West is the Best!

The Career Fair is back again for the 2023 Annual ICHRIE Summer Conference in Phoenix, Arizona USA.

On Friday, 21st July, we’ll shift focus to the “education” portion of the Education & Innovation Center (EIC) when we host the Career Fair and poster presentations over lunch.

Get ready to DUCK!

The Annual DUCK Race returns for the 2023 ICHRIE Summer Conference in Phoenix, Arizona! 

The NENA CHRIE Federation held its spring regional conference this year at West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics Hospitality Management Program in Morgantown, West Virginia from March 31-April 2, 2023. The Conference was a great success! We were thrilled to have a robust schedule of research papers and poster presentations along with keynote speakers and panelists from industry and academia, as well as interactive workshops all focused on the conference theme of “Innovate Everywhere”. Attendance was much higher than anticipated and we continue to have a growing cohort of grad students attend and present their work at this regional conference. It is wonderful to see their excitement and passion for higher education and our industry early in their career.

2023 Networking and Professional Development Event Sponsored by Eta Sigma Delta

Have you registered for the ESD events at this year's National Restaurant Association's 2023 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, Illinois, USA from 20-23 May 2023?? 

Dear SECSA-CHRIE Members,

Recently, ICHRIE Executive Director, Fran Brasseux, visited the Northern Virginia Center (in Falls Church, VA) and learned about the amazing new Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. ICHRIE had a warm welcome from Dr. Mahmood Khan, Mary Richards, Jim Murphy (Information Technology) and international hospitality and tourism graduate students.

Dear Colleagues,

Dear ICHRIE Members,

I am thrilled to share that it was another great WF CHRIE Conference this year, with 130+ conference attendees!

It’s the MOST WONDERFUL time of the year!!

Last week, ICHRIE's Fran Brasseux (ICHRIE Executive Director) and Dr. Ralf Burbach (ICHRIE President and Assistant Head of the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism at Technological University Dublin) hit the road in sunny Florida, USA. During their four-day road trip, they traveled to see ICHRIE family at several universities and made several stops along the way. We are excited to share their adventure with you!

DAY 1

For many years, ICHRIE and its CHRIE FutureFund™ had supported Best Paper winners from the Graduate Education & Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality & Tourism by awarding complimentary registration to the ICHRIE Annual Conference to each student winner.  During Future Fund Committee meetings held in fall 2022, co-chairs Misty Johansen and Carl Winston encouraged committee members to think bigger in terms of Future Fund impact. At its December meeting, committee members voted unanimously to approve awarding each student Best Paper winner from the Graduate Conference with a $1,000 award voucher. The award voucher provided complimentary registration for the 2023 ICHRIE Annual Summer Conference in Phoenix, as well as allowing the respective winner to choose among a complimentary one-year ICHRIE membership, reimbursement of lodging in the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa during conference, or reimbursement of airfare to/from Phoenix, with total award maximum of $1,000.

The 2022 CentralCHRIE Conference was hosted in conjunction with the Purdue University White Lodging-J.W. Marriott, Jr. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management’s inaugural annual Spirit of Hospitality Summit on September 29^th and 30^th. It was well attended with a number of industry professionals, faculty, and staff traveling from outside of the Purdue community as well as faculty and students (both graduate and undergraduate level) from Purdue University. CentralCHRIE was represented by seven states and ten universities with approximately 34 member attendees. The Hospitality Summit featured over 30 educational sessions along with four keynote sessions, a networking event, a poster session sponsored by CentralCHRIE, and reception for CentralCHRIE members, all of which provided federation members with opportunities to engage with various programs.

The focus of this special issue is to seek scholarly submissions examining experience-related topics from various perspectives including (but not limited to) marketing, consumer behavior, accounting and finance, strategy, human resources, technology, supply chain, food and beverage, and planning and design for the hospitality and tourism industry.

In the Summer 2022 issue of the Pamplin Pulse, the Virginia Tech’s TLOS, Thinkabit, and the MSBA-HTM program were featured for their contributions at the ICHRIE Conference’s Education and Innovation Center (EIC) at the 2022 Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference.

ICHRIE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS!

We need your leadership!  ICHRIE is seeking out candidates for several positions for the Board of Directors, beginning in the summer 2023.  This nomination process will continue through the fall semester.  The election will begin in March 2023.  The installation and actual office responsibilities would take effect in late July 2023 at the annual conference. 

We are excited to announce that forty Eta Sigma Delta Honor Societies held Induction Ceremonies this past Spring. Together, the following schools inducted just short of 600 new honor society students! Congratulations to the following schools and the students and advisors they represent:

Friends of ICHRIE,

It is with overwhelming sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our ICHRIE President, friend, colleague, and leader, Dr. Lea R. Dopson. Lea passed away in her home this week and leaves an undeniable void in hospitality management education and in our ICHRIE family. Her legacy has been carved throughout the years in a profession that she has served, enhanced, loved, and led.