Institute of Hospitality Research Award

This year the EuroCHRE 2014 was held in Dubai at The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management where over 250 delegates from over 50 countries attended. The culmination of the conference was the Awards dinner that was hosted at the Jumeriah Beach Hotel next the Burj Al Arab. Updates from the conference and photographs can be found here

There were a number of awards presented during the evening to honour EuroCHRIE colleagues and organisations. The proceedings were opened by Richard Ginioux – Chair of the Awards Committee.

The Institute of Hospitality Research Award is sponsored by the Institute of Hospitality and is given to a superior research publication submitted for the EuroCHRIE annual conference on a topic relevant to the field of hospitality or tourism management by an International CHRIE Member or members.

The Scientific Committee in Dubai and Elizabeth Ineson, EuroCHRIE Director of Research, selected 3 papers to be considered by the Institute of Hospitality for this award – they were:

1. The Role of Knowledge Exposure and Supreme Wine Attributes in Genetically Modified Wine Consumption - authors

- Lu Lu, Washington State University
- Imran Rahman, Auburn University
- Christina Chi, Washington State University

2. The Employer Perspective of Sustainability: Implications for Hospitality Education - authors

- Alisha Ali, Sheffield Hallam University
- Hilary Murphy, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
- Sanjay Nadkarni, The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management

3. Acceptance of GPS-based Augmented Reality Tourism Applications - authors

- Timothy Jung, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
- M. Claudia Leue. Research Assistant, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Mincheol Kim, Professor, Jeju National University

Maria Lockwood from the Institute of Hospitality announced the recipients of this year’s best paper that went to:

- Alisha Ali, Sheffield Hallam University
- Hilary Murphy, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
- Sanjay Nadkarni, The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management

For their paper titled

“The Employer Perspective of Sustainability: Implications for Hospitality Education”

Maria Lockwood (FIH) from the Institute of Hospitality and Kevin Nield (FIH) – Vice President of EuroCHRIE presented the Institute of Hospitality Research Award to Alisha Ali (MIH) from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK on behalf of her co authors Hilary Murphy and Sanjay Nadkami