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The article provides an analysis of scholarly contributions to 11 hospitality and tourism refereed journals for the years 2002-2006. It presents the top 100 programs as ranked by instances of publications across 11 journals for a recent five-year period. For the five-year period, results indicate Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the top position based on sums of instances, authors and articles. Secondly, the researchers updated, modified and extended a previous study published by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research for similar information for the years 1992-2001. Following the update, an additional 15-year aggregate snapshot of research output for top producing institutions provided a top 18 over the last 15year period. Next, researchers provide an updated analysis by contribution and world region among the specific journals with results indicating a large growth in the number of articles produced in Asia going from 6% of all publications over the former 10-year period from 1992 through 2001 to near 15% of published articles over the past five-year period from 2002 through 2006. The article concludes with suggestions for the extension of similar studies and provides implications for hospitality and tourism educators.

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Executive Summary The evolution and mechanics of mentoring are examined as a prelude to arguing that mentoring is a natural component of effective leadership. Pro-social behavioral roots for mentoring are discussed and informal and formal mentoring programs are compared. The goals, merits, and problems with mentoring are explored. Employee opinions about mentoring are reported as uniformly positive and newly gathered opinions from mentoring students and hospitality industry managers are discussed. Conclusions include that mentoring is a natural part of the leadership dynamic and that mentoring of any kind is beneficial to employees. Suggestions are made as to how to improve the mentoring talents of leaders.