• New casino areas are compared to areas with existing casinos and without casinos. • Employment and earnings in local gambling industry doubled due to the new casino. • Indirect spillovers limited to employment growth in closely related local industries. • One to two additional hospitality jobs are created for every gambling job created. • No significant employment or earnings effects are foun...

OBJECTIVE To describe how the British Columbia Capital Regional District successfully passed, implemented, and enforced a 100% smokefree bylaw in all public places, including restaurants and bars, despite an aggressive campaign by the tobacco industry (acting through the hospitality industry) to stop it. METHODS Information was obtained from news reports, internal tobacco industry documents, ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate deaths from passive smoking in employees of the hospitality industry as well as in the general workforce and general population of the United Kingdom. DESIGN Calculation, using the formula for population attributable proportion, of deaths likely to have been caused by passive smoking at home and at work in the UK according to occupation. Sensitivity analyses to examine i...

The article discusses the methodological potential of fiction in developing professional and communicative competencies of Hospitality students based on interdisciplinary approach. The study focuses on the most actual aspects of speech culture and describes the ways of developing professionally oriented communicative competencies and the basics of professional speech training of bachelors in th...

With the emphasis on self-directed learning (SDL) and learner-controlled instruction (LCI) the author looks into the mechanism that has made several business and industrial sectors in the Western world progress significantly in the training and development field. The achievement of this strategy as compared to the traditional training of time-based rotation has made several organizations follow...

This study seeks to identify the elements of operational capability and obtain a detailed picture of the sequential relationships among operational capabilities and business performance in the hospitality industry. In addition, it attempts to prove that the capability to offer an enhanced customer experience constitutes a core competitive advantage in service firms. A phone survey was conducted...

The objectives of this study are to predict bankruptcy risk among SMEs in the hospitality industry for a three-year horizon period and investigate factors that significant determining bankruptcy. contribution is essential as businesses dominated by SME operators. However, failure rate relatively high almost 50 percent establishments do not survive beyond five years operation. Stepwise logistic ...

The emerging digital technologies are reshaping and disrupting traditional business practices throughout the hospitality industry, companies face, may have to address, several new responsibility issues as they adopt these technologies. However, issue of corporate within industry has received limited attention, in academic literature this paper looks make a small contribution addressing that gap...

The study from 1984 that pushed hospitality educators to incorporate robots into their classes and research is revisited, updated, summarised in this conceptual note. Organizations across the world are beginning use robots, artificial intelligence, service automation a variety of ways. tourism sectors embracing cutting-edge technology. Travel firms have ideal chance improve marketing, customer ...