Global Cases on Hospitality Industry
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Global Cases on Hospitality Industry

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Global Cases on Hospitality Industry

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Get a comprehensive research-based look at real life hospitality industry issues from leaders in the field Global Cases on Hospitality Industry is a comprehensive examination into hospitality issues around the world. This detailed look at the industry's dynamics uses an international perspective that provides reader understanding by spanning several strategic and functional areas in management practices. Leading academics, trainers, and consultants from around the globe offer research-based perspectives on real life issues in this competitive industry. This important text extensively explores various aspects of the industry from both Asian and Western countries, providing important insights into policymaking, research, consulting, and teaching. Global Cases on Hospitality Industry presents extensively-researched illustrative case studies and accounts of revealing management practices from experts around the world. This book explains both the positive and negative impact of certain real life policy and management decisions in various aspects of the industry. This text discusses topics such as marketing, human resources, strategy, entrepreneurship, the use of technology, and ethics, using inside looks into different hospitality and travel and tourism companies. The book includes numerous figures and tables to clearly illustrate research data. Topics in Global Cases on Hospitality Industry include:

  • consumer marketing research
  • price promotions
  • consumer behaviors
  • bed and breakfast expectation analysis
  • assessment of service quality
  • company organizational structure
  • labor productivity
  • human resource issues
  • franchise restaurants impact around the world
  • tour operator strategies
  • similarity of problems between the hospitality and tourism industries
  • heritage tourism
  • societal effects of tourism development
  • ethical challenges
  • and much more!

Global Cases on Hospitality Industry is essential reading for hospitality management educators, students, trainers, and researchers in services management.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781136452390
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Half Title
  3. Full Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents 
  7. About the Editor
  8. Contributors
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Chapter 1. Culture and Its Impact on International Service Management: Exploring Global Consumers’ Different Service Perceptions and Preferences in the International Hospitality Industry
  12. Chapter 2. Effectiveness of Price Discount Levels and Formats in Service Industries
  13. Chapter 3. Leisure: Meaning and Impact on Travel Behavior
  14. Chapter 4. The Bed-and-Breakfast Experience: An Analysis of Hosts’ and Guests’ Expectations
  15. Chapter 5. Searching for Critical Success Factors: A Dimension-Specific Assessment of Service Quality and Its Relationship with Customer Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions in Fast-Food Restaurants
  16. Chapter 6. Experience-Based Category Expectations in Service Quality Research and Management
  17. Chapter 7. The Influence of Empowerment on Organizational Success: A Case Study on Flight Centre
  18. Chapter 8. A Macroanalysis of Labor Productivity As a Value Driver in the Lodging Industry
  19. Chapter 9. Human Resources Initiatives in Designing and Developing Value-Delivery Systems in the Hospitality Industry
  20. Chapter 10. Emotional Labor Among the Frontline Employees of the Hotel Industry in India
  21. Chapter 11. Understanding the Impact of Situational Components in Hospitality Retailing: The Case of Irish Theme Pubs
  22. Chapter 12. Internationalization of Services: The Global Impact of U.S. Franchise Restaurants
  23. Chapter 13. The Strategic Behavior of German Tour Operators in Croatia
  24. Chapter 14. Working Capital in Hospitality Sector: A Case of Maruti Hotels
  25. Chapter 15. Entrepreneurship in Indian Hotel Industry: Financial and Strategic Perspective
  26. Chapter 16. Hospitality and Tourism: International Industries Experiencing Common Problems
  27. Chapter 17. The Heritage Tourism of George Town, Penang: Setting the Right Tourism Culture
  28. Chapter 18. Effects of Tourism Development on the Local Poor People: A Case Study in Taibai Region China
  29. Chapter 19. Barriers to Hotel Chain Development in China
  30. Chapter 20. Employee Behavioral Intentions Toward Adoption of Information and Communication Technology
  31. Chapter 21. Improving the Effectiveness of Hotel Loyalty Programs through Data Mining
  32. Chapter 22. Performance Evaluation of Worldwide Hotel Industry Using the Data Envelopment Analysis
  33. Chapter 23. Ethics in the Hospitality Industry: An Applied Model
  34. Chapter 24. The Ethical Challenges of Managing Pilgrimages to the Holy Land
  35. Chapter 25. State of Practice of Ethics in the Hotel Industry in India: Some Conclusions
  36. Chapter 26. Work Values of Chinese Food-Service Managers
  37. Index