In Search of Hospitality - Theoretical Perspectives and Debates

Informationen zum Autor Conrad Lashley, Alison Morrison Zusammenfassung A study of hospitality, exploring the practice of hospitality across disciplines, and adopting an international perspective where appropriate. It brings together leading researchers and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Summary

A study of hospitality, exploring the practice of hospitality across disciplines, and adopting an international perspective where appropriate. It brings together leading researchers and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history.

Product details

• Authors: Conrad Morrison Lashley
• Assisted by: Conrad Lashley (Editor), Lashley Conrad (Editor), Alison Morrison (Editor), Alison J. Morrison (Editor), Morrison Alison (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2000
• EAN: 9780750645621
• ISBN: 978-0-7506-4562-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism
• Subjects: Education and learning > Vocational and technical college books; Guides > Law, job, finance; Hotel & catering trades, Hotel, hospitality and catering trades