In Search of Hospitality

In Search of Hospitality

In Search of Hospitality

In Search of Hospitality

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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.

This title brings together an extraordinary collection of leading researches and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history, thereby providing a broad and comprehensive perspective on hospitality. It focuses the study of hospitality across the range of human, social and economic settings, and provides a reference point for the future development of hospitality as an academic discipline. Harnessing this wide range of viewpoints, ‘In Search of Hospitality' offers an intellectually stimulating and innovative approach to the study of hospitality. It is ideal for students and academics within both the applied fields of hospitality and tourism studies and the general fields of business studies and behavior sciences. It is also suitable for practitioners in hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses, for whom it provides a provocative and informative guide to understanding and providing hospitality within a commercial context.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135390532
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/11/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 10 MB

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
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