The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management

By: Brundrett, Mark

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412900255
• ISBN13: 9781412900256
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.1" x 9.7"