Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes: Volume 5 Issue 2

The Canadian hotel industry: a roundtable discussion on challenges and trends

Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, Anthony Pollard, Rosanna Caira, Altaf Sovani, Paul Willie

This paper aims to provide a relevant backdrop for the Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) theme issue on the hotel industry of Canada, and to describe how the 2012…

Trends and sustainability in the Canadian tourism and hospitality industry

Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, Anthony Pollard, Valerie Chort, Chris Choi, Wanjohi Kibicho

This paper aims to address the key sustainability issues in Canada's tourism and hospitality industry.

Trends in the international hotel industry

Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, David McMillan, David Pantin, Martin Taller, Paul Willie

This paper aims to analyse the evolution, current challenges, best practices, and trends in the international hotel industry.

Innovations in hotel administration in Canada

Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, John Jarvis, Kristy Adams, Zhen Lu, Ameet Tyrewala

This paper aims to analyse challenges, trends and innovations in the hotel industry in Canada, focusing on large corporate hotels as well as small limited service hotels.

Challenges and innovations in hotel operations in Canada

Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, Fred Lawlor, J. Charles Grieco, Michel Savard, Michael Tarnowski

This paper aims to analyse key challenges Canadian hotels are facing, and to suggest innovative steps to make hotel operations in Canada more successful.

Trends in hotel investment and financial management in Canada

Paul Willie, Alam Pirani, Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, Altaf Sovani, Reza Davoodi

This paper aims to analyse trends related to hotel investment in Canada and propose innovative practices for the financial management of hotels.

Marketing Canadian hotels in the future

Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, Andrew Horsfield, Joanne Gellatly, Paul Willie, Altaf Sovani

This paper aims to analyse literature relevant to four imperative aspects of hotel marketing, to discuss current challenges and opportunities, and to make suggestions for…

The Canadian hotel industry: innovative solutions to secure the industry's future

Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena

This paper aims to present practical answers to the strategic question: “What innovations are needed in the Canadian hotel industry and how might they be implemented to secure the…

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