In Search of Hospitality
Author:   Conrad Lashley ,  Alison Morrison
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780750645621


Pages:   318
Publication Date:   01 May 2000
Format:   Hardback
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'In Search of Hospitality' is a unique contribution to the study of hospitality, exploring the practice of hospitality across disciplines, and adopting an international perspective where appropriate. 'In Search of Hospitality': *brings together an extraordinary collection of leading researches and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history, providing a truly global perspective on hospitality * focuses the study of hospitality across the range of human, social and economic settings * provides a reference point for the future development of hospitality as an academic discipline. This text is ideal for students and academics in both the applied fields of hospitality and tourism studies, and general academic fields in business studies and behavioral sciences. For practitioners in hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses the text provides a provocative and informative guide to understanding and providing hospitality in commercial contexts.

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Author:   Conrad Lashley ,  Alison Morrison
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780750645621


ISBN 10:   0750645628
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   01 May 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Towards a theoretical understanding; An anthropology of hospitality; The philosophy of hospitableness; The hospitality trades: a social history; Putting up? Gender, hospitality and performance; Home and commercialised hospitality; Mediated meaning of hospitality; Hospitality and hospitality management; Managing hospitality operations; Social scientific ways of knowing hospitality; Humour in commercial hospitality settings; Consuming hospitality: learning from post-modernism?; Consuming hospitality on holiday; Working in Hospitality; Education for Hospitality

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