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Research in Hospitality Management (RHM)  is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing research articles that make an original contribution to the understanding of hospitality and to the theory and practice of international hospitality management. 

Substantive Topic Reviews, Short Communications, Viewpoints, Book Reviews and Discussion Papers will also be considered.

The journal focuses on three main areas:

1) "Hospitality (Management) Studies", includes articles related to the study of and the study for hospitality. The study of hospitality refers to studies about the essence and ethics of hospitality from a social sciences perspective, while the study for hospitality refers to the quintessential managerial disciplines of Finance, Human Resources, Operations, Marketing & Sales, and Technology;

2) "Hospitality Management Education" is devoted to articles about curriculum content and delivery methods for training and educating hospitality managers. Considering the size and scope of the hospitality industry, and the number of staff and students involved, studies on efficient, effective, and innovative ways of developing hospitality competencies are considered indispensable;

3) "Student Research Projects" considers excellent student work relating to Bachelor's or Master's research projects and theses.

Submissions undergo double anonymized peer review and the decision of the Editor-in-Chief is final.

All articles are made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication, under a Creative Commons attribution agreement ( CC BY 4.0). No charges are levied for publication as article processing charges (APCs) are sponsored by the Academy of International Hospitality Research, Hotel Management School, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.

*Please note that Research in Hospitality Management converted to a fully Open Access journal beginning with Volume 6 (2016). Volumes 1 to 5 are free to access.

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