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 programs Hospitality 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!

The Hospitality and Tourism Management Program has been designed to help students develop and practice performing the knowledge, skills, and tasks required for success as an employee in the hospitality and tourism industry. Features Throughout the Book: Pineapple Fun Fact Boxes: Pineapple Fun Fact boxes will highlight interesting facts about the hospitality and tourism industry. ADA Boxes: ADA boxes will highlight how federal requirements determine what the hospitality and tourism industry must do to meet the needs of guests with disabilities. Green Practices Boxes: Green Practices boxes will highlight the benefits of running a sustainable green hospitality and tourism business. Diversity Boxes: Diversity boxes will highlight the ways in which diversity affects the hospitality and tourism industry.

Updated to include the current models, theories, and hospitality practices, Hospitality Strategic Management: Concept and Cases, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to strategic management in the international hospitality industry. Author Cathy A. Enz uses the case study approach to cover current topics such as innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, ethics, and franchising. Eight full case studies with exhibits and documents address the areas of lodging, food service, tourism e-commerce, gaming, cruise lines, and airlines, making this book ideal for executive level training courses or hospitality industry executives interested in developing their strategic management skills.

Tourism is much more than an economic sector, it is also a social, cultural, political, and environmental force that drives societal change. Understanding, responding to, and managing this change will inevitably require knowledge workers who are able to address a range of problems associated with tourism, travel, hospitality, and the increasingly complex operating environment within which they exist. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide an insightful and authoritative account of the various issues that are shaping the higher educational world of tourism, hospitality and events education and to highlight the creative, inventive and innovative ways that educators are responding to these issues. It takes as its central focus a dynamic curriculum space shaped by internal and external factors from global to local scales, a variety of values and perspectives contributed by a range of stakeholders, and shifting philosophies about education policy, pedagogy and teaching practice. A benchmark for future curriculum design and development, it critically reviews the development of conceptual and theoretical approaches to tourism and hospitality education. The Handbook is composed of contributions from specialists in the field, is interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content. Providing a systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and hospitality education and its future direction this is essential reading for students, researchers and academics in Tourism, Hospitality, Events, Recreation and Leisure Studies.

"Accessibly written and thoughtfully edited, making it essential reading for those studying hospitality and embarking on a career in the industry." - Peter Lugosi, Oxford School of Hospitality Management "This text is a fascinating read... Roy Wood has spent 25 years teaching, researching and writing on the hospitality industry - much of that learning is here in this book." - Erwin Losekoot, Auckland University of Technology "All different aspects of the hospitality industry are elaborated on... All in all a wonderful course book for for our students!" - Claudia Rothwangl, ITM College This book covers the major concepts students are likely to encounter throughout their study within the hospitality management, giving a comprehensive and up-to-date overview as well as providing engaging everyday examples from around the world. A leading figure in the field, Roy Wood has successfully gathered international contributors with direct experience of hospitality management and the hospitality industry as a whole, ensuring the academic, geographical and practical integrity of the book. Key Concepts in Hospitality Management is written for undergraduate students and those studying short postgraduate or executive education courses in hospitality management, events management, tourism management and leisure management.

This Second Edition has been updated to include a brand new chapter on yield management, plus a human resources chapter refocused to cover current trends in training, employee empowerment, and reducing turnover. In addition, you'll discover how to increase efficiency with today's hospitality technology--from electronic lock to front office equipment.