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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.
We are excited to announce over 30 Eta Sigma Delta Honor Societies held induction ceremonies during the 2022 Fall semester. Together, the following schools inducted just short of 500 new honor society students!
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 29th and 30th. 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.
Leading networks for responsible hospitality and global education for hospitality and tourism have formed a co-operation agreement to create innovative solutions for advancing sustainability in the hospitality sector. The agreement between the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (the Alliance) and the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) was announced at the Alliance’s Net Positive Summit in London on 11 October.
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.
AN ICHRIE MEMBER HIGHLIGHT
Last week, Fran Brasseux, ICHRIE Executive Director, had the honor of visiting Dr. Ajay Aluri at West Virginia University's John Chambers College of Business and Economics, Hospitality and Tourism Management program in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. There are so many exciting things happing at WVU, and we wanted to share them with you...
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.
On 30 JUNE 2022 the Sustainability & Innovation SIG hosted the webinar, "Sustainability on the Ground: Practices, Education & Resources" that highlighted urban global hotel brands path to low impact to ecolodges protecting biodiversity-rich destinations, action is the name of the game.
WASHINGTON (June 15, 2022) –The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), the AHLA Foundation, and the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) today announced a new strategic partnership, with the shared goal of growing the future workforce of the hotel and hospitality industry.
The announcement comes at a critical time for the hotel industry. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in May 2022 employment in the broader leisure and hospitality industry was down more than 1.3 million jobs compared to before the pandemic. Hotels are looking to fill many of those jobs. In a May 2022 survey of AHLA members, 97% said their hotels are understaffed, including 49% severely understaffed.
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:
Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research has a new Call for Papers for a special issue focusing on Impacts of Future Technology on Hospitality and Tourism. You can find full information for this special issue from: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jht/cfp-impacts-future-technology.
A bold, intentional initiative is underway among higher education institutions to build a strategically aligned alliance to address the needs of and create a pathway for talented lower socio-economic Black high school and community college students to pursue a hospitality management degree. The program is tentatively named the DEI Alliance.
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.
Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research just released its Call for Papers for a new special issue on 1 April 2022, and the full version of that Call for Papers can be found at: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jht/cfp-responsible-tourism-hospitality.
Greetings from Connecticut!
a ICHRIE & NRAEF ProStart webinar presents
