International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management: Volume 16 Issue 3

Trends in food safety management in Victoria, Australia

Linda Margaret Roberts, Margaret Deery

This paper examines the implementation of recent changes to Victorian food safety legislation with particular reference to the implications for the foodservice industry. The…

Can consumers be predicted or are they unmanageable?

Jonathan Richardson Bareham

This paper examines how well theories of consumer behaviour allow prediction of the consumption of tourism and hospitality products and services. Given the changing demographic…

Travel Inn: everything you want for a good night's sleep – 100 per cent satisfaction guarantee or your money back

David McCaskey, Stuart Symes

In the UK, following a period of exponential growth, the budget hotel market is maturing. In the classic product/service lifecycle model, this phase of development in a market is…

What makes hotel values in the UK? A hedonic valuation model

Sherif Roubi, David Litteljohn

The purpose of this paper is to develop a hedonic valuation model for hotel properties in the UK. Regression and hotel property transactions in the UK between 1996 and 2002 are…

Who's kicking whom? Employees' orientations to work

Emma Martin

Despite the renowned poor employment practices across the hospitality industry recent analysis of the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey reported higher levels of job…

Questioning the myth of the Chinese learner

Kevin Nield

This paper considers the learning, teaching and assessment preferences of the Chinese learner in the context of distance learning. To do this a literature search of the teaching…

International tourism networks

Alison Morrison, Paul Lynch, Nick Johns

Much of tourism development is predicated on the successful working of organisations alignment in the form of partnerships or “networks”. However, tourism networks have been…