1998 Volume 49 Issue 6 Pages 709-718
Hospitality means “the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors of strangers with liberality and good will” (the Oxford English Dictionary).
After adopting this meaning, the hospitality industry includes food services, lodging services, and travel and tourism services.
During the past two decades, hospitality education has developed under the influence of the rapidly growing industry in the United States. In the early 1970s, there were approximately 40 four-year college programs offering a bachelor's degree in hospitality management in the United States. There are now approximately 390 hospitality education programs offering an associate degree, 320 with a bachelor's degree, and 60 with a master's and Ph. D. degree.
We describe the curricula of hospitality management courses in New York University, the University of Tennessee, and Kansas State University which all have good reputations as national leaders in hospitality education.
