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Tourism and Hospitality Research
About the Journal
Tourism and Hospitality Research is firmly established as a leading and authoritative journal for tourism and hospitality researchers and professionals.
Tourism and Hospitality Research covers:
- Hospitality and tourism operations
- Marketing and consumer behaviour
- HR management
- eTourism
- eTravel
- Planning and development
- Performance and financial management
- Strategic implications
- Environmental aspects
- Government policy
- Forecasting and prediction
- Revenue management
- Impact assessment and mitigation
- Globalisation
- Research methodologies
- Leisure and culture
Tourism and Hospitality Research publishes detailed, authoritative:
- Applied Research with significant implications for tourism and hospitality practice from leading schools of tourism and hospitality, research institutes and universities, worldwide.
- Industry Case Studies from practitioners worldwide, detailing their practical experiences, the problems faced and the lessons learned.
- Conference Reports covering the most current and relevant topics in tourism and hospitality.
- Practitioner Briefings written by expert practitioners and sharing thought-provoking ideas on the challenges facing the tourism and hospitality industry today.
- Book Reviews providing a 'thumbnail' of best practice in the field.
You need to be confident that this information is authoritative, accessible and cutting edge. Thus the journal is guided by an International Editorial Board of leading academics, practitioners and consultants from around the world. It is edited by Professor Andrew Lockwood, based at the School of Management, University of Surrey - a leading institution on research of tourism and hospitality, and a World Tourism Organization Centre for Education and Training.
The journal publishes only submissions that have been subjected to double-blind peer review, ensuring that it publishes only the genuinely useful, challenging and innovative research articles and case studies.
For more information, please see the journal webpages:
www.palgrave-journals.com/thr
The Editorial Board
Tourism and Hospitality Research is guided by an eminent international Editorial Board comprising leading experts in the field.
Editors
Managing Editor
Professor Andrew Lockwood, Forte Professor of Management and Deputy Head (Academic Planning and Quality Assurance), School of Management, University of Surrey, UK
Hospitality Editor
Dr Yuksel Ekinci, Senior Lecturer in Hospitality Management, School of Management, University of Surrey, UK
Tourism Editor
Dr Graham Miller, Senior Lecturer in Management, School of Management, University of Surrey, UK
Practice Section Editor
Professor Peter Jones, ITCA Professor of Production and Operations Management, School of Management Studies for the Service Sector, University of Surrey, UK
Book Reviews Editor
Dr Sumeetra Thozhur, Lecturer in Hospitality Management, School of Management Studies for the Service Sector, University of Surrey, UK
Editor Emeritus
Professor Richard Butler, Professor of International Tourism, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, UK
Editorial Board
Dr Levent Altinay, Reader in Strategic Management in the Service Industry Department of HLTM, Business School, Oxford Brookes University. 01865 483 832. laltinay@brokkes.ac.uk
Dr William C Gartner, Tourism Centre, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr C Michael Hall, Centre for Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Professor David C Harrison, School of Business, University of North London, UK
Professor Robert Johnston, Professor in Operations Management, Warwick Business School, UK
Dr Olympia Kyriakidou, Department of Business Administration, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece
Dr Janne Jørgensen Liburd, Ph.D., Institut for Fagsprog, Kommunikation og Informationsvidenskab, Syddansk Universitet, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, DK-6700 Esbjerg, Tlf. +45 6550 1576, Fax +45 6550 1091, E-mail: liburd@sitkom.sdu.dk
Dr Alison Morrison, Senior Lecturer, The Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde, UK
Dr Peter Murphy, School of Tourism and Hospitality, La Trobe University, Australia
Professor Reidar Mykletun, PhD Dean, The Norwegian School of Hotel Management, Stavanger, Norway
Professor Michael Olson, PhD Professor of Strategic Management, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA; and Director of Research, International Hotel and Restaurant Association, France
Dr Michael Ottenbacher, Associate Professor, Faculty of Hospitality, San Diego State University, USA
Dr Brent Ritchie, Senior Lecturer in Tourism, Director of the Centre for Tourism Research, University of Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
Dr Angela Roper, Principal Lecturer in Strategy and Business Development, School of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Philippe Rossiter, Chief Executive, HCIMA, UK
Professor Hugh Somerville, Visiting Professor, School of Management, University of Surrey, UK and formerly Head of Environment & Sustainable Business, British Airways
Professor Haiyan Song, Professor and Associate Director, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom Hong Kong
Dr Beverly Sparks, School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Australia
Professor Geoffrey Wall, Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr David B Weaver, Professor, School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management, University of South Carolina, USA
Editorial Office
Rosalind Pyne
Business Development Editor
Palgrave Macmillan Journals
Houndmills, Basingstoke
Hampshire, RG21 6XS, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)1256 303524
Fax: +44 (0)1256 353774
Email:r.pyne@palgrave.com
Notes for Contributors
You can view the notes for contributors at:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/thr/author_instructions.html
Archive
You can view the full archive, including a sample issue free online, at the THR webpages: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/thr/archive/index.html
About the Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher, serving learning and scholarship in higher education and the professional world. We publish textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. Our programme focuses on the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business.
As part of the Macmillan Group, we represent an unbroken tradition of 150 years of independent academic publishing, continually reinventing itself for the future.
http://www.palgrave.com/
Article titles from the first volume
Volume 1: Issue 1.
Academic Papers
'Education for tourism East meets West' - David Airey
'Researching human resource management in the hospitality industry: The need for new agenda?' - Conrad Lashley and Sandra Watson
'Television representations of food: A case study' - Sandie Randall
'A study of management practices and competencies within effective organisations in the Irish tourism industry' - Tony Lenehan
Practice paper
'The Palace Hotel: Case study -When is the customer wrong?' - Jeffrey B Catrett
Book reviews
The Management of Small Tourism and Hospitality Firms - Luke Pittaway
Grand Hotels - Haydn Ingram
Volume 1: Issue 2
Academic papers
'Quality implementation in selected UK hotels: Perspectives and future challenges' - Denis Harrington
'Host attitudes towards guests in the home stay sector' - Paul Lynch
'Hotel managerial ownership and firm performance: An empirical investigation' - Zheng Gu and Yu Qian
'Guest houses: The emergence of a new tourist accommodation type in the South African tourism industry' - Gustav Visser and Konrad Van Huyssteen
Practice papers
'Focus on Productivity, Hotel productivity: The McKinsey Global Institute study' - Peter Jones
'Re-defining the debate on hospitality productivity' - Michael Riley
'Productivity performance in UK hotels' - Mark Dickens
Volume 1: Issue 3
Comment
'A new agenda for researching hospitality HRM: Comment on Lashley and Watson' - Peter Haynes
Academic papers
'Augmenting the range of hotel selection attributes: Perceptions of managers and customers of three- to five-star UK hotels compared' - Roger Callan
'A preliminary investigation into the transition and utilisation of hospitality graduates in SMEs' - R J Holden and S M Jameson
'A methodology for researching a sensitive issue: Gay men, sexuality discrimination and the hospitality industry' - Trevor Laffin
'Should accommodation providers pay for the Olympics? A critique of the Sydney bed tax' - Larry Dwyer and Peter Forsyth
Practice papers
'Launch of 'Tomorrow's Tourism' - Bob Cotton
'The service firm life cycle' - Jonathan Langston
'The future development of the UK hospitality industry: The role of the British Hospitality Association' - Alan Parker
Volume 1: Issue 4
Academic papers
'Tourism student perceptions of a travel agency career' - Stephen w Litvin
'Action research: An essential tool for hospitality management education?' - Conrad Lashley
'Do hotel grading inspections assess what customers and hotel managers perceive to be important? An innovative assertion' - Roger Callan
'Teams and teamworking in hotels' - Hadyn Ingram and Terry Desombre
Practice papers
'Consortia: How far can they go towards helping independent hotels compete with chains?' - Alison Dundjerovic
Conference report
8th CHME Hospitality Research Conference - Andrew Lockwood