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The
One2One tradition was started last year at the conference at the To
schedule a One2One session please send us your first three choices for
One2One scholar meetings to the email below and you will receive a
confirmation of your schedule. One2One opportunities are scheduled
during the break and poster session on Sunday afternoon (3-4pm);
during the break and poster session on Monday morning (10:30-11am) and
then again during poster session “E” and the break on Monday
afternoon (3-4pm). If your One2One session conflicts with your
presentation, we will make schedule changes accordingly – just let
us know. One2One
email: gradstudentconference@unlv.edu PLEASE NOTE: One2One Scholars are still being added to the list. Please check back for additional options. Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-4 pm (Salon C and Stan Fulton Bistro) Dr.
Abraham Pizam, University of Central Florida
Monday, January 4, 2009, 11am-12pm (Sonoma B, Napa A, Napa B, Convention Center) Dr.
Barbara Almanza, Purdue University Scholar's Bios
Abraham Pizam is Dean and Linda Chapin Eminent Scholar Chair in Tourism Management in the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Previously he was Chair and founder of the department of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida, and Director of Graduate Programs in the Hotel Restaurant and Travel Administration department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Professor
Pizam is widely known in the field of Hospitality and Tourism
Management and has conducted research projects, lectured, and served
as a consultant in more than 30 countries. He has held various
academic positions, in the U.S., U.K., France, Austria, Australia,
New-Zealand, Singapore, Israel and Switzerland, is the author of 146
scientific publications and seven books, and is on the editorial staff
of 15 academic journals in the field of tourism/hospitality
management.
Dr. Chihyung Ok is an assistant professor of Hospitality Management at Kansas State University. He teaches hospitality marketing, lodging management theory, research methods, and strategic management and case studies. He received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University, M.S. from Florida International University, and B.S. from Sejong University, Korea. Research Topics
Dr. Anna S. Mattila, is a professor at the School of Hospitality management at The Pennsylvania State University. She holds a Ph.D. in services marketing from Cornell University. Her research interests focus on service encounters with a particular interest in service failures and service recovery and cross-cultural research. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, International Journal of Service Industry Management, Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly, Journal of Travel Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Tourism Management and in the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research. Anna has written several book chapters and currently serves on thirteen editorial boards in journals specializing in services management. She is also the Chief Editor of Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research. Anna is a recipient of John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Award and The University of Delaware Michael D. Olsen Lifetime Research Achievement Award.
Dr. Clayton Barrows is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and is currently Professor of Hospitality Management at the University of New Hampshire where he teaches classes in hospitality management with an emphasis on private club management. He has worked in the hospitality industry and hospitality education in the US and Canada for 30 years. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of New Hampshire (in 2006), he was Professor in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Guelph in Canada. While at Guelph, he also served as the coordinator of the MBA program in Hospitality and Tourism.
Dr. Joan Marie Clay is professor and past chairperson in the Division of the Hospitality Management at the University of North Texas (UNT). Joan has been a faculty member in the UNT School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management for the past 17 years teaching primarily in the areas of human resources, cost controls, and legal aspects of hospitality management. Joan has held faculty positions in the business schools at UNT, Texas Tech University, and College of St. Mary in Omaha, Nebraska.
Ercan [Sirakaya] Turk, Ph.D., is a Sloan research professor of tourism in the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. and MS from Clemson University, South Carolina USA. He is the 2006-2007, recipient of the US State Department’s prestigious Fulbright scholarship to teach tourism and conduct destination development and branding studies in Russia. Before joining USC, Professor Turk was a faculty member at Texas A&M University (1998-2006) and the Pennsylvania State University (1996-1998). Dr. Turk has published a significant number of articles in the area of tourism destination marketing and developmental policy in prestigious tourism journals such as the Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, and Tourism Analysis. Dr. [Sirakaya] Turk is the founding and current associate editor-in-chief for an online tourism research bulletin (e-Review of Tourism Research). He also serves at editorial boards of several major journals including Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Analysis, European Journal of Polical and Anatolia and is a field reviewer for numerous academic journals. He serves as a member in an international Think Tank group (BEST-EN) that deals with issues of sustainable tourism development issues in developing countries. His dissertation work has received a prestigious TTRA’s William B. Keeling award. He served as a faculty senator and was a member of the Institutional Review Board (Ethics Board in Human Research Subjects) of Texas A&M University (2002-2005). He teaches tourism economics, marketing and research methods classes. Currently, he is completing a research methods book and numerous publications pertaining to branding places and sustainability.
Dogan Gursoy is the editor of Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management and Associate Professor at Washington State University in the School of Hospitality Business Management. He received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech, M.S. degree from University of New Haven and B.A. from the School of Business and Economics at Cukurova University, Turkey. His area of research includes hospitality and tourism marketing, tourist behavior, travelers’ information search behavior, community support for tourism development, cross-cultural studies, consumer behavior and involvement. His research has been published broadly in refereed Tier I journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, and Journal Travel Research. His research has been presented at numerous hospitality and tourism conferences and received numerous research awards. He serves on the editorial board of several journals including Annals of Tourism Research (associate editor), Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Social Inquiry (associate editor) Tourism Analysis, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, International Journal Contemporary Hospitality Management, Advances of Hospitality and Leisure, Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, Tourism and Hospitality Management, etc. He is also an active member of Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA), the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators (I-CHRIE), and EuroCHRIE.
Atul Sheel, Ph.D, is the Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Finance and Revenue Management in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) and a Masters in Hospitality Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Dr. Seyhmus Baloglu is the Associate Dean for Research and Harrah Distinguished Chair at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, UNLV. His teaching areas include marketing, research methods, and multivariate statistics. He also teaches hospitality marketing strategy and research methods in the Executive Masters of Hospitality Administration distance education program.
As Corporate Vice President of Talent and Engagement at Harrah’s Entertainment, Brad Warga is focused on talent acquisition which includes; executive recruitment, corporate and property hiring as well as all campus programs. In addition, Brad leads the company’s employee engagement efforts to ensure the Harrah’s culture is one that makes employees better personally and professionally through their association with Harrah’s. Harrah’s currently has more than 50 properties around the world with over 80,000 employees. Prior to his current role, Brad served as Vice President of Human Resources for Harrah’s North Kansas City, where he led property Human Resource functions for a $200M/1600 person casino resort. Brad’s primary responsibility is the engagement of employees which includes: hiring and selection, on-boarding, training, total rewards, customer service and maintaining a performance based culture. In 2007 through the implementation of a new engagement strategy, Brad and his team lowered overall turnover by 25% and 90 day turnover by 65% year over year. Harrah’s North Kansas City is a recipient of two facets of the prestigious HRMA Paragon Award and in 2007 and 2008 Harrah’s North Kansas City was named the #1 large company to work for by the Kansas City Business Journal. Prior to Harrah's, Brad spent time with Price Waterhouse Consulting and Sapient Corporation, a Boston based internet consulting firm. Brad has a B.S. degree in Business from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
Dr. Almanza received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois iwith an emphasis in foodservice management and her M.S., and B.S. from the University of Minnesota in foods and nutrition, as well as a B.A. in French. She is also a Registered Dietitian with the American Dietetic Association and has work experience in hospital foodservice. Dr. Almanza has over 100 research, technical, book, and trade publications in the areas of food safety, nutrition labeling, and foodservice operations. In addition, she has received over 35 grants in these areas, including a USDA grant titled “Safe Handling of Home Delivered Meals to Older Americans and an NRA Teacher Work-Study Grant for which she interned as a health inspector for Tippecanoe County in Indiana. Dr. Almanza works actively with graduate students on research projects and has served on more than 60 masters and Ph.D. committees. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of foodservice sanitation, equipment, and foodservice research.
A former hotel manager and tourism industry consultant, Prof Kaye Chon (Ph.D., CHE, FIH) is Chair Professor and Director of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Chon was previously Professor and Director of Tourism Industry Institute at University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton College in the United States.
Dr. Clark Hu is an enthusiastic educator and researcher with experiences in hospitality sales/marketing, consulting, and education. He has been with Temple University's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management after his graduate education in both the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University and the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Clark has published in a variety of research journals and presented many conference papers based on his research work. He is also a three-time Best Paper Award winner in the annual International CHRIE (Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education) conferences in Marketing and Technology areas. His recent publications can be found in Tourism Management, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Journal of Travel Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education. He sits on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management (formerly Journal of Hospitality and Leisure Marketing), China Tourism Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, the official publication of the Asia Pacific Tourism Association (APTA), Journal of Hospitality, Tourism, & Leisure Science, and Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism. In addition to serving as a board member for ISTTE (International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators), he has been a member of many professional associations, including TTRA (Travel & Tourism Research Association), I-CHRIE, IFITT (International Federation for IT and Travel Tourism), AH&LA (American Hotel & Lodging Association), HSMAI (Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International), ISTTE, APTA, etc. His recent research focus has been on knowledge management to study and develop systems for knowledge creation, transfer, sharing, and coordination in tourism & hospitality industries with particular interests in managing security and risk issues. Current Projects: Enhancing Online Knowledge-Based System for Safe Festivals & Events (eSAFE version 2.0); KNOWRisk, a Knowledge-based System for Managing Risks in Hospitality and Tourism industries; Developing an Online Knowledge Planning System for Destination Marketing (eKNOW-PSDM) of the Olympic Games
Dr. Jay Kandampully is a professor in services management and hospitality at The Ohio State University, USA. He also serves as a visiting professor at University of Innsbruck, Austria; Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China; Prince of Songkla University, Thailand; University of Mauritius, Jay is the Editor in Chief of the international journal, Managing Service Quality; and serves on the editorial advisory board of 12 refereed international journals. He also serves as the services management columnist for the Columbus business periodical ‘Business First’. He holds a PhD in service quality management, and an MBA, specialising in services marketing, both from the University of Exeter, England. His undergraduate degree was in Hotel Management from Salzburg, Austria and from the University College Birmingham, UK. His educational qualifications have been well supported by nine years managerial experience in Europe, India and in the USA.
Woody G. Kim is Robert H. Dedman Professor in Hospitality and Director of International Center for Hospitality Research & Development in the Dedman School of Hospitality at Florida State University. He holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University, an MBA from University of Houston, and a M.S. from University of Massachusetts. His research and teaching interests include revenue management, pricing, brand management, customer relationship management, and hospitality finance. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles such as International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, Tourism Management, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, and Tourism Economics. He has also presented papers in more than 60 national and international conferences. He is a recipient of the 2004 Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research Best Article of the Year award from Sage Publication and the best-paper award at the 2004 Hospitality Information Technology Association (HITA) Conference. He serves on journal editorial boards and is a reviewer for a number of journals.
Dr. Ken McCleary is Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Virginia Tech, specializing in the area of marketing. He holds a Ph.D. and MBA in Marketing and a B.S. in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management, all from Michigan State University. Dr. McCleary has over a hundred published articles and papers and has been ranked in the top five of the most influential authors in hospitality and tourism. His publications appear in the Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly, Restaurant Business, Hotel & Motel Management, Tourism Analysis, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research and Annals of Tourism Research to name a few.
Dr. Nelson came to the University of Delaware as an assistant professor in 1990 and began serving as HRIM department chair in fall 2007. His research in tourism development has led to numerous academic publications and paper presentations. Among his recent projects are two edited books, Developing a Successful Infrastructure for Convention & Event Tourism and Current Issues in Convention and Exhibition Facility Development, which were published by The Haworth Press www.HaworthPress.com . Dr. Nelson also serves as the editor of the Journal of Convention & Event Tourism. His secondary stream of research into the policies of food service organizations regarding the use of genetically altered foods has attracted attention from both industry and academia. Dr. Nelson is a pioneer in the area of distance learning via television, video, and the World Wide Web. His "Purchasing for the Hospitality Industry" course was the first on campus to combine streamed video with PowerPoint notes on the World Wide Web. In the late 1990’s, Professor Nelson hosted the educational television programs Culinary Survival Skills and Food Facts that were broadcast internationally on Knowledge TV. The Food Facts series was also released on video and has been used in hospitality programs throughout the country, including Cornell, Texas Tech, Purdue and the Culinary Institute of America. More recently, Dr. Nelson developed the concept, assembled the production team, and secured sponsorship for an online wine training program for restaurant service staff. UD Wine Online features renowned wine educator Marnie Old and was produced by Food Network veteran Susannah Eaton-Ryan. Research interests: tourism development, tourism policy, beverage management
W. Terry Umbreit, Ph.D., is Director and Intercontinental Hotels Group Chair of Excellence, Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management at the University of Memphis. He received his Ph.D. in Higher Education and Administration from Washington State University. His M.S. Degree is from Northern Illinois University in business management. His undergraduate work included receiving a B.S. Degree from Michigan State University in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management, and B.A. from DePauw University in history. Dr. Umbreit’s background encompasses close to 40 years of both academic administration and hospitality industry experience. He has authored numerous publications in prominent hospitality journals. His recent co-authored research appeared in such prestigious journals as the International Journal of Hospitality Management, and Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research. Dr. Umbreit’s research focuses on human resource and hospitality education issues. His body of work and academic achievements has resulted in many honors and recognitions. Dr. Umbreit received in 2008, Michigan State University’s The School of Hospitality Business Alumni Association Lifetime Academic Achievement Award. International CHRIE recognized his lifetime contributions and outstanding service to hospitality education by presenting him with the Howard B. Meek Award in 2001. He also received the ICHRIE Achievement Award in 1992 in recognition of contributing innovative ideas, methods and program that advance teaching, learning and practice in the field of hospitality education. Research Topics |
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