This study is the third phase of a repeated cross-sectional study that explores the current rankings of important accounting skills to lodging managers and the changes in the importance of accounting skills to lodging managers over time. In this study, as with two prior studies, financial...

This study provides empirical evidence of the comprehensive accounting skills by financial executives across the United States, and Canada believed important to private club general managers. This study's purview extends to identify any significant differences or similarities in the accounting...

This study compares the load time for hotel and hotel company websites with the load times for online travel agencies, aggregators and peer to peer accommodation websites. A traveler's first impression of a hotel company is likely to be their first visit to the website on either their computer or...

This paper traces the major developments in the field of management accounting briefly and then highlights the need for more cross-national management accounting studies. The results from two parallel surveys of matched Indian and Canadian hotel organizations are presented. The main aim of the...

Purpose: This study aims to describe and understand how and to what extent hotel managers adopt sustainable development (SD) practices in their establishment, given the presence of barriers to the adoption of such practices by hotel establishments, and the lack of knowledge as to the ways and means ...

Tourism is booming and generates millions of jobs for women around the world. Yet the hotel industry exemplifies the vast inequality of today's world. The women who make hotel beds and clean hotel toilets labour long hours for meagre pay, face sexual harassment and intimidation, are exposed daily...

Purpose: The study compares the corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions of two sectors of hospitality, tourism and travel (hotels and airlines) by researching what Six Sense hotels (a hotel brand) and Air Canada (an airline company) have been doing in order to respond to the 17 Sustainable...

This paper overviews the tourism and hospitality industry in Canada, reviews relevant research on human resource management devolution generally, and examines human resource management devolution in five major hotels in the region of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Findings suggest that managers in hotels...

Purpose: Blockchain technology is predicted to revolutionize the tourism and hospitality industry through peer-to-peer hotel bookings with little or no involvement of intermediaries. Outstanding features of this technology are its distributed form of storing data, its collaborative way of...

Purpose - This paper aims to analyse the evolution, current challenges, best practices, and trends in the international hotel industry. Design/methodology/approach - The foundation for this paper was laid during a well-attended Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) roundtable discussion...