Globally the hospitality and tourism industry is evolving and undergoing radical changes. The past practices are now advancing through the rapid development of knowledge and skills acquired to adapt and create innovations in various ways. Hence, it is imperative that we have an understanding of the present issues so that we are able to remedy probl

Hospitality and Tourism - Synergizing creativity and innovation in research contains 116 accepted papers from the International Hospitality and Tourism Postgraduate Conference 2013 (Shah Alam, Malaysia, 2 3 September 2013). The book presents trends and practical ideas in the area of hospitality and tourism, and is divided into the sections below:-

Improving positive and reducing negative organizational behaviors in businesses are important in terms of organizational success as this will lead to an increase in employee organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Considering that the tourism industry has such a dynamic structure, it is obvious that behavioral issues in the industry need to be scrutinized. Organizational Behavior Challenges in the Tourism Industry is a collection of innovative research that aims to explore relevant theoretical frameworks in terms of organizational behavior issues and provides the opportunity for tourism organizations to understand their employees’ behavior. While highlighting topics including emotional labor, deviant behavior, and organizational cynicism, this book is ideally designed for hotel managers, tour directors, restaurateurs, travel agents, business managers, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

Theory and Practice in Hospitality and Tourism Research includes 111 contributions from the 2nd International Hospitality and Tourism Conference 2014 (Penang, Malaysia, 2-4 September 2014), and covers a comprehensive range of topics, including:- Hospitality management- Hospitality & tourism marketing- Tourism management- Technology & innova

Introduction to Human Resource Management in Tourism and Hospitality Industry is written for the reference of students taking courses related to human resource management in tourism and hospitality industry. This book contains some information of tourism and hospitality industry in Malaysia. Included in this book is information regarding industrial relations in Malaysia which applies Malaysian laws as some of the international laws are not applicable in Malaysia. This book applies new theories and information from a new source of reference to help students gain a new perspective on human resource management in the tourism and hospitality industry. The scope of the content is comprised of the overview of human resource management in tourism and hospitality industry, recruitment and selection, motivation, training and development, performance appraisal, reward, organization communication, employee relations and labour relations, leadership, international HRM, and the future of HRM in the tourism and hospitality industry.

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the organizational commitment of employees in the hotel industry of Kuching, Sarawak, and the factors of career development opportunity, and also the demographic variables. The factors of career development opportunities examined in this study were job fit, job rotation, effective training and development programs, effectiveness of top management support, mentoring system, and recognition level. This study was carried out in 12 major hotels in Kuching City. A total of 364 lower and middle management level hotel employees, from the Food and Beverage Department, Front Office Department and the Housekeeping Department were selected as samples in this study.