In Search of Hospitality
1st Edition
Published on 11. October 2013
320 pages
978-1-135-39046-4 (ISBN)
Description
'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.
'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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
14,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-39046-4 (9781135390464)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Conrad Lashley | Alison Morrison
In Search of Hospitality
Book
05/2000
Butterworth-Heinemann
€179.50
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Persons
Conrad Lashley, Alison Morrison
Content
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
