Literature Review of Hospitality Industry - 5422 Words

Vol. 1, No. 1. ISSN: 1473-8376 www.hlst.ltsn.ac.uk/johlste Finding the Hospitality Industry Paul Slattery (paul.slattery@drkw.com) Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein 20 Fenchurch Street, London, UK. DOI:10.3794/johlste.11.7 ï £ © Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education Abstract Some academics from the UK have published a conception of hospitality, which they argue is the basis for the understanding of the hospitality industry and for teaching and research in hospitality management (Brotherton, 1999; Lashley, 2000; Lashley and Morrison (eds.), 2000). This paper is in two parts. First, I will review the fundamental ideas proposed in these publications to illustrate that they degrade the hospitality industry. In the second†¦show more content†¦(Lashley and Morrison (eds.), 2000:19) I think that an indication of Selwyn’s concept of hospitality can be gained by applying it to classify relationships. For instance, Osama bin Laden can be described as having been a guest of Mullah Mohamed Omar and his Taliban who provided hospitality to their guest and his associates in alQaeda. The hosts and guests shared the same moral universe and the hosts considered that they had a moral obligation to protect their guests despite the enormity of the case agains t them and their condemnation by most of the rest of humankind. This application illustrates that the social domain presents a loose perspective on social relationships that are not specific to venues as are the commercial and private domains. Thus, the social domain is logically different from the other two. One implication of this for understanding the hospitality business is that the social domain becomes relegated to the status of interesting background material, like being able to speak a foreign language or to know about plumbing. 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