'In Search of Hospitality' is a unique contribution to the study of hospitality, exploring the practice of hospitality across disciplines, and adopting an international perspective where appropriate. This title brings together an extraordinary collection of leading researches and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history, thereby providing a broad and comprehensive perspective on hospitality. It focuses the study of hospitality across the range of human, social and economic settings, and provides a reference point for the future development of hospitality as an academic discipline. Harnessing this wide range of viewpoints, 'In Search of Hospitality' offers an intellectually stimulating and innovative approach to the study of hospitality. It is ideal for students and academics within both the applied fields of hospitality and tourism studies and the general fields of business studies and behaviour sciences. It is also suitable for practitioners in hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses, for whom it provides a provocative and informative guide to understanding and providing hospitality within a commercial context.

Conrad Lashley, Alison Morrison

Chapter 1 Towards a theoretical understanding, Conrad Lashley; Chapter 2 An anthropology of hospitality, Tom Selwyn; Chapter 3 The philosophy of hospitableness, Elizabeth Telfer; Chapter 4 The hospitality trades: a social history, John K. Walton; Chapter 5 Putting up? Gender, hospitality and performance, Jane Darke, Craig Gurney; Chapter 6 Home and commercialized hospitality, Paul Lynch, Doreen MacWhannell; Chapter 7 Mediated meanings of hospitality: television personality food programmes, Sandie Randall; Chapter 8 Hospitality and hospitality management, Bob Brotherton, Roy C. Wood; Chapter 9 Managing hospitality operations, Andrew Lockwood, Peter Jones; Chapter 10 Social scientific ways of knowing hospitality, David Botterill; Chapter 11 Humour in commercial hospitality settings, Stephen Ball, Keith Johnson; Chapter 12 Consuming hospitality: learning from post-modernism?, Alistair Williams; Chapter 13 Consuming hospitality on holiday, Hazel Andrews; Chapter 14 Working in the hospitality industry, Yvonne Guerrier, Amel Adib; Chapter 15 Education for hospitality, David Airey, John Tribe;