At last, a comprehensive, systematically organized handbook which gives a reliable and critical guide to all aspects of one of the world’s leading industries: the hospitality industry. The book focuses on key aspects of the hospitality management curriculum, research and practice bringing together leading scholars throughout the world. Each essay examines a theme or functional aspect ofhospitality management and offers a critical overview of the principal ideas and issues that have contributed, and continue to contribute, within it. The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management constitutes a single, comprehensive source of reference which will satisfy the information needs of both specialists in the field and non-specialists who require a contemporary introduction to the hospitality industry and its analysis. INDICE: The Nature and Meanings Of ‘Hospitality’ The Structure and Nature of The International Hospitality Industry The Inter-Relationships Between Leisure, Recreation, Tourism and Hospitality Women in Hospitality A Critique of Hospitality Research and Its Advicacy of Multi- And Interdisciplinary Approaches Hospitality Management Education From the Top Down From the Bottom up Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry Financial Management in the Hospitality Industry Organization Studies and Hospitality Management Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Hospitality Service Quality and Hospitality Organizations Information Technology Strategy in the Hospitality Industry Hotel Real Estate Finance and Investments Accommodation and Facilities Management The MICE Industry Food and Beverage Management Food Production and Service Systems Theory Licensed Retail Management Flight Catering Resort Management Event Management
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-0025-6
- Editorial: Sage
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 460
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés