In Search of Hospitality

by Conrad Lashley (Editor), Alison Morrison (Editor)

Overview

'In Search of Hospitality' is a unique contribution to the study of hospitality, exploring the practice of hospitality across disciplines, and adopting an international perspective where appropriate.

'In Search of Hospitality':

*brings together an extraordinary collection of leading researches and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history, providing a truly global perspective on hospitality
* focuses the study of hospitality across the range of human, social and economic settings
* provides a reference point for the future development of hospitality as an academic discipline.

This text is ideal for students and academics in both the applied fields of hospitality and tourism studies, and general academic fields in business studies and behavioral sciences. For practitioners in hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses the text provides a provocative and informative guide to understanding and providing hospitality in commercial contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750645621
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/2000
Series:	Hospitality, Leisure, and Tourism Series
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Conrad Lashley, Alison Morrison

Table of Contents

Towards a theoretical understanding; An anthropology of hospitality; The philosophy of hospitableness; The hospitality trades: a social history; Putting up? Gender, hospitality and performance; Home and commercialised hospitality; Mediated meaning of hospitality; Hospitality and hospitality management; Managing hospitality operations; Social scientific ways of knowing hospitality; Humour in commercial hospitality settings; Consuming hospitality: learning from post-modernism?; Consuming hospitality on holiday; Working in Hospitality; Education for Hospitality

Editorial Reviews

...."Conrad Lashley & Alison Morrison have included chapters from an impressive range of hospitality & social science contributors" This book goes a long way to achieving its stated aim of opening up the field of debate & establishing hospitality management as a logitimate social science in its own right. The book is as eclectic as the subject that it seeks to explore, & it contain glimmerings that there is ewly-discovered depth in hospitality management as a social science that is worth a fresh & more integrated research effort. Perhaps academics of the future will remark that a more mature & credible hospitality agenda began here.
Hadyn Ingram, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

An excellent text for both hospitality students and Workers, 14 October, 2001
Reviewer: A reader from England
This book is an excellent example of what Hospitality books should be like. It gives different perspectives and arguments to most Hospitality books. The book is split in to 15 chapters. At the end of each chapter there are conclusions, Notes and References (most helpful). This book covers a broad range of subjects within the hospitality industry and at suprising depth. This book is a must for Hospitality Students at both degree level and at GNVQ. The Hospitality Students Bible. - reviews entered on amazon

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