Student Perceptions of Engagement in a Mandatory Programatic Service Learning

In the hospitality industry, service-learning opportunities are particularly important for students seeking work in the meeting and event planning industry. Faculty of a hospitality program at a regional university in East Texas decided to investigate the benefits in embedding service learning activities to their hospitality courses. The study investigated student perceptions of their participation in compulsory service learning assignments were created and implemented. Service learning assignment benefited the respondents personally; it benefited the sponsoring organization; it benefited the respondents’ career goals and their own individual awareness of community issues

Cultural Festival Improves Quality of Life in the Community

A study of the Germanfest in Syracuse Nebraska and its impact on the local community\u27s quality of life

Event Planner Sensitivity to the Needs of Individuals with Visual Disability at Meetings and Events

Special events, such as fairs, conventions, ballgames, and concerts are typically activities people attend to participate in the festivities and enjoy with friends and family members. For individuals with disabilities, however, these types of events can create more challenges than enjoyment. Despite a thorough review of the literature, no studies were found which evaluated the experiences of individuals who are blind and have visual impairments at events and meetings. The aim of this study was to determine the current level of accessibility at meetings perceived by consumers who are blind and visually impaired. Respondents to the survey indicated many obstacles to accessing meetings including: discrimination, a paucity of accessible features, and accessibility features that are not truly accessible for consumers who are blind and visually impaired. Recommendations are provided for increasing meeting and event accessibility for consumers who are blind and visually impaired

The Effect of Cooking Classes on Older Adults Resiliency

Research Question: Are there older adults\u27 resilience differences before the cooking class, during the cooking class, and after the cooking class

Hispanic college students’ health and lifestyle

The purpose of this study is to further expand the understanding of how Hispanic college students’ life styles influence their health. The research design employed a cross-sectional survey approach utilizing the purposive sample of 116 Hispanic undergraduate students (62 men, 54 women, all lived in the dormitory during the semester) at a university in Texas. The results indicated that there is a significant difference between Hispanic male and female college students in their life styles. In addition there is a significant relationship between health and life styles of Hispanic male and female students. It is necessary to have amacro-level of public awareness providing healthy life style in college life

Ethnic Culture and Family Relations in Later Life

The current research was done in order to examine the relationships of older adults. It was hypothesized that older adults’ ethnic culture will have effects on their family relationships. Results showed that older adults’ ethnic culture has an effects on family relations

Healthy Training Program for Hospitality & Tourism Employees

This honors project is designed to evaluate the wellness of current hospitality human resource departments and how it can be adapted to assist employees of the hospitality industry. Health has been placed on the back burner of many companies\u27 priorities and has negatively impacted the hospitality industry. This study is to analyze some current health programs in place and to investigate how new methods can be implemented to encourage health within the human resources department and therein, to its employees

Implementing Sustainable Meal Planning Practices Through Meal Mentoring at an East Texas Food Bank Sponsored Location

Objectives Participants being able to identify key terms on a food label. That the participants will have an awareness of healthful portion sizes. That the participants will be able to demonstrate this knowledge. This was accomplished by an initial assessment, a review and a post assessment. Each interview period had a discussion time and nutrition information was disseminated. Each participant received a one on one mentoring with the researcher covering basic nutrition content of foods during each interview

Study to Examine the Preparation and Training of Hospitality Expatriate Executives

This study solicited information from the members of the International Hotel and Restaurant Association (IH&RA) to examine the preparation and training of hospitality expatriate executives for a successful assignment overseas. The survey was developed as a self-administered instrument in three parts. The first part asked questions related to respondents' professional background that dealt with overseas experience and hospitality experience. The second part asked questions about the extent that the respondents possess the attributes of a hospitality expatriate executives, the management skills that respondents should possess and the effectiveness of the cross-cultural training activities that parent company provided. The third section of the questionnaire asked questions about the demographics that dealt with gender, age, annual income, and position of the expatriate executive. Findings and Conclusions: The majority of the respondents were between the ages of 51 to 60 years old, male, married and highly educated (most of them had graduate degree). They had prior overseas experience, had worked in the host country for six months and they worked in luxury hotel properties. There was a broad variation in professional backgrounds, years of international experience, and expatriate assignments across the respondents. Exploratory factor analysis generated three components of a model for a successful hospitality expatriate assignment. These three components or factors were personal competencies, global management skills, and expatriate adjustment. Independent samples t test revealed that seven cross-cultural training activities provided by the parent company were effective. And One-Way Analysis of Variance indicated that management skills vary according to the location of the parent company and country of origin of the hospitality expatriate executives.The findings of this study suggested that the success of an overseas assignment was determined by personal competencies, global management skills and expatriate adjustment. However, it was not verified which of these factors would influence successful expatriate assignment. In addition, cross cultural training should be taken into account.School of Hotel and Restaurant Administratio