By A.J Singh, Ph.D. University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley and Bing Wang, Ph.D., Harvard University – Graduate School of Design Introduction Among all real estate asset types, hospitality real estate assets, together with retail, have witnessed the most disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic. As one of the most service-intensive real estate asset types, the […]
By Kwanglim Seo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, Manoa – School of Travel Industry Management Introduction It is not surprising that an asset-light business model (ALBM) has fundamentally reshaped the hotel industry, because it focuses primarily on operations rather than investments in physical assets. Recently, shared economy-based businesses like Uber and Airbnb, which thrive […]
By Ozgur Ozdemir, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas – William F. Harrah College of Hospitality The involvement of women in the U.S. workforce was very limited in the early 20th century, and those who worked were young and unmarried. The Census Bureau categorized that only 20 percent of women were recognized as “gainful workers” […]
By Murat Kizildag, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Central Florida – Rosen College of Hospitality Management If we can do everything virtually in the world, why can’t we move the financial nodes and the entire network just as easily? With the enormous surge in distributed trust and decentralized platforms enabled by blockchain systems, the answer […]
By Melih Madanoglu, Ph.D., Professor of Hospitality Management and Michael A. Leven Endowed Chair, Kennesaw State University – Michael A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality, Michael J. Coles College of Business, and Ersem Karadag, Ph.D., Professor of Hospitality and Tourism, Robert Morris University – School of Business Owing to their profit-oriented nature, companies […]
By: Arun Upneja, Ph.D. “A View From the Top” may have been the title of this Boston Hospitality Review issue on Leadership if we weren’t where we are today. Over the past year since the pandemic struck, we have seen and heard leaders, from chefs to CEOs, in this most trying of times, working to […]
By: Dr. Taylor Peyton and Priyanko Guchait (Co-Editors) If there were ever a moment for great leadership and innovation in hospitality, that time is now. The COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions have brought unprecedented change to the world, and to our industry. In response to the challenges ahead, this Special Issue on Leadership for Boston […]
By: Lori J. Sipe, Associate Professor, Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, San Diego State University Introduction Prior to the pandemic, senior managers were increasingly cognizant of the importance of innovation, broadly conceived, as key to competing in the experience economy. In a recent study of leadership teams in a hospitality and tourism marketplace, more than 80% […]
By: Chris Mumford, Founder, Cervus Leadership Consulting July 26, 1945. The British public, having gone to the polls on July 5th, awaits the delayed count of the national election. Victory in Europe has been celebrated two months previously, and the war in the Pacific is nearing its conclusion with Japan being issued an ultimatum for surrender. […]
Editor’s Note: The original version of this article was posted on April 5, 2021 in Hotel News Resource. We feature a modified version of that work in this Special Issue of BHR. By: Sloan Dean, CEO and President, Remington Hotels I learned early in my career that humans can handle bad news; they just can’t […]