Creative Hospitality

Creative Hospitality
Author: Nancy L. Van Pelt
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780828008945

Certified home economist Nancy Van Pelt helps you turn home entertaining into a Christian ministry. Includes menu preparation, food presentation, introductions, relating to guests, reaching out to coworkers and neighbors, and quick fixes for an unprepared home.

INNovation

INNovation
Author: Florence Berger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1990-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Abstract: This book describes the use of creativity theory to generate innovation in the hospitality industry. In nine chapters the authors explain how to generate a host of creative ideas, how to select the best one, and then how to sell that idea.

Marketing for Tourism, Hospitality & Events

Marketing for Tourism, Hospitality & Events
Author: Simon Hudson
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-05-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1526414376

Framed within basic marketing principles, Marketing for Tourism, Hospitality & Events highlights the global shift in tourism demographics today, placing a particular emphasis on the role of digital technology and its impact on travel products and services. Covering developments across a broad range of topics such as contemporary tourism marketing, understanding today′s consumer, and the importance of public relations and personal selling, key industry changes are captured throughout the text. ′Lessons from a Marketing Guru′ feature personal insights from real world practitioners, and ′Digital Spotlights′ highlight the ways in which social media and the Internet have transformed tourism, hospitality and events the world over. These features are further enhanced by ′Marketing in Action′ case-studies in each chapter that highlight the international realities of tourism, hospitality and events marketing in practice. These include: Spiritual Tourism in Tamil Nadu, India Social media listening at Marriott’s headquarters in Hong Kong The Deer Hunt Festival in Winneba, Ghana Music-themed hotels in Prague, Amsterdam, Berlin and Mexico The promotion of Hawaii through film and television Dark Tourism in Vietnam The book is complemented by a companion website featuring a range of tools and resources for lecturers and students, including PowerPoint slides, an instructor manual, a test bank of multiple choice questions and author-curated video links to make the examples in each chapter come to life. Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students looking for an introductory text to marketing for tourism, hospitality and events.

Future Tourism in a Robonomic World

Future Tourism in a Robonomic World
Author: Stanislav Ivanov
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2024-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845419855

This book envisions the future of tourism in an economy that is largely automated. ‘Robonomics’ is the term given to this economic system that relies on robots, artificial intelligence and automation technologies for the production of goods and delivery of services instead of human labour. The volume examines the unique technological, socioeconomic and political situation that such an economy will create, and reflects on how tourism is then produced, consumed and paid for. The chapters explore some controversial solutions to the challenges of the robonomic economic system, such as redefinition of human rights, robot rights and universal basic income schemes. The chapters also consider the transition to a robonomic tourism ecosystem and the adjustments and innovations that will be required of consumers, industry and society.

Seven Days of Faith, 2d Edition

Seven Days of Faith, 2d Edition
Author: R. Paul Stevens
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725284839

These days, people talk about their schedules filling up 24/7--twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. We wear busyness like a merit badge, as if the more we do, the better we become. But R. Paul Stevens says this is not biblical. Nor is it helpful. For Christians life isn't about checking off "to-do" lists. It's about connecting with God and infiltrating thoughtful, biblical faith into our everyday lives. Sometimes that means activity, but sometimes not. Everyday spirituality--the subject of the book--embraces purposeful times of work, relationships, and rest, centered on God instead of personal or cultural expectations. But how can you do it? It's not easy exiting the fast track to practice a slowed-down yet down-to-earth holiness. Stevens understands this, and offers practical insights to developing a "subversive spirituality"--a meaningful faith that seeps into your work, family, sexuality, friendships, outreach, aloneness, and leisure--and fills you with joy. But most importantly, it motivates you to lovingly abide with God seven days a week. Matthew the Poor, an Eastern monk in Egypt, once said that "life is but one single way that leads to the kingdom of God."

Handbook of Hospitality Strategic Management

Handbook of Hospitality Strategic Management
Author: Michael Olsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2008-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113643951X

Handbook of Hospitality Strategic Management provides a critical review of mainstream hospitality strategic management research topics. Internationally recognized leading researchers provide thorough reviews and discussions, reviewing strategic management research by topic, as well as illustrating how theories and concepts can be applied in the hospitality industry. This book covers all aspects of strategic management in hospitality. The depth and coverage of each topic is unprecedented. A must-read for hospitality researchers and educators, students and industry practitioners.

A Preacher's Guide to Lectionary Sermon Series - Volume 1

A Preacher's Guide to Lectionary Sermon Series - Volume 1
Author:
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611646650

Preachers get the best of lectionary and topical series preaching with this comprehensive manual of sermon series ideas based on the Revised Common Lectionary. Designed to frame consecutive weeks of lectionary texts into seasonal and short-term series, a diverse group of twelve preachers outline multiple thematic series plans for each lectionary year. Each series plan provides a series overview, chart that outlines each segment of the series, tips and ideas, scriptural references, and a brief sermon starter. The series honors holy days and seasons and responds to typical patterns of church attendance, maximizing visitor retention and member engagement. Pastors can honor their commitment to lectionary preaching while taking advantage of the benefits series preaching can offer with this truly unique resource. Contributors include: Theresa Cho, Pastor of St. John's Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, California Bob Dannals, Rector of St. Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, Texas Magrey R. DeVega, Pastor of Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Tampa, Florida Brian Erickson, Pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church, Birmingham, Alabama Mihee Kim-Kort, Presbyterian Minister and Campus Ministry Leader at University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana Jessica LaGrone, Dean of Chapel at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky Cleophus J. LaRue, Professor of Homiletics, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey Jacqueline J. Lewis, Senior Minister, Middle Collegiate Church, New York City, New York Katherine Willis Pershey, Pastor of First Congregational Church, Western Springs, Illinois Paul Rock, Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, Kansas Martin Thielen, Pastor of First United Methodist Church, Cookeville, Tennessee Winnie Varghese, Priest and Director of Community Outreach at Trinity Wall Street, New York, New York

Hospitality Branding

Hospitality Branding
Author: Chekitan S. Dev
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0801465265

In recent years the brand has moved squarely into the spotlight as the key to success in the hospitality industry. Business strategy once began with marketing and incorporated branding as one of its elements; today the brand drives marketing within the larger hospitality enterprise. Not only has it become the chief means of attracting customers, it has, more broadly, become the chief organizing principle for most hospitality organizations. The never-ending quest for market share follows trend after trend, from offering ever more elaborate and sophisticated amenities to the use of social media as a marketing tool—all driven by the preeminence of the brand. Chekitan S. Dev’s award-winning research has appeared in leading journals including Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Journal of Marketing, and Harvard Business Review. He is the recipient of several major hospitality research and teaching awards. A former corporate executive with Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, he has served corporate, government, education, advisory, and private equity clients in more than forty countries as consultant, seminar leader, keynote speaker and expert witness. Hospitality Branding brings together the most important insights from the author’s many years of research and experience, all in a single, affordably priced volume (available in both print and eBook formats). Skillfully blending the knowledge of recent history, the wisdom of cutting-edge research, and promise of future trends, this book offers hospitality organizations the advice they need to survive and thrive in today’s competitive global business environment.

International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management

International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management
Author: Abraham Pizam
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1856177149

This encyclopedia covers all of the relevant issues in the field of hospitality management from both a sectoral level as well as a functional one. It's unique user-friendly structure enables readers to find exactly the information they require at a glance.