Benchmarks in Hospitality and Tourism

Benchmarks in Hospitality and Tourism
Author: Sungsoo Pyo
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780789019158

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Benchmarks in Hospitality and Tourism

Benchmarks in Hospitality and Tourism
Author: Sungsoo Pyo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136799060

This pioneering book will familiarize you with benchmarking techniques that can be used to gauge and improve the performance of hospitality and tourism businesses anywhere! With compelling case studies drawn from hotel management, environmental systems, and destination practices, it examines important aspects of benchmarking, including satisfaction barometers, indicator development, and finding/networking with benchmarking partners.

Benchmarking in Tourism and Hospitality Industries

Benchmarking in Tourism and Hospitality Industries
Author: Karl W. Wöber
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2002-08-12
Genre: Benchmarking (Management)
ISBN: 9780851997568

offers methodological framework for answering key benchmarking questionsonly substantial work covering this topicworld-wide coverage and usageBenchmarking is a buzzword of the last decade that describes a method for comparing different companies, by measuring various data, performance and goals. This book focuses on the methodological aspects of the right selection of benchmarking partners.

Destination Benchmarking

Destination Benchmarking
Author: M. Kozak
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780851998756

Develops a specific benchmarking methodology relevant to international tourism destinations. This book evaluates different approaches to benchmarking, and their application within tourism destinations. The book considers organization benchmarking - performance evaluation of a particular organization and its departments - and destination benchmarking, which involves all elements such as transport services, airport services, accommodation, leisure and sport, hospitality and local attitudes.

The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism

The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism
Author: Kaye Sung Chon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135410909

Improve your hospitality and tourism research abilities with this impressive collection of research methods! The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism assists you in gaining insight into different facets of research design, conceptual development, research methods, and conclusions drawn from research in hospitality and tourism. As a professional, researcher, or graduate student in the hospitality and tourism field, you will benefit from this collection of chapters that represent examples of research trials conducted by graduate students in hospitality and tourism and are selected on the basis of the originality of the students’concepts, research methods, and interest of the work to graduate students. This informative volume will provide you and your students with up-to-date and effective ideas for researching topics within the field of hospitality. The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism is an excellent supplemental textbook for research methods classes in graduate hospitality and tourism programs. The wide variety of chapters will stimulate discussions on research in hospitality and tourism from conceptual, secondary data, and primary data approaches. Some of the research articles you will explore in The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism are based on different statistical techniques, research designs, and trends of subjects. Topics include: selecting service-oriented employees based on person-organization fit measuring the effectiveness of advertising on the Internet examining factors that affect food expenditures of U.S. tourists when they are away from home explaining the competitive structure of Japanese travelers’overseas destination plans determining the motivational needs of managers in the on-site foodservice segment providing adequate education on HIV and AIDS in the workplace for hospitality managers identifying influential variables of employee turnover in the food and beverage industry The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism serves as an important forum for initiating research and new ideas internationally. The carefully selected chapters of this essential text will provide you and your students with suggestions that will improve research competency as well as hospitality services to patrons.

Management Science in Hospitality and Tourism

Management Science in Hospitality and Tourism
Author: Muzaffer Uysal
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315356171

Management Science in Hospitality and Tourism is a timely and unique book focusing on management science applications. The first section of the book introduces the concept of management science application in hospitality and tourism and related issues to set the stage for subsequent sections. Section II focuses on management science applications with conceptual pieces, empirical applications, and best practices with examples coming from different parts of the world and settings. The last section ends with a chapter focusing on challenges and future research directions. This book goes beyond revenue management topics and presents a broad range of topics in management science applications as they relate to hospitality and tourism cases. Researchers and students in hospitality and tourism will find this book very useful since it contains chapters on data analytics, e-commerce and technology, revenue and yield management, optimization methods, resource allocation, goal programming, dynamic programming, Markov chain models, trends analysis and detection, measuring potential and attractiveness in tourism development, performance measures and use of indices in hospitality and tourism, and more. There is a heightened interest in these areas of business applications in today’s data-driven business environment, and this book addresses that interest. This book is the only comprehensive text on management science applications in hospitality and tourism. It will help managers and hospitality and tourism students as future managers to develop an in-depth understanding of the importance of data analysis, interpretation, and generating information, and intelligence for decision making. It covers a broad range of applications representing different geographic regions of the world.

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability
Author: C. Michael Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135099146

Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability from C. Michael Hall, Stefan Gössling, Daniel Scott is one of the winners of the ITB BookAwards 2016 in the category Specialist tourism literature! Sustainability remains one of the major issues in tourism today. Concerns over climate and environmental change, the fallout from the global economic and financial crisis, and the seeming failure to meeting UN Millennium development goals have only reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to tourism, however they be defined. Given the centrality of sustainability in tourism curricula, policies, research and practice it is therefore appropriate to prepare a state of the art handbook on the relationship between tourism and sustainability. This timely Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability is developed from specifically commissioned original contributions from recognised authors in the field, providing a systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on this area. It is interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content. The volume commences with an assessment of tourism’s global environmental, e.g. climate, emissions, energy use, biodiversity, water use, land use, and socio-economic effects, e.g. economic impacts, employment and livelihoods, culture. This then provides the context for sections outlining the main theoretical frameworks and constructs that inform tourism and sustainability, management tools and approaches, and the approaches used in different tourism and travel industry sectors. The book concludes by examining emerging and future concerns in tourism and sustainability such as peak-oil, post-carbon tourism, green economy and transition tourism. This is essential reading for students, researches and academics interested in the possibilities of sustainable forms of tourism and tourism’s contribution to sustainable development. Its assessment of tourism’s global impact along with its overviews of sectoral and management approaches will provide a benchmark by which the sustainability of tourism will be measured for years to come.

Sustainable Tourism Futures

Sustainable Tourism Futures
Author: Stefan Gössling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009-01-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135843244

There are increasing concerns over the relationship between tourism and sustainable development. Sustainable Tourism Futures re-assesses the sustainability paradigm and outlines the ways in which sustainable tourism is possible, offering key insights into the fundamental shifts in operations, systems and philosophies that need to take place.

Managing Tourism and Hospitality Services

Managing Tourism and Hospitality Services
Author: B. Prideaux
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2006-09-14
Genre: Hospitality industry
ISBN: 1845930150

The aim of this book is to enhance theoretical and practical understanding of quality management in tourism and hospitality. It provides a benchmark of current knowledge, and examines the range of research methods being applied to further develop tourism and hospitality service management research. It is hoped that this book will stimulate new research questions by highlighting tensions and challenges in the area.

Seasonality in Tourism

Seasonality in Tourism
Author: Tom Baum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2001-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136367071

Seasonal variation in demand is a reality for most tourism destinations. This work provides a balanced overview of the evidence and issues relating to tourism seasonality using European, North American and Pacific Rim cases and research evidence.