The international hospitality industry is rather competitive and dynamic in nature. The hotel school has, therefore, a direct interest to investigate real-life management phenomena. Research results lead to new insights and knowledge innovations, shich are key to the attainment of excellence in the curriculum, and which form the basis for future leadership in an industry that increasingly places higher demands on its managers.

 

About the Research Centre

In 2010 Hotelschool The Hague has founded a school-wide research Centre. This Centre is encouraging interdisciplinary research with a strong practice-oriented focus, an (inter)national collaborative dimensions. The Centre is anticipated to become a major driven of the integration of programmed research, innovations in industry practice, and the educational program.

 

Vision, Mission and Strategic Ambition 

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Research-chairs and priorities

Research at hotelschool The Hague is methodologically impeccable, relevant to professional real-life practice, and contributes to the further improvement and innovation of it. The Centre works on international scientific projects but also has a keen interest in providing, for example, new solutions to concrete practical problems of regional SMEs. The research is interdisciplinary in nature and often carried out in a consortium with external partners.

Research in the Centre is organised via research Chairs (in Dutch: Lectoraten) which are professional appointments in specific hospitality management field. Hotelschool The Hague currently has three research Chairs, focussing on special fields:

• Human Resource Management
• Business in Hospitality
• City Hospitality & City Marketing

Each Chair involves final responsibility for the design, development, quality and excecution of research, doctoral supervision, faculty professionalising, knowledge circulation, utilisation, valorisation and curriculum innovation. A Chair professor is responsible for the management and co-ordination of all chair research.

 

Introduction to the Chair of Human Resource Management

 

Introduction to the Chair Business in Hospitality

 

Introduction to the Chair City Hospitality & City Marketing