Summary
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The book focuses on key aspects of the hospitality management curriculum, research, and practice bringing together leading scholars throughout the world. Each essay examines a theme or functional aspect of hospitality management and offers a critical overview of the principle ideas and issues that have contributed, and continue to contribute, within it.
Accommodation and Facilities Management
Accommodation and Facilities Management
Introduction and Context
We commence this chapter with an assertion: that any sensible discussion of accommodation management in the hospitality sector could usefully benefit from an understanding of developments in a parallel field, namely that of facilities management. Yet, on the hospitality side at least, the area of facilities management is not well understood and the connections between the two subject areas are by no means explicit, either at the theoretical or practical level. Certainly, there have been student textbooks and contributions to textbooks, that talk of facilities management in the hospitality sector and sometimes felicitously combine terms such as ‘facilities management’ and ‘hospitality’ (in the first case, see Gee, 1999; in the second Stipanuk and Roffman, 1996) though ...
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