EuroCHRIE 2025 Conference Wrap-Up

The Hague, The Netherlands | 10–13 November 2025
Theme: Hospitality & Tourism Innovation: Exploring Inspiration Across Industry Lines

Highlights from APacCHRIE2025 in Chiang Mai, Thailand

The APacCHRIE2025 Conference brought together a vibrant community of hospitality and tourism educators, researchers, and industry leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. With over 320 delegates representing 27+ countries/regions and 50+ organizations, the event was a powerful display of collaboration, innovation, and global connection.

Racing, Research, & Results: #ICHRIE2025 in Indy Was Unforgettable!

The 2025 ICHRIE Global Conference in Indianapolis, held 18–20 June 2025 and co‑located with HITEC®, brought together hospitality and tourism educators, researchers, and industry leaders for three dynamic days of innovation, connection, and celebration at the JW Marriott IndyPlace.

ICHRIE GOING FULL THROTTLE

Indianapolis is one of the highest ranked conference cities in the USA, and we can see why!!

Last week, Fran Brasseux (ICHRIE CEO), Kim Williams (ICHRIE President), Page Ksionska (Conference Consultant), and Darla Hancock (ICHRIE Communications & Networking Specialist) visited the JW Marriott Indy Place and the Indiana State Museum - as well as lunched with Jeff Robinson (Managing Director of Marketing at Visit Indy) at the iconic Harry & Izzy’s and spent an evening at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse for a NBA Indiana Pacers basketball game with Visit Indy and the Indianapolis Convention Center, one of the largest in the Midwest.

ICHRIE Eta Sigma Delta (ESD) ΗΣΔ Undergraduate Research Symposium
20-21 February 2025 

DAY ONE

Opening Keynote

CHRIE FutureFund™ Recognizes Best Paper Winners

The 30th Annual Graduate Education & Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality & Tourism was held at the University of Houston 2-4 January 2025. A record attendance of 422 witnessed numerous refereed paper presentations and posters.

The CHRIE FutureFund™ has for several years provided the Best Paper Winners with a $1,000 award, including complimentary registration to the 2025 ICHRIE Annual Global Conference, as well as a complimentary ICHRIE membership.

COMPETITION SUBMISSION PERIOD CLOSED

ICHRIE Research Reports Competition & Publication Series

Sponsored by DePaul University

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Guidelines for the Competition

It’s Time to Celebrate Excellence: Nominate for the 2025 International CHRIE Awards!

As the year comes to a close, it's the perfect moment to recognise and celebrate the incredible contributions of your colleagues. Starting December 1, 2024, nominations for the prestigious 2025 International CHRIE Awards will officially open. Let’s honour those who make a difference—perhaps even yourself!

Who Can Be Nominated?

Any current International CHRIE member, with the following exceptions:

 

2024 CentralCHRIE Conference

The 2024 CentralCHRIE Conference, held online on November 8th, brought together a dynamic community of scholars, educators, industry leaders, and students to explore the theme, “Innovating Hospitality and Tourism: Embracing Technology and Sustainability.” With 64 participants representing 24 institutions, this year’s conference provided an engaging platform for collaborations and innovations. Attendees participated in 30 research presentations and one keynote address.

Congratulations to everyone on the successful conclusion of the EuroCHRIE 2024 Conference, held from November 4–7 in Doha, Qatar, with the theme “Hospitality and Tourism in a New Era: Building Bridges and Overcoming Challenges.” Hosted by Al Rayyan International University College (ARIU). The conference provided an inspiring and impactful platform, featuring concurrent sessions, interactive workshops, insightful keynote presentations, and, last but not least, enriching cultural exchanges. 

The conference brought together over 150 participants from more than 35 countries, spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the USA, and Asia. The program addressed vital topics in hospitality and tourism, including sustainability, digital transformation, cultural integration, and leadership. From workshops for young scholars and PhD students to the EuroCHRIE board meeting, participants engaged in learning experiences that set a dynamic tone for the event.

Dear Delegates and Hotel, Restaurant, Institution and Tourism Professionals,

Around the World in 80 Minutes, a pre-conference webinar with SHARE Center

Wednesday, 10 July 2024

The NENA CHRIE Federation held its spring regional conference this year at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, ME from 4-6 April 2024. The conference was a remarkable success, not even a winter storm could stop our NENA colleagues from getting together for a weekend of learning and networking!

THAT’S A WRAP!

The 9^th Annual SECSACHRIE Conference, hosted by the College of Hospitality, Retail & Sport Management at the University of South Carolina (USC), under the theme Where history, culture and southern hospitality meet, was a resounding success. During the two days, we networked with, participated in, and listened to 63 presentations from 27 universities and companies, alongside 97 conference attendees and participants. We saw a record number of pedagogy presentations as the SECSA community continues to celebrate research and content in this area. 

We extend our profound gratitude to Mr. Troy Flanagan of the AHLA for his informative and eye-opening keynote address reviewing issues surrounding staffing, as we embrace our role as educators in providing exceptional employees for our industry. Our industry panel was diverse, covering the legal, lodging, beverage and DMO components of our industry. I quote the industry panel moderator and Director of Research, Dr. Wei Wei:

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am ecstatic to share that the 2024 WFCHRIE Conference hosted by Metropolitan State University - Denver was a great success. This year’s theme “Explore the World of Hospitality” was designed and executed by MSU-Denver students under faculty guidance.

Submission Opening Information International CHRIE is excited to announce that submissions will be accepted soon for the 2024 ICHRIE Global Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada!

 

On behalf of the CentralCHRIE Board of Directors, and the 2023 conference planning team, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual for making the CentralCHRIE conference, in conjunction with the Spirit of Hospitality Summit at Purdue University, a success. The 2023 CentralCHRIE conference was held at Purdue University October 19-20.

Dear EuroCHRIE colleagues,

CHRIE FutureFund™ Thanks ICHRIE Members

CHRIE FutureFund™ had a very successful Annual Conference in Phoenix and thank all ICHRIE members who supported CHRIE FutureFund™ initiatives.  The leadership of co-chairs Misty Johanson and Carl Winston resulted in the support of five (5) doctoral students attending the Annual Conference as winners of the inaugural Dissertation Competition, and four (4) Best Paper Winners from the Graduate Conference held last January. The return of the highly anticipated Duck Race drew a raucous crowd around the Lazy River at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa and raised just shy of $2,000.  The annual 50-50 Raffle raised a record $4,060. Along with the $4,000 donation to support the Grad Conference Best Paper Winners, your Future Fund raised approximately $10,000 to date in 2023. This achievement would not be possible without your support.
 
The CHRIE FutureFund™ has identified support for graduate education and the support of graduate students as a primary objective. Graduate students are the future professoriate, so supporting our future helps ensure member institutions have qualified, talented individuals on their teams, and these future faculty will become leaders within their respective programs and ICHRIE. Over the next several weeks we will introduce you to the individual doctoral students we supported this year.  Each has a wonderful story to tell, and each will be a terrific addition to any hospitality program. For now, we share the work for which each won their respective award.
 

Graduate Conference Best Paper Winners:

Barbara Atanga & Lavi Peng – Customer misbehavior: The joint impact of a symbolic recovery strategy and cultural tightness-looseness on observing customers’ recovery satisfaction (along with supervising professor Anna Mattila) The Pennsylvania State University.
 
Araceli Hernandez Calderon – Theory-driven predictive modeling for food-service crowdfunding success: An integrated approach with business intelligence and supervised machine learning (along with supervising professors Yoon Koh & Minwoo Lee) University of Houston.
 
Wangoo Lee – Examining the “waiting line” effect during menu ordering with self-service technologies (along with supervising professor Lu Lu) Temple University.
 

Dissertation Proposal Winners:

 
Hamzeh Hammadeen – Leveraging the distinct competencies of highly skilled immigrant employees in hotels (Auburn University).
 
Wenfang Liu – An exploration on ghost kitchen business model: Kitchen rental firms and entrepreneurs' investment motivation (University of Houston).
 
Swechchha Subedi – Conceptualization of governance in H & T and the role of trust (University of South Carolina).
 
Nan Xue – The paradoxical relationship between minimalism and tourists’ pro-environmental choices (The Chinese University of Hong Kong).
 
Rachel Yueqian Zhang – Restaurant demand seasonality: Measurement, drivers, and external shocks (Purdue University).     

 

2023 Annual Deans & Directors Meeting Deans & Directors... Be on the lookout for your invitation to this summer's events just for you on Wednesday, 19 July 2023 at JW Marriott Desert Ridge, Phoenix, Arizona! We look forward to linking with you, so be sure to add these events to your conference schedule... PROGRAM at 9:00 AM - Thanks to ICHRIE's Co-Sponsor, Northern Arizona University LUNCH at 12:15 PM - Thanks to ICHRIE's Co-Sponsor, AHLEI