A Global Perspective on the Hospitality and Tourism Industry

Dear Colleagues,

Hospitality and tourism are at the forefront of globalization development because of their mature, global, and highly competitive characteristics. Also, the pandemic brings the people-oriented concept back to the challenge list for the organization. While many acknowledge and understand this, little is understood or discussed the changes required to make people a central aspect of work and the workplace. For the hospitality and tourism sector, the emphasis is shifting to a co-creation process that involves engagement from both consumers and employees.

The papers collected in this Special Issue will incorporate several global sustainability issues into hospitality and tourism. They tackle and expand various research methodologies, including theoretical approaches such as theory building, empirical studies encompassing surveys, and the data analytics approach. They connect hospitality and tourism to information management, economics, and social sciences. To highlight its importance and provide a platform for disseminating state-of-the-art advances in this field. Topics include, but are not limited to:

1) hospitality and tourism under globalization

2) smart and connected hospitality and tourism

3) social and cultural dimensions of hospitality and tourism

4) entrepreneurship case studies from a wide range of hospitality and tourism sectors

5) people-oriented and perspective in hospitality and tourism

6) crisis response and recovery for the hospitality and tourism industry

7) workforce in hospitality and tourism industry

8) hospitality and tourism leadership 

9) sustainability issues in hospitality

10) service and performance

These topics will add to the emerging field of hospitality and tourism research. These findings will contribute to implementing and assessing practical, sustainable hospitality and tourism sector work practices to serve as a basis for future research into the hospitality and tourism management field.

Dr. Hak-Seon Kim
Dr. Hyun-Jeong(Helena) Ban
Dr. Wang Jue
Dr. Armigon Ravshanovich Akhmedov
Guest Editors

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