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  title info:
    title: Strategic management for hospitality and tourism
  name:
    name part: Okumus, Fevzi.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Altinay, Levent.
  name:
    name part: Chathoth, Prakash.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: xiv, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Strategic Management in the International Hospitality Industry: content and process, is a vital text for all those studying cutting edge theories and views on strategic management. Unlike others textbooks in this area, it goes further than merely contextualising strategic management for hospitality and tourism, and avoids using a prescriptive, or descriptive approach. It looks instead, at the latest in strategic thinking and theories, and provides critical and analytical discussion as to how and if these models and theories can be applied to the industry, within specific contexts such as culture, profit and non-profit organisations. Key features: Cutting edge approach: applies advance and recent strategic management views into tourism and hospitality field. Critical treatment: provides critical discussions about whether and how strategic models/theories can be applied into the hospitality and tourism field. Sensitive to specific contexts: As the tourism and hospitality industry has become one of the largest industries worldwide, discusses how strategic management concepts can be applied in different cultures and profit and non-profit tourism organizations. With supporting case studies related to the strategy content, context and process, from international industries such as, Radisson, McDonalds, Carnival Cruiselines and Disney, this text consist of five main sections: introduction, strategy content, strategy context, strategy process and cases. Each of the chapters within these sections has a thorough pedagogic structure consisting of a bulleted introduction, examples and vignettes, discussions points, exercises, case studies and further reading and web sites. Strategic Management in the International Hospitality and Tourism Industry: content and process also provides online support material for tutors and students, in the form of guidelines for instructors on how to use the textbook, PowerPoint presentations and case studies plus additional exercises and web links…
  table of contents: Introduction To Strategy- Introduction to strategic management; Strategic management in hospitality and tourism: Strategy Context - The hospitality and tourism industry context; The organizational context; Strategy Content - Business level strategies; Corporate level strategies; Network level strategies; Strategy Process - Strategic planning or strategic thinking; Strategy formation; Strategy implementation and change; Synthesis - Relating content, process and context.
  note: Fevzi Okumus, Levent Altinay, Prakash Chathoth.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 28, 2010). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Tourism
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Hospitality industry
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Strategic planning
  classification: TX911.3.M27 O38 2010
  classification: 647.940684
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)277068778
  identifier: 9780750665223
  identifier: 075066522X
  identifier: 107783:107823 Elsevier Science & Technology
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 100429
    record change date: 20260609193551.2
    record identifier: in00002601592
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng