A Profile Of The Hospitality Industry Second Edition

Author : Betsy Bender Stringam
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781952538391

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A Profile of the Hospitality Industry, Second Edition by Betsy Bender Stringam Pdf

This book tells the history, organizational structure, and management strategies of the hospitality industry. The hospitality industry is a unique and diverse industry. This book tells the history, organizational structure, and management strategies of the hospitality industry. Traditionally an entrepreneurial business, the hospitality industry today includes organizations ranging from small independent cafes and inns to large multinational corporations. The author highlights key hotel, restaurant, and casino companies, and explains the concepts of franchising, consortia, and management contracts. The book divulges how the hospitality product is different from other industries: part service and part product, produced and consumed simultaneously, and the role of the customer as part of the service process. The book explains how perishable inventory and labor intensity affect hotels, restaurants, and casinos. The author also reviews policies that promote or restrict tourism and travel, guest and employee safety, labor regulations, food safety laws, and requirements for accommodations for customers with disabilities. This text explains key strategic management decisions of the hospitality industry. The author projects how global expansion and sustainability efforts are shaping the industry, but also warns of the ongoing threats of pandemics and terrorism to travel.

Author : Susan M. Walcott
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781951527471

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A Profile of the Furniture Manufacturing Industry, Second Edition by Susan M. Walcott Pdf

This book highlights the role of global networks, lean and green production methods, customized quality versus price competitiveness, online outreach along with showroom access, labor issues, and related factors that continue to compel location shifts and extensions of the furniture industry. The furniture industry serves as an indicator for the changing state of American manufacturing. A brief history of U.S. furniture manufacturing creates the context for continuing geographic shifts among Asian locations, foreign ownership impacts and global market considerations, as well as the demands of three significant domestic market demographics. The furniture industry is separated into its various parts from wood to metal, home to institutional markets. Government actions including tariffs, health, and environmental regulations are also considered. Based on numerous interviews and site visits, strategies of corporate survivors in the face of mergers, and emergence of new players are profiled to indicate practices for increasing adaptive capacity and marketing the appeal of “made here”. This book highlights the role of global networks, lean and green production methods, customized quality versus price competitiveness, online outreach along with showroom access, labor issues, and related factors that continue to compel location shifts and extensions of the furniture industry.

Author : Linda Herkenhoff
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781631579028

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A Profile of the Oil and Gas Industry, Second Edition by Linda Herkenhoff Pdf

We know that the people of Mesopotamia were using crude oil as a tar for building ships and houses as early as 3000 BC, so it is not by any means a new industry-but it is a volatile one. Oil and gas are important to every aspect of our economy yet this industry is distinguished by its combination of increasing demands and decreasing discovery volumes-and it is an industry shrouded in an environment of extremely volatile pricing. This book is a vital introduction to the oil and gas industry that focuses on history, operations, major companies, outside market forces, regulation, and the current challenges the industry faces. Such factors as finite natural resources, the environment, economics, geopolitics, and technology are also analyzed in detail. The focus on oil and gas is likely to continue to grow until efficient, environmentally safe alternate fuels become available. And because it's woven with complex relationships that are ever changing, this book is the best tool to have for a better understanding of this industry.

Author : Dawn M. Drake
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781953349316

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A Profile of the Farm Machinery Industry by Dawn M. Drake Pdf

This book examines farm machinery in the context of its history, corporations, outside market forces, regulations, and challenges and opportunities. The farm machinery industry is a complex sector of the global manufacturing economy that encompasses many companies, including those who that produce tractors, combines, planting equipment, tillage equipment, and irrigation systems. While the global industry is dominated by three full-line manufacturers (Deere and Company, Case New Holland, and the Allis-Gleaner Corporation), there are thousands of other companies, including many short-line manufacturers, that also dictate the nature of the industry. In recent years, equipment built by competitors from Asia have become more common in the farmstead landscape, capturing some of the market share U.S. manufacturers once dominated. This book examines farm machinery in the context of its history, corporations, outside market forces, regulations, and challenges and opportunities. The farm machinery industry, while contributing a small percentage to gross world product, is vitally important to another key sector of the economy—agriculture. In advanced economies, where the percentage of the labor force engaged in agriculture has been on the decline since World War II, high horsepower tractors and efficient harvesting systems are necessary to cultivate more acres with fewer workers to feed an ever-growing world population. Threats to profits in agriculture, such as natural disasters, climate change, and trade wars, increasingly challenge the profits and the viability of the farm machinery industry.

Author : Abraham Pizam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136439025

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International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management 2nd edition by Abraham Pizam Pdf

The International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management is the definitive reference work for any individual studying or working in the hospitality industry. There are 185 Hospitality Management degrees in the UK alone. This new edition updates and significantly revises twenty five per cent of the entries and has an additional twenty new entries. New online material makes it the most up-to-date and accessible hospitality management encyclopedia on the market. It covers all of the relevant issues in the field of hospitality management from a sectoral level (lodging, restaurants/food service, time-share, clubs and events) as well as a functional one (accounting and finance, marketing, strategic management, human resources, information technology and facilities management). Its unique, user-friendly structure enables readers to find exactly the information they require at a glance – whether they require broad detail that takes a more cross-sectional view across each subject field or more focused information that looks closely at specific topics and issues within the hospitality industry today.

Author : Willy Legrand,Philip Sloan,Joseph S. Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136298141

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Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry 2nd Ed by Willy Legrand,Philip Sloan,Joseph S. Chen Pdf

Sustainability is one of the single most important global issues facing the world. A clear understanding of the issues surrounding climate change, global warming, air and water pollution, ozone depletion, deforestation, the loss of biodiversity and global poverty is essential for every future manager in the hospitality industry. Present and future hospitality executives need to know how sustainable management systems can be integrated into their businesses while maintaining and hopefully improving the bottom line. Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry, second edition, is the only book available to introduce the students to economic, environmental and social sustainable issues specifically facing the industry as well as exploring ideas, solutions, and strategies of how to manage operations in a sustainable way. Since the first edition of this book there have been many important developments in this field and this second edition has been updated in the following ways: updated content to reflect recent issues and trends including hotel energy solutions and green hotel design two new chapters on 'Sustainable Food' and 'Social Entrepreneurship and Social Value' updated international case studies throughout to explore key issues and show real life operational responses to sustainability within the hospitality industry. New case studies on growth hotel development markets, Asia and the Middle East new practical exercises throughout to apply your knowledge to real-life sustainability scenarios. This accessible and comprehensive account of Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry is essential reading for all students and future managers.

Author : Ahmed Hassanien,Crispin Dale,Alan Clarke,Michael W. Herriott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136439377

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Hospitality Business Development by Ahmed Hassanien,Crispin Dale,Alan Clarke,Michael W. Herriott Pdf

Hospitality Business Development analyzes and evaluates the different aspects of business growth routes and development processes in the international hospitality industry. It considers the essential features of the strategic business context, in which any hospitality organization operates, and: • explores the essential requirements and challenges of hospitality business development, and the implications which these present for hospitality operators. • explains how differentiation and innovation can become key to organizational success and provides you with the all of the skills you need to implement your own business development • examines the shifting nature of demand, evaluating consumers’ behaviour and relating the principles of customer centricity to the business development function • is packed with case studies and industry related examples, which cover a broad range of hospitality sectors including in-flight catering, holiday homes, guest houses, licensed retail, catering, international restaurants and hotels, ensuring you have a thorough understanding of the international hospitality business development . Hospitality Business Development equips students and aspiring hospitality managers with the necessary knowledge, expertise and skills in business development. This book is a must-read for any one studying or working in the hospitality industry.

Author : Betsy Bender Stringam,Charles G. Partlow
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781606499191

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A Profile of the Hospitality Industry by Betsy Bender Stringam,Charles G. Partlow Pdf

The hospitality industry is one of the world's largest and oldest industries. A Profile of the Hospitality Industry provides an inside look to the strategies of this industry. This book reviews the developments, challenges, and opportunities for the hotel, restaurant, foodservice and gaming industries. The hospitality industry is unique in many aspects which makes this book a must read for hospitality students, business students and those interested in management strategy.

Author : Alan T. Stutts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Hospitality industry
ISBN : 1119108284

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Hotel and Lodging Management by Alan T. Stutts Pdf

Author : Helene von Magius Møgelhø
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781637420614

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Overtourism by Helene von Magius Møgelhø Pdf

Overtourism examines the increasingly important role of destination management and effective stakeholder engagement in order to maximize the economic contribution of tourism while avoiding the potential pitfalls of overtourism. Rapid growth in international tourism has led to the emergence of the overtourism phenomenon. It is a situation where high tourist numbers start to cause tensions with local residents and communities owing to what they consider to be negative impacts on their quality of life including overcrowding, congestion, housing shortages, and changes in the retail sector. Overtourism can occur in any type of destination be it urban or rural in a developed or developing country. The author does not consider a global reduction in international travel as a likely long-term solution to addressing overtourism. Rather, destinations should prepare for continuous growth in both international tourist arrivals and domestic tourism in the longer term. Overtourism can often be reversed or averted through effective destination management. This requires engaging with key stakeholders and the local community to ensure that the local residents’ quality of life is preserved while at the same time delivering a high-quality experience for visitors. The coronavirus pandemic has provided destinations with an opportunity to reflect and decide how they want to recover and become more resilient and sustainable in the long term.

Author : Michael Marlin
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781637420676

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Astrotourism by Michael Marlin Pdf

This book explores the growth of the astrotourism, identifies star seeker trends, how the stars have shaped civilizations, and the budding space tourism industry. In the span of a single lifetime, light pollution from Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) has severed our connection with the stars that we’ve had since the dawn of time. With the nocturnal biosphere significantly altered, light’s anthropogenic influence has compelled millions of people to seek out the last remaining dark skies. This book explores the growth of the astrotourism, identifies star seeker trends, how the stars have shaped civilizations, and the budding space tourism industry. Learn ways to develop a destination, find customers, and our relationship with the night sky. Meteor storms, eclipses, auroras, and other celestial phenomena have lured travelers for years and here the author expands the field of astrotourism with the inclusion of astronomical clocks, megaliths, and sundials, which track the movement of the stars.

Author : Virginia Murphy-Berman
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781949443226

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Enhancing Joy in Travel by Virginia Murphy-Berman Pdf

Why do so many people love to travel, but sometimes come away unhappy and disappointed in their trips? What can people in the travel industry do to prevent such discontent and promote optimal travel experiences? As a clinical psychologist and an avid traveler, I wanted to write a book that offers fresh perspectives on these questions. Readers will learn a new way of thinking about the nature of travel and about solutions to common travel problems. Strategies informed by psychological theory and research that travel providers can use to enhance their clients’ positive travel encounters are given. Questions explored include: How do travelers’ personalities impact travel satisfaction? Why can seeking perfection in travel and trying to keep up with the often-unrealistic depictions of travel on social media undermine travel joy? What can be done to overcome travel fatigue and boredom? How can travelers prepare for trips in ways that spark excitement and receptivity for what is to come? And what can enhance the enjoyment trips give travelers long after their trips are over? This book is a must read for those in the hospitality and travel industry (both students and professionals) and general readers who want to better understand the complexities of the psychology of travel. It will serve as an invaluable guide to all who would like to learn what it means to travel well.

Author : Michael Chibili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Hospitality industry
ISBN : 1138135216

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Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry by Michael Chibili Pdf

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry deals with a range of topics: commencing with a basic introduction to management accounting; and ending with capital investment decisions. The objective of the book is to provide an introduction to the basic management accounting concepts and applications based on Einstein's maxim that 'everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler'. This choice of simplification is due to the fact that the level of English used in the text takes into consideration that a good proportion of students in hotel or tourism-related education use English as a second language. The approach used in the book makes it very comprehensible. It takes the reader clearly and logically through the concepts and applications of hospitality management accounting. Online extras Additional study and teaching materials can be found on www.hospitalitymanagement.noordhoff.nl

Author : Abraham Pizam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136439032

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International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management by Abraham Pizam Pdf

* 25% updated with significant revisions and 20 new entries ensuring that students have the most up-to-date Hospitality Management information on the market * An academically credible source of core information written by experts from around the world to help students clarify basic concepts and ensure their understanding is correct * User friendly and accessible so that students can quickly and easily locate the information that they require

Author : Fevzi Okumus,Levent Altinay,Prakash Chathoth,Mehmet Ali Koseoglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351188494

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Strategic Management for Hospitality and Tourism by Fevzi Okumus,Levent Altinay,Prakash Chathoth,Mehmet Ali Koseoglu Pdf

Strategic Management for Hospitality and Tourism is an essential text for both intermediate and advanced learners aspiring to build their knowledge related to the theories and perspectives on the topic. The book provides critical and analytical insights on contemporary theoretical models and management practices while enhancing the learning process through worked examples and cases applied to the hospitality and tourism setting. This new edition highlights the rapidly changing socio-economic and political global landscape and addresses the cultural and socio-economic complexities of hospitality and tourism organizations in the new era. It has been fully updated to include: A new chapter on finance, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and leadership as well as new content on globalisation, experience economy, crisis management, consumer power, developing service quality, innovation and implementation of principles. New features to aid understanding of the application of theory, and spur critical thinking and decision making. New international case studies with reflective questions throughout the book from both SME’s and large-scale businesses. Updated online resources including PowerPoint presentations, additional case studies and exercises, and web links to aid both teaching and learning. Highly illustrated and in full colour design, this book is essential reading for all future hospitality and tourism managers.