Conrad Lashley holds the Professorship in Hospitality Studies in the Academy of International Hospitality Research at Stenden University of Applied Science, the Netherlands. He has held professorial appointments at several UK universities, and regularly makes keynote research presentations in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Sweden as well as in Great Britain. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, and has published over a hundred papers in refereed research journals and sets of conference proceedings. He is currently co-editor of Research in Hospitality Management and Editor Emeritus of Hospitality & Society. He has worked extensively within the industry and generated commercial income from research and consultancy, as well as in-company management programmes. His research interests are principally concerned with understanding the meanings of hospitableness as a social phenomenon that has significance for commercial provision.

1. Introduction: research on hospitality: the story so far/ways of knowing hospitality
Conrad Lashley

Part I Disciplinary perspectives

2. Sociological perspectives on hospitality
Roy C. Wood

3. The geographies of hospitality
David Bell

4. Levinas hospitality and the feminine other
Kim Meijer-van Wijk

5. The philosophies of hospitableness
Elizabeth Telfer

6. The hospitality trades: a social history
John K. Walton

7. Hospitality - a synthetic approach
Bob Brotherton

8. Dinner sharing: casual hospitality in the collaborative economy
Szilvia Gyimóthy

9. Religious perspectives on hospitality
Conrad Lashley

10. Hospitality and social ties: an interdisciplinary reflexive journey for the psychology of hospitality
Marcia Maria Cappellano dos Santos, Olga Araujo Perazzolo, Siloe Pereira and Isabel Baptista

11. Hospitalities: Circe writes back
Judith Still

12. On the hospitality of cannibals
Ruud Welten

13. An Asian ethics of hospitality: hospitality in Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist philosophy
Martine Berenpas

14. Observing hospitality speech patterns
Leanne Schreurs

Part II Experiencing hospitality

15. Hospitality, migration and cultural assimilation: the case of the Irish in Australia
Barry O'Mahoney

16. Women experience hospitality as travelers and leaders
Judi Brownell

17. Hospitality employment: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Shobana Nair Partington

18. Consuming hospitality
Peter Lugosi

19. Hospitality and presumption
George Ritzer

20. Liquid hospitality: wine as the metaphor
Sjoerd Gehrels

21. Hospitality, territory and identity: reflections from community tourism in Aventureiro Village, Ilha Grande/RJ, Brazil.
Helena Catão Henriques Ferreira and Aguinaldo César Fratucci

22. Fluid Hospitality in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Bastienne Bernasco

Part III Hospitality through time and space

23. Hunter and gatherer hospitality in Africa
Victoria N. Ruiter

24. The gift theory of Marcel Mauss and the potlatch ritual: a triad of hospitality
Leandro Benedini Brusadin

25. Hospitality, sanitation services and immigration: leprosarium and hostels for immigrants in Brazil
Ana Paula Garcia Spolon

26. Experiencing hospitality and hospitableness in different cultures
Javed Suleri

27. Transcending the limits of hospitality: the case of Mount Athos and the offering of Philoxenia
Prokopis Christou

28. Fifty shades of hospitality: exploring intimacies Korean love motels
Desmond Wee and Ko Koens

29. Hospitality between the sheets: leisure and sexual entertainment for tourists in large urban centres in Brazil
Ricardo Lanzarini and Luiz Gonzaga Godoi Trigo

Part IV Sustainable hospitality

30. Creating value for all: sustainability in hospitality
Elena Cavagnaro

31. Liberating wage slaves: towards sustainable employment practices
Conrad Lashley

32. Hospitality studies: developing philosophical practitioners?
Conrad Lashley

33. Conclusion: hospitality and beyond...