Career Goals and Expectations of Hospitality and Tourism Students in China

Gender differences in the hospitality industry: A Job quality index

“…Lower salaries, more part-time and temporary contracts (Blake, Arbache, Sinclair, & Teles, 2008;Lacher & Oh, 2012) and the need to cover 24/7 working hours (Lu & Adler, 2009), might be the reasons why many workers decide to leave the industry after their initial work experiences (Doherty, Guerrier, Jamieson, Lashley, & Lockwood, 2001;Jenkins, 2001).…”

Sustainability and the Tourism and Hospitality Workforce: A Thematic Analysis

“…Based on the birth cohort perspective, differences among three age cohorts ("Baby Boomers": 1945-1964; "Gen X": 1965-1980; "Gen Y/Gen Me/Nexters/Millenialls": >1980) have been explored from: (a) frontline and service contact employee perspectives [72][73][74]; (b) managerial perspectives [75]; and (c) the perspectives of both groups of employees' and managers [76][77][78][79][80][81] (except housekeeping [82]). Students' perspectives on work values and their career expectations have been explored in terms of understanding the entrants' (Gen Y) ways of thinking on arrival in the tourism and hospitality labor market (e.g., [83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91]). …”

College Students’ Decision-Making for Study Abroad – Anecdotes from a U.S. Hospitality and Tourism Internship Program in China

“…Such a finding corresponds to the different parent-child relationships across cultures. In the United States, good parenting behaviors include displays of warmth and closeness balanced with monitoring and control (Baumrind, 1971), while Asian parents tend to be more controlling of their children (Lu & Adler, 2009). For those participants who were in face of disagreement by parents, they unanimously indicate that, while they do not want to go against their parents' opinions, they express their disagreement and try to convince their parents by providing a greater amount of positive information.…”