The Hospitality Research Centre
The Hospitality Research Centre is the research unit of Hotelschool The Hague. It is our aim to provide relevant and timely insights to hospitality professionals and students. The Research Centre has published studies about topics such as hospitable behavior, revenue management, Airbnb and ‘sharing’, overtourism, sustainable consumer behavior and circularity in hotels, the design of hospitality education and the application of hospitality principles in other sectors. Our researchers do independent academic research, applied projects for businesses and they frequently speak at international academic and professional conferences.

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A special canvas session in Robohouse with students of the minor Future of Digitization

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Sustainable Urban Tourism lectors’ platform receives SIA subsidy

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How can tourism be a positive influencer for sustainable and welcoming destinations?

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The Yearly Overview of our Hospitality Research Centre is out!

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Hospitality competencies facilitating diplomatic relationship building

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From marketeer in the energy industry to professor Technological Innovation at HTH
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Research areas
The research at Hotelschool The Hague revolves around the following key questions for the hospitality profession:
- What is hospitality and what is hospitable behaviour?
- What is the future of hospitality?
These questions are addressed by our researchers in different research lines:
City Hospitality* Strategic Foresight * Business Resilience * Circularity and Responsible Consumer Behaviour * Sustainable Talent Management * Technological innovation in hospitality *
City Hospitality

City Hospitality research focuses on hospitable encounters between host and guest and their experiences.
Strategic Foresight

Detecting trends and developments that are, or will become of interest to hospitality professionals.
Technological Innovation

The research line will revolve around the introduction of automations and robotization in the hospitality industry.
Working papers
Research in progress by Hotelschool The Hague students and faculty is published in the Working Paper series. These Working Papers are meant to contribute to the debate, to inspire other students and researchers and to showcase student research.
Who we are

Jeroen Oskam
Director Research Centre

Anna de Visser-Amundson
Research Fellow in Consumer Choice Behaviour

Karoline Wiegerink
Professor of City Hospitality & City Marketing

Jan Huizing
Research Fellow in City Hospitality & City Marketing

Arjan van Rheede
Senior Research Fellow in Research Methodology

Yasemin Oruc
Marketing & Innovation Lecturer and Research Fellow

David Brannon
Research Fellow in Sustainable Talent Management

Boukje de Boer
Research Fellow

Klaas Koerten
Research Fellow

Alexander Schmidt
Professor of Technological Innovation in Hospitality

Ahmet Vatan
Visiting Research Fellow

Stefania Ntregka
Research Fellow

Isabel Son
Research Fellow

Daphne Maria Dekker
Professor of Hospitality and Hospitable Behaviour
Contact
Do you have any questions? Please reach out to us via research@hotelschool.nl