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The Scholarship reflects Ken Hom’s commitment to higher education, his belief that students should have a voice on important issues facing the hospitality industry and his dedication to promoting better understanding of Asia’s food culture. The scholarship is open to students who [...]

Visit Hotel News Now for great articles on the hotel and tourism industry and conference recaps from countries throughout Europe- a useful resource for both professors and students. Visit Hotel News Now

As we know, the pandemic is having unequal impacts across the hospitality workforce. From General Managers who have picked up front desk shifts or night audit rounds and front line staff on furlough, there are a multitude of factors impacting the well-being of everyone involved [...]

Human Resource Management in Hospitality Cases adopts a practical case-based approach to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills in future hospitality managers. Using tried-and-tested real-life scenarios, this book thoroughly prepares hospitality students for a career in the field. Chapters are comprised of 75 short vignettes, [...]

Bouncing back or bouncing forward in tourism and hospitality and if ‘forward’, then how? Tough questions to answer in a depressed tourism sector, but there are some ways out of this -  I have asked experts within the World Panel on Sustainability in Hospitality; the feedback, ideas and recommendations [...]

“A World of Change in Hospitality” Together with colleagues from the Hotel Management School Maastricht, our colleague Prof. Dr. Gabriel Laeis and myself have put on Europe’s first 24hr Sustainable Hospitality hackathon last week, culminating with a keynote from the Director of the International Tourism [...]