International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management: Volume 11 Issue 4

Is recruitment the millennium time bomb for the industry worldwide?

Sarah Powell, David Wood

This interview with David Wood of the HCIMA highlights his belief that recruitment and staffing are going to be the big problems of the new millennium. With hospitality perceived…

Hospitality: a framework for a millennial review

Hadyn Ingram

Such are the breadth and diversity of the hospitality industry, that a millennial review requires a specific focused perspective. This article proposes a triangular framework for…

The future of small firms in the hospitality industry

Alison Morrison, Rhodri Thomas

This paper provides a wide‐ranging review of what is currently understood about the management and development of small firms in the hospitality industry, with particular…

Multi‐unit management in the hospitality industry: a late twentieth century phenomenon

Peter Jones

In the next millennium there will be more large firms in the hospitality industry, and these large firms will get larger. But despite the fact that we have had such chains for…

Towards a definitive view of the nature of hospitality and hospitality management

Bob Brotherton

Explores the issues lying at the very heart of the endeavour academic researchers and industrial practitioners working in the hospitality field are engaged in; the essence of what…

Theory and reality of interdisciplinary research

Angela Roper, Maureen Brookes

Argues the case for interdisciplinary research in hospitality management. Education in the industry, by and large, does take this more holistic stance. Using a case illustrates…

On making silk purses: developing reflective practitioners in hospitality management education

Conrad Lashley

Objectives being set by governmental, educational and industrial bodies suggest that future managers need to be reflective practitioners, and this issue will have to be addressed…

Vocational education: challenges for hospitality management in the new millennium

Mike Rimmington

Puts forward the author’s view of key issues affecting hospitality education into the new millennium. Issues identified as particularly impacting on UK centres are graduate…