7th World Research Summit for Hospitality and Tourism

8-11 December 2023 | Rosen College of Hospitality Management, Orlando Florida, USA

Resilience, Recovery, and Reshaping

We are very excited to bring you back to the World Research Summit, face to face, to the beautiful UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management in the Sunshine State of Florida!

The World Research Summit provides an interactive, dynamic, and shared international conference platform for global academics and practitioners to discuss how to enhance research applications and knowledge management through resilience, adaptability, digital intelligence, innovation, and smart knowledge in shifting economies of scale.

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This summit also offers unique opportunities to unfold and embrace Resilience, Recovery, and Reshaping in the hospitality and tourism industry with various stakeholders, including academic researchers, industry professionals and government officials, through dialogues on how to better utilize research outputs for the benefits of the industry in an intelligent, innovative and digital way.

Please join us to be a part of this dynamic international platform where the most recent, state-of-the-art, academic research applications of changing global economy will be shared and discussed. The Summit intends to showcase all aspects and the broadest range of the hospitality and tourism research and welcomes abstracts from various areas.

The main theme of the summit is centered around;

Stakeholder recovery (economic, social, physical, psychological, etc.), resilience building, and reshaping efforts in decision making, technology and innovation, sustainability, marketing, education and pedagogy, risk adaptability, future managerial strategies, and industry performance in the hospitality and tourism industry.

But also includes a wide spectrum of topics of interests:

Policy, planning, and corporate governance and management
Business analytics, models, and operational practice
Supply-chain management and distribution channels
Marketing, branding and reputation management
Consumer behaviour, collaborative consumption, co-creation, decision making, experience and satisfaction
Product, service and experiential innovations
Sport tourism, festivals and events, lodging and MICE marketing and management
Competitiveness, sustainability and corporate social responsibility
Service excellence and service quality
Social media, emerging technologies and e-tourism
Smart cities, mobile technologies, machine learning, big-data analytics
Business Intelligence and Digital Economies
Human resources management and strategic leadership development
Innovation, creativity and change management
Tourism Economics
Education and training
Financial and performance management, and forecasting
Emerging research methods and methodologies

We invite researchers to submit original posters that employ conceptual, empirical, and theoretical approaches that provide new insights for theory and practice related to summit topics above. Submitted manuscripts must be original and not published previously or not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process by the Summit’s Scientific Committee.

All submitted posters should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory (if utilized), methodology, results, conclusions, and theoretical and practical implications of the study using the template provided in the online abstract submission system.

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Organised by

This conference is organised by Elsevier opens in new tab/window and UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management opens in new tab/window

Deadlines

Abstract submission deadline – closed
Poster submission deadline – 13 November 2023

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