Accomplishments: William F. Harrah College of Hospitality
Joe Lema (Hospitality) and his co-authors recently were awarded Journal Article of the Year 2021 in the top journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. The article was "Classification of Senior Tourists According to Personality Traits." Board members of the Asia Pacific Tourism Association presented the award at their 2022 conference…
Mehmet Erdem, Ashok Singh, Billy Bai, and Chih-Chien Chen (all Hospitality), along with Saeed "Simon" Vayghan, '22 PhD Hospitality, were recognized with the Best Research Paper Award at the 29th Annual International Hospitality IT Association Research Conference held in Orlando, Florida. Their study, "Using Manifest and Latent Coding to Study…
Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) and co-author Tevfik Demirciftci, '20 PhD Hotel Administration, recently had their article "A Cross-cultural Study of Competitive Intelligence in Revenue Management" published in the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management. This article examines what types of competitive intelligence revenue managers…
Kasra Ghaharian (Hospitality and International Gaming Institute) spoke on an expert panel at the 2022 Indian Gaming Tradeshow & Convention. The panel, Responsible Gaming in the Digital Age, addressed how advances in technology are impacting consumer protection policy and practices in the gambling industry.
Cass Shum and Ankita Ghosh (both Hospitality) recently published their paper "Safety or Service? Effects of Employee Prosocial Safety-Rule-Breaking on Consumer Satisfaction" in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. The paper showed that employees' prosocial safety-rule breaking hurts consumer satisfaction because it decreases…
Huiying "Sophie" Zhang (Hospitality) was awarded a Graduate & Professional Student Association award for her work "Expanding the Knowledge Frontier." UNLV recognizes a variety of individuals from across disciplines each year for their contributions to the development and continued growth of the university. Awards were distributed at the UNLV…
Cass Shum (Hospitality) is a co-author of the article "Robots Can’t Take my Job: Antecedents and Outcomes of Gen Z Employees’ Service Robot Risk Awareness," which was published in International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. This paper examines employees' perceived job insecurity threatened by the adoption of service…
Jungsun "Sunny" Kim and Mehmet Erdem (both Hospitality) were two of 10 restaurant technology experts featured in HT Magazine's "2022 Restaurant Industry Outlook." The article explores hospitality technology trends — identifying what's working, what's not working, and the most promising trends for the future.
Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), and Shane Kraus (Psychology) presented a poster, "Problem Gambling and Mental Health Disorders among Undergraduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic", at the 2022 New Horizons In Responsible Gambling Conference.
Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) is coauthor of an article, "Risk Mitigation through Source Credibility in Online Travel Communities," which has been published in the hospitality research journal, Anatolia. Using "uncertainty reduction theory" the researchers explore the impacts of risk perceptions in online travel communities on source…
Wen Jiang, Cass Shum, Billy Bai, and Mehmet Erdem (all Hospitality) recently published their paper, "P2P Accommodation Motivators and Repurchase Intention: A Comparison of Indirect and Total Effects Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management. The paper tested and compared the…
Ozgur Ozdemir (Hospitality) recently published an article, "Top Management Team Gender Diversity and Firm Risk-taking in the Hospitality Industry," in International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. He co-authored this study with Ezgi Erkmen from Bogazici University in Istanbul.