Call for Undergraduate and Master Students Research- Students’ Hospitality Excellence Conference

Executive Committee of the Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME) 2018 Research Conference  Bournemouth, UK 22–25 May 2018

Dear Students,

BU Department of Tourism & Hospitality will be hosting the CHME 2018 Annual Research Conference in May. The Conference theme is “Innovation in hospitality: Connecting all stakeholders to deliver memorable experiences“. To foster high quality research from undergraduate and master students, CHME 2018 is organizing a special session and inviting students from all over the world to showcase their research outputs. Meanwhile, we are offering three Best Research Paper Awards for students joining this session.

We would like to invite our students in all levels to submit your piece of research work. It can be your final year dissertation, course work, or other relevant work. As a student in Faculty of Management, you can benefit: 1) the registration fee will be waved for our own students (originally it is 190GBP); 2) Free meals and drinks (those included in the registration only); 3) publication opportunities (three awards for publication in different journals); 4) and a lot of social opportunities with the industry leaders and academic professionals.

The following is the requirement of the submission. Any inquiries about the paper submission or review process should be sent to Dr. Daisy Fan.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The deadline for internal submission is Sunday 25 March, 2018. All the submissions should be sent to CHME2018papersubmissions@bournemouth.ac.uk

1. There are two files to be submitted. Cover Page includes authors’ names and affiliations. The Extended Abstract should be up to 1,500 words, including research objectives, literature review, methodology, key findings (if available), and conclusion (typed, double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font).

2. A Best Paper Review Committee will conduct a refereed review of the submissions. Award winning students will be invited to submit their full papers to a peer-reviewed journal.

RESEARCH THEMES

This morning Dr Sean Beer was much in demand on BBC radio discussing the impact of the snow and storm Emma on food supplies in supermarkets.  Sean maintained that pictures from across the UK of empty supermarket shelves were just another example of the vulnerability of our food supply chains.  This was hot on the heels of ‘nugget’ shortages and problems with meat supply to other high street eateries.  Sean described a food supply chain that was long, complicated and therefore at risk of disruption, with half of a supermarkets food on the shelves and half in lorries on the way to the shops.

Having said this by the end of the week consumers will have forgotten the shortages, just as they have forgotten foot and mouth and the horsemeat scandal.  What is needed is a wholesale review of the food systems that underpin our lives; from economic, social and environmental perspectives, but people have short memories and do they really care?  After all, as Sean Says, if he came up to you and asked to put his fingers in your mouth you would call a policeman; yet every day we put food into our mouths without a second thought as to where it has come from!