure. • IJCTHR makes explicit links between theory and good practice, exploiting useful marketing analysis, trends and practices for successful tourism and hospitality strategies.
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Tourism and Hospitality Journals
International Journal of
Event and Festival Management
ISSN 1758-2954
Journals
Volume 1 Number 1 2010
International Journal of
Event and Festival Management
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1785-2954 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 1 3 3 2010 - date 2010 - date
Editor
Professor Leo Jago
Victoria University, Australia
The International Journal of Event and Festival Management (IJEFM) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, analyse and shape the event and festival industry. The event industry is a rapidly growing segment of virtually every sector of society. Events are part of public, not-for-profit, charitable, private, and corporate sectors. This industry is being used as a way of stimulating economies, increasing tourism, developing community awareness, increasing public involvement and generating revenue. The journal seeks to advance knowledge in the field of events and to enhance the uptake of such knowledge by academics and practitioners in the field.
Coverage includes:
Event Marketing; Event Planning and Design; Event Logistics; Event Evaluation; Strategic Management and Creative Leadership; Sponsorship and Fundraising; Volunteer and Human Resource Management; Event Professionalism; Event Innovations; Event Programming; Event Risk Management; Financial Management of Events; Clients and Concepts; Business Relations; Conferences; Public Relations; Festivals; Conventions.
Benefits and features
• Each issue contains a section that provides practical perspectives on the articles published. • Reviews of event tools and software rather than more traditional book reviews.
www.emeraldinsight.com/ijefm.htm
Journal of
Hospitality and Tourism Technology
ISSN 1757-9880
Volume 1 Number 1 2010
Journal of
Hospitality and Tourism Technology
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1757-9880 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 1 3 3 2010 - date 2010 - date
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (JHTT) serves as a scholastic platform in the fields of Hospitality Information Technology and E-Business. It seeks to serve as a bridge between academia and industry through intellectual exchange of ideas, trends and paradigmatic changes under way in the two important and related domains that it addresses.
Coverage includes:
E-Marketplaces, electronic distribution channels; Internet or m-commerce business models; Selfservice technologies; E-Procurement in supply chain management; Social dynamics of communication on the Internet; Relationship Development and Retention: CRM, E-mail Marketing, Personalization; Electronic governance; Security of transactions and information; Mobile/Wireless technologies; Terrorism
and tourism; IT control and preparation for disaster; IT in medical tourism and travel; Virtual reality applications; Word of Mouth: Social Web, ConsumerGenerated Media; Technology and Law: Copyright, Brand Protection; Global Positions Systems (GPS); Biometric applications; Business intelligence visualization; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) applications; Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) of business systems; Space Hospitality; Technology in New Product Development.
Benefits and features
• JHTT is the only journal dedicated solely to research in technology and e-business in tourism and hospitality and tourism. • JHTT promises quick reviews and publication of articles, essential in a field that is always in a state of flux and change.
Editor
Dr Cihan Cobanoglu
University of Delaware, USA
www.emeraldinsight.com/jhtt.htm 227
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Journals
Tourism and Hospitality Journals
Tourism Review
ISSN 1660-5373
Volume 64 Number 1 2009
Tourism Review
The official journal of the AIEST
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1660-5373 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 65 4 4 1946 - date 2007 - date
Tourism Review (TR) aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of tourism as an interdisciplinary phenomenon and to provide insights into developments, issues and methods in tourism research. As the official journal of the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST), it promotes an exchange of scientific concepts and research findings across different cultures and language barriers. The journal is targeted at a broad audience including scientists as well as policymakers and managers.
• TR further aims to link the world of scholars and practitioners together by providing an insight into pressing issues in one or both of these worlds.
Sample articles
4L tourism (landscape, leisure, learning, and limit): responding to new motivations and expectations of tourists to improve the competitiveness of Alpine destinations in a sustainable way Mariangela Franch, Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa, Department of Computer and Management Sciences, Faculty of Economics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy and Gerardine Parisi, eTourism Research Group, Faculty of Economics, University of Verona, Trento, Italy
Vol. 63 No. 1, 2008
Coverage includes:
Aspects of tourism demand (consumer behaviour) and its development in a socio-economic context; managing and marketing tourism products and services in a destination network with its social, ecological and economic interrelations; and markets and their institutions in transition.
Editors
Professor Dr Christian Laesser and Professor Dr Thomas Bieger
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
Destination networks and induced tourism image Raquel Camprubí, Jaume Guia and Jordi Comas, Management & Product Design Department (OGEDP), Faculty of Tourism, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
Vol. 63 No. 2, 2008
Benefits and features
• TR is edited by two highly-respected Editors based in a leading institution, within the hospitality and tourism fields. • As the official journal of AIEST, TR seeks to prompt discussion across disciplines and research streams on a global level.
The official journal of AIEST
www.emeraldinsight.com/tr.htm
Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
ISSN 1755-4217
Volume 1 Number 1 2009
Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
www.emeraldinsight.com
ISSN: 1755-4217 Volume: Print Issues: Internet Issues: Online archive Abstracts Full text 2 5 5 2009 - date 2009 - date
Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) provides thematic reviews of the major challenges facing the tourism and hospitality industry today. Combining empirical data with secondary research and views of senior practitioners in the field, each issue will provide practical solutions to challenges faced by the industry world-wide.
Benefits and features
• WHATT takes a considered look at how academic analysis might assist practitioners in a meaningful way. • Each issue is themed and addresses a significant hospitality/tourism challenge. • The outcome from each theme issue is practical and implementable. • The journal makes a practical contribution to the sustainable development of the world-wide hospitality and tourism industry.
Each thematic issue contains:
Answers to a strategic challenge facing the tourism and hospitality industry, via empirical research articles; a summary of relevant literature on the theme; discussion/“thought pieces” with practitioners responsible for dealing with the specific industry challenge; and implementable and practical management action.
Example theme issues:
What are the contemporary human resource issues for talent management in hospitality and tourism? International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (A WHATT special issue)
Vol. 20 No. 7, 2008
Editor
Dr Richard Teare
Global University for Lifelong Learning, UK
Examples of themes relevant to the journal include:
Human resource development in hospitality and tourism; tourism development; hospitality trends; travel and tourism marketing; sustainable development and international tourism; management, service improvement and business performance in tourism and hospitality; climate change and the tourism industry; and talent management in the hospitality sector.
What contribution will hospitality and tourism make in securing sustainable economic growth in India? Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
Vol. 1 No. 1, 2009
www.emeraldinsight.com/whatt.htm 228
20 ent Lau 09 nch
Re
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Tourism and Hospitality Books
Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
ISSN: 1871-3173
Books
Series Editor
Professor Arch Woodside
Boston College, USA
Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research (ACTHR) broadly seeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decision processes applied to living and making major and everyday choices – from where to live, how culture affects thinking and actions; marriage, children; work choices and behavior; leisure pursuits; holiday destination; travel behavior; making trade-offs among work, play, sleeping, and necessity behaviours; deciding, using, and evaluating short- and long-term accommodations; decisions and behaviours regarding assisted living and death.
Coverage includes:
The series focuses on examining individuals’ and households’ lived experiences and their cultural and personal antecedents and consequences. The objective of the series is to promote synergies among culture, work, leisure, tourism, and hospitality scholars.
Benefits and features
• Most papers appearing in ACTHR offer advances both in theory and in empirical evidence through empirical reports which include interpretive, positivistic, or mixed research designs.
Part of the Business, Management and Economics eBooks Series Collection
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure
ISSN: 1745-3542
Series Editor
Professor Joseph Chen
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL) publishes annually and seeks to deliver refreshing insights from a host of scientific investigations pertaining to hospitality, leisure and tourism, while rendering an academic forum to stimulate discussion on current literature, contemporary issues and emerging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. Its main focus is to divulge the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been largely neglected.
Coverage includes:
Since its début in 2004, AHL has published a variety of conceptual and empirical articles contributed by tourism, leisure and hospitality scholars across 14 countries. The themes of those research papers cover a broad range of issues such as consumer behaviors, economic impacts, environmental impact, human resource management, marketing, natural disaster, pricing strategy, product development, risk management, service quality and terrorism.
Benefits and features
• All papers submitted for publication undergo peer review.
Part of the Business, Management and Economics eBooks Series Collection
Tourism Social Science Series
ISSN: 1571-5043
The books in this Tourism Social Science Series are intended to systematically and cumulatively contribute to the formation, embodiment, and advancement of knowledge in the field of tourism. The series’ disciplinary framework and treatment of tourism include application of theoretical, methodological, and substantive contributions from such fields as anthropology, business administration, ecology, economics, geography, history, hospitality, leisure, planning, political science, psychology, recreation, religion, sociology and transportation.
Coverage includes:
It further aspires to assure each theme a depth of coverage only possible in book-length academic treatment. Each volume in the series is intended to deal with a particular aspect of this increasingly important subject, thus to play a definitive role in enlarging and strengthening the foundation of knowledge in the field of tourism and consequently expand its frontiers into the new research and scholarship horizons ahead.
Series Editor
Professor Jafar Jafari
University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Benefits and features
• The series significantly favours state-of-the-art presentations and works featuring new directions.
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