The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management

At last, a comprehensive, systematically organized Handbook which gives a reliable, yet critical guide to all aspects of one of the world's leading industries: the hospitality industry. The book focuses on key aspects of the hospitality management curriculum, research, and practice bringing together leading scholars throughout the world. Each essay examines a theme or functional aspect of hospitality management and offers a critical overview of the principle ideas and issues that have contributed, and continue to contribute, within it.

Key Features

• Examines the nature of hospitality and hospitality management
• Looks at the relationship of hospitality management to tourism, leisure, and education provision Presents the current state of development of the international hospitality business
• Addresses the core activities of food, beverage, and accommodation management
• Provides research strategies in hospitality management Innovation and entrepreneurship trends
• Explores the role of information technology

The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management constitutes a single source of reference which will satisfy the information needs of both specialists in the field, and non-specialists who require a contemporary introduction to the hospitality industry and its analysis.