About this journal

Research in Hospitality Management (RHM)  is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing research articles that make an original contribution to the understanding of hospitality and to the theory and practice of international hospitality management. 

Substantive Topic Reviews, Short Communications, Viewpoints, Book Reviews and Discussion Papers will also be considered.

The journal focuses on three main areas:

1) "Hospitality (Management) Studies", includes articles related to the study of and the study for hospitality. The study of hospitality refers to studies about the essence and ethics of hospitality from a social sciences perspective, while the study for hospitality refers to the quintessential managerial disciplines of Finance, Human Resources, Operations, Marketing & Sales, and Technology;

2) "Hospitality Management Education" is devoted to articles about curriculum content and delivery methods for training and educating hospitality managers. Considering the size and scope of the hospitality industry, and the number of staff and students involved, studies on efficient, effective, and innovative ways of developing hospitality competencies are considered indispensable;

3) "Student Research Projects" considers excellent student work relating to Bachelor's or Master's research projects and theses.

Submissions undergo double anonymized peer review and the decision of the Editor-in-Chief is final.

All articles are made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication, under a Creative Commons attribution agreement ( CC BY 4.0). No charges are levied for publication as article processing charges (APCs) are sponsored by the Academy of International Hospitality Research, Hotel Management School, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences.

*Please note that Research in Hospitality Management converted to a fully Open Access journal beginning with Volume 6 (2016). Volumes 1 to 5 are free to access.

Editor-in-Chief
Dr Rodney Westerlaken, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Hotel Management School, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected]

Editorial Advisor
Prof. Ian Yeoman, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Editorial Advisory Board
Prof. Julie Allan, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Alisha Ali, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Dr Michel Altan, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Dr Jan Bamford, London Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Chris Baumann, Macquarie University, Australia
Dr Marco Bevolo, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands & Marco Bevolo Consulting
Dr Derek Cameron, University of Huddersfield, UK
Dr Marte Rinck de Boer, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Prof. Daphne Dekker, Hotelschool The Hague, The Netherlands
Prof. Hylke van Dijk, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Norman Dinsdale, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Drs Geesje Duursma, Restaurant Partycentrum Catering De Pleats Burgum, The Netherlands
Dr Klaes Eringa, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Dr Philip Goulding, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Dr Joseph Hegarty, Dublin Institute of Technology (Emeritus), Ireland
Dr Ankie Hoefnagels, Hotel Management School Maastricht, Zuyd Hogeschool, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Prof. Cathy Hsu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Prof. Stanislav Ivanov, Varna University of Management, Bulgaria
Prof. Jay Kandampully, Ohio State University, USA
Dr Peter Klosse, The Academy of Scientific Taste Evaluation, The Netherlands
Thomas Landen, Revinate, The Netherlands
Prof. Willy Legrand, IUBH International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Luewton Lemos, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Joachim de Looij, INK Hotel Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prof. Xander Lub, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Prof. Peter Lugosi, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Prof. Paul Lynch, Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Prof. David S Martin, Auburn University, USA
Prof. Frans Melissen, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Prof. Julio Mendes, University of Algarve, Portugal
Dr Eleni Michopoulou, University of Derby, UK
Yvonne Nassar, RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr Kevin O’Gorman, Independent Researcher, UK
Prof. Barry O’Mahony, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Martin O’Neill, Auburn University, USA
Dr Ioannis S. Pantelidis, School of Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton, UK
Dr Rajka Presbury, Blue Mountains, International Hotel Management School, Australia
Dr Sarah Rawlinson, University of Northampton, UK
Prof. Dan Remenyi, ACPI Academic Conferences and Publishing International, UK
Prof. George Ritzer, University of Maryland, USA
Hans van der Reijden, The Hotel at Auburn University, USA
Prof. Olivier Saissi, Université du Sud Toulon Var, France
Dr Zoran Simonovic, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Serbia
Dr Ana Paula Garcia Spolon, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Maarten Wessels, Entrée Magazine, The Netherlands
Prof. Karoline Wiegerink, Hotelschool The Hague, The Netherlands

Information Science Consultant: Kathy Ord – Stenden South Africa

Publishing Manager: Kelly-Anne Frith, NISC (Pty) Ltd, South Africa [email protected]