1st Edition

Handbook of Hospitality Operations and IT

Edited By Peter Jones Copyright 2008

    Handbook of Hospitality Operations and IT provides an authoritative resource for
    critical reviews of research into both operations and IT management. Internationally
    renowned scholars provide in-depth essays and explanations of case studies, to illustrate
    how practices and concepts can be applied to the hospitality industry.

    The depth and coverage of each topic is unprecedented. A must-read for hospitality researchers and educators, students and industry practitioners.

    Operations Management theory (Jones); Hospitality systems (Ball); The ‘Servicescape’ (Namasivayam & Lin); Role of the hospitality customer (Canziani); Waiting lines and self-service (Lambert & Wonjae Lee); The service encounter (Sparks & Weber); e-Distribution (O’Connor); ICT and Hospitality Operations (Whitelaw); Outsourcing (Promsivapallop); Operational Performance (Lockwood); Revenue management(Shoemaker); Loss Control and Security (Jones); Managing labour productivity (Christie Mill); Quality management (Affify); Innovation management (Ottenbacher); Chain Operations (Reynolds & DiPietro); Crisis Management (Moggendorf); Environmental Management (Kirk)

    Biography

    Peter Jones