The Routledge Handbook of Hospitality Studies

This Handbook encourages both the study of hospitality as human phenomenon and as an industrial activity embracing the service of food, drink, and accommodation.

Conrad Lashley holds the Professorship in Hospitality Studies in the Academy of International Hospitality Research at Stenden University of Applied Science, the Netherlands. He has held professorial appointments at several UK universities, and regularly makes keynote research presentations in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Sweden as well as in Great Britain. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, and has published over a hundred papers in refereed research journals and sets of conference proceedings. He is currently co-editor of Research in Hospitality Management and Editor Emeritus of Hospitality & Society. He has worked extensively within the industry and generated commercial income from research and consultancy, as well as in-company management programmes. His research interests are principally concerned with understanding the meanings of hospitableness as a social phenomenon that has significance for commercial provision.

1. Introduction: research on hospitality: the story so far/ways of knowing hospitality Conrad Lashley Part I Disciplinary perspectives 2. Sociological perspectives on hospitality Roy C. Wood 3. The geographies of hospitality David Bell 4. Levinas hospitality and the feminine other Kim Meijer-van Wijk 5. The philosophies of hospitableness Elizabeth Telfer 6. The hospitality trades: a social history John K. Walton 7. Hospitality - a synthetic approach Bob Brotherton 8. Dinner sharing: casual hospitality in the collaborative economy Szilvia Gyimóthy 9. Religious perspectives on hospitality Conrad Lashley 10. Hospitality and social ties: an interdisciplinary reflexive journey for the psychology of hospitality Marcia Maria Cappellano dos Santos, Olga Araujo Perazzolo, Siloe Pereira and Isabel Baptista 11. Hospitalities: Circe writes back Judith Still 12. On the hospitality of cannibals Ruud Welten 13. An Asian ethics of hospitality: hospitality in Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist philosophy Martine Berenpas 14. Observing hospitality speech patterns Leanne Schreurs Part II Experiencing hospitality 15. Hospitality, migration and cultural assimilation: the case of the Irish in Australia Barry O'Mahoney 16. Women experience hospitality as travelers and leaders Judi Brownell 17. Hospitality employment: the good, the bad, and the ugly Shobana Nair Partington 18. Consuming hospitality Peter Lugosi 19. Hospitality and presumption George Ritzer 20. Liquid hospitality: wine as the metaphor Sjoerd Gehrels 21. Hospitality, territory and identity: reflections from community tourism in Aventureiro Village, Ilha Grande/RJ, Brazil. Helena Catão Henriques Ferreira and Aguinaldo César Fratucci 22. Fluid Hospitality in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Bastienne Bernasco Part III Hospitality through time and space 23. Hunter and gatherer hospitality in Africa Victoria N. Ruiter 24. The gift theory of Marcel Mauss and the potlatch ritual: a triad of hospitality Leandro Benedini Brusadin 25. Hospitality, sanitation services and immigration: leprosarium and hostels for immigrants in Brazil Ana Paula Garcia Spolon 26. Experiencing hospitality and hospitableness in different cultures Javed Suleri 27. Transcending the limits of hospitality: the case of Mount Athos and the offering of Philoxenia Prokopis Christou 28. Fifty shades of hospitality: exploring intimacies Korean love motels Desmond Wee and Ko Koens 29. Hospitality between the sheets: leisure and sexual entertainment for tourists in large urban centres in Brazil Ricardo Lanzarini and Luiz Gonzaga Godoi Trigo Part IV Sustainable hospitality 30. Creating value for all: sustainability in hospitality Elena Cavagnaro 31. Liberating wage slaves: towards sustainable employment practices Conrad Lashley 32. Hospitality studies: developing philosophical practitioners? Conrad Lashley 33. Conclusion: hospitality and beyond...