| Description |
xviii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
TOUR 2005 : The Hospitality Experience ; Ebook
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| Contents |
1. Towards a theoretical understanding / Conrad Lashley -- 2. An anthropology of hospitality / Tom Selwyn -- 3. The philosophy of hospitableness / Elizabeth Telfer -- 4. The hospitality trades: a social history / John K. Walton -- 5. Putting up? Gender, hospitality and performance / Jane Darke and Craig Gurney -- 6. Home and commercialized hospitality / Paul Lynch and Doreen MacWhannell -- 7. Mediated meanings of hospitality: television personality food programmes / Sandie Randall -- 8. Hospitality and hospitality management / Bob Brotherton and Roy C. Wood -- 9. Managing hospitality operations / Andrew Lockwood and Peter Jones -- 10. Social scientific ways of knowing hospitality / David Botterill -- 11. Humour in commercial hospitality settings / Stephen Ball and Keith Johnson -- 12. Consuming hospitality: learning from post-modernism? / Alistair Williams -- 13. Consuming hospitality on holiday / Hazel Andrews -- 14. Working in the hospitality industry / Yvonne Guerrier and Amel Adib -- 15. Education for hospitality / David Airey and John Tribe |
| Summary |
"Harnessing this wide range of viewpoints, In Search of Hospitality offers an 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 behaviour sciences. It is also suitable for practitioners in hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses, for whom it provides a guide to understanding and providing hospitality within a commercial context."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Hospitality -- Philosophy.
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Hospitality industry -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy and civilization.
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Hospitality -- Social aspects.
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Hospitality industry -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Lashley, Conrad.
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Morrison, Alison J.
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| LC no. |
00710438 |
| ISBN |
0750645628 : |
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