Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes

ISSN: 1755-4217

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Editorial objectives

Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) provides thematic reviews of the major challenges facing the tourism and hospitality industry today. Combining empirical data with secondary research and views of senior practitioners in the field, each issue provides practical solutions to challenges faced by the industry worldwide.

Editorial criteria

Each thematic issue contains:

Answers to a strategic challenge facing the tourism and hospitality industry, via empirical research articles
A summary of relevant literature on the theme
Discussion/'thought pieces’ with practitioners responsible for dealing with the specific industry challenge
Implementable and practical management action

The journal takes a unique format. Each issue is themed and addresses a significant hospitality / tourism challenge. The outcomes from each theme issue must be practical and implementable – WHATT aims to make a practical contribution to the sustainable development of the worldwide hospitality and tourism industry.

Scope/Coverage

Examples of themes relevant to the journal include:

Human resource development in hospitality and tourism
Tourism development
Hospitality trends
Travel and tourism marketing
Sustainable development and international tourism
Management, service improvement and business performance in tourism and hospitality
Climate change and the tourism industry
Talent management in the hospitality sector

The inaugural three WHATT issues are available as special issues within Volume 20 of International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.

Key benefits

Each WHATT theme issue devotes six articles to an in-depth review of a strategic challenge – linked to a key, strategic question.
Rather than focusing on ‘fresh’ empirical data the focus is on analyzing, reviewing (literature and other evidence), summarizing, discussing (with practitioners) and capturing outcomes that can be acted upon.
WHATT is the only journal to stand back, ask the big questions and take a considered look at how academic analysis might assist practitioners in a meaningful way.

Key journal audiences

WHATT is designed to be read widely and is not aimed solely at academics. It is about analysis, dialogue and action and it is for everyone with an interest in hospitality and tourism and related sectors:

practitioners
academics and students
suppliers and investors
Government agencies and policy makers

Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes is Indexed and Abstracted in:

ABI/INFORM Complete
ABI/INFORM Global
British Library
CIRET
Hospitality & Tourism Index™
Hospitality & Tourism Complete™
ProQuest Central

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