The 2025 International CHRIE Global Research Marathon

Theme and Main Topics:

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.

Call for Case Studies

  ANNUAL CASE STUDY COMPETITION – 2025
by JOURNAL of HOSPITALITY & TOURISM CASES (JHTC)
An International CHRIE Journal.

The Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research (JHTR) is thrilled to announce the release of the special issue: "Above and Beyond: Advancing the Power of Experiences in Hospitality and Tourism." This special issue presents a fine collection of research dedicated to advancing the theoretical understanding and managerial knowledge around the design and management of hospitality and tourism experiences.

CHRIE FutureFund™ Celebrates Graduate Student Winners in Montreal

Your CHRIE FutureFund™ provided a $1,000 award to eight graduate students, enabling them to attend the 2024 ICHRIE Global Conference in Montreal. There were four Best Paper Winners from the 2024 Graduate Research Conference held at FIU in January, and four winners of the 2024 Dissertation Proposal Competition. One student, Juhwan Lim, from Kansas State University, won both awards.

The Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research (JHTR) has a new submission category, Registered Research, now open for submissions. JHTR is participating in the Center for Open Science registered reports initiative, called JHTR Registered Research (JRR). JRR are empirical studies whose introduction, methods, and proposed analyses have been reviewed before data collection. These papers go through a two-stage review process. Stage 1 is a peer review of the proposed study before data collection and Stage 2 is a peer review of the final paper once data collection and analyses are complete. If a JRR is accepted after the Stage 1 review, it will be in-principle accepted. This means that pending rigorous adherence to the protocol approved in the Stage 1 manuscript, the final paper will be accepted for publication after peer review by the same team of reviewers in Stage 2. Being fully equivalent to the regular submission category, JRRs are treated as regular research papers once published. As a publication, there is no difference whatsoever.

The editors of ICHRIE Research Reports are pleased to announce the second ICHRIE Research Reports Competition, sponsored by DePaul University, that will culminate with award presentations during the 2024 ICHRIE Global Conference. 

FULL DETAILS ABOUT THE COMPETITION

The purpose of ICHRIE Research Reports is to generate a series of peer-reviewed research reports (white papers) that are based on academic research findings that are targeted toward industry practitioners and policymakers. ICHRIE Research Reports translate academic research findings into practical applications that can make a difference in the hospitality and tourism industry.

   

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research has a new Call for Papers for a special issue themed, “The Emergence of New Work Paradigms: Shaping the Hospitality and Tourism Industry and Its Workforce”.

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!

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).     

 

The editors of ICHRIE Research Reports are pleased to announce the first ICHRIE Research Reports Competition, sponsored by DePaul University, that will culminate with award presentations during the 2023 Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference. 

The Third Annual International CHRIE Global Research Marathon in Collaboration with JHTR 

Interested? CLICK HERE to take the survey. 

SURVEY CLOSES 31 January 2023.

Objectives:

For many years, ICHRIE and its CHRIE FutureFund™ had supported Best Paper winners from the Graduate Education & Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality & Tourism by awarding complimentary registration to the ICHRIE Annual Conference to each student winner.  During Future Fund Committee meetings held in fall 2022, co-chairs Misty Johansen and Carl Winston encouraged committee members to think bigger in terms of Future Fund impact. At its December meeting, committee members voted unanimously to approve awarding each student Best Paper winner from the Graduate Conference with a $1,000 award voucher. The award voucher provided complimentary registration for the 2023 ICHRIE Annual Summer Conference in Phoenix, as well as allowing the respective winner to choose among a complimentary one-year ICHRIE membership, reimbursement of lodging in the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa during conference, or reimbursement of airfare to/from Phoenix, with total award maximum of $1,000.

The focus of this special issue is to seek scholarly submissions examining experience-related topics from various perspectives including (but not limited to) marketing, consumer behavior, accounting and finance, strategy, human resources, technology, supply chain, food and beverage, and planning and design for the hospitality and tourism industry.

 

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research has a new Call for Papers for a special issue focusing on Impacts of Future Technology on Hospitality and Tourism. You can find full information for this special issue from: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jht/cfp-impacts-future-technology.

 

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research just released its Call for Papers for a new special issue on 1 April 2022, and the full version of that Call for Papers can be found at: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jht/cfp-responsible-tourism-hospitality.