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- English
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In Search of Hospitality
About this book
'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. This title brings together an extraordinary collection of leading researches and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history, thereby providing a broad and comprehensive perspective on hospitality. It focuses the study of hospitality across the range of human, social and economic settings, and provides a reference point for the future development of hospitality as an academic discipline.Harnessing this wide range of viewpoints, 'In Search of Hospitality' offers an intellectually stimulating and innovative approach to the study of hospitality. It is ideal for students and academics within both the applied fields of hospitality and tourism studies and the general fields of business studies and behaviour sciences. It is also suitable for practitioners in hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses, for whom it provides a provocative and informative guide to understanding and providing hospitality within a commercial context.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About the Authors
- 1 Towards a theoretical understanding
- 2 An anthropology of hospitality
- 3 The philosophy of hospitableness
- 4 The hospitality trades: a social history
- 5 Putting up? Gender, hospitality and performance
- 6 Home and commercialized hospitality
- 7 Mediated meanings of hospitality: television personality food programmes
- 8 Hospitality and hospitality management
- 9 Managing hospitality operations
- 10 Social scientific ways of knowing hospitality
- 11 Humour in commercial hospitality settings
- 12 Consuming hospitality: learning from post-modernism?
- 13 Consuming hospitality on holiday
- 14 Working in the hospitality industry
- 15 Education for hospitality
- Index