CHME 2016
The Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management within the Ulster University Business School is proud to host the 25th Council for Hospitality Management's Annual Research Conference in May 2016.
CHME 2016 seeks to explore the dimensions of innovation and customer-centricity in hospitality.
We encourage contributions that address future orientated and customer focused research in hospitality theory, practice and education.
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Call for papers
We invite the submission of research papers and posters on the following themes:
- Hospitality Management
- Critical and Cultural Studies of Hospitality
- Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Hospitality Management Education
- Innovation and the Food & Beverage Consumer
- Niche Tourism
The deadline for submissions is January 15 2016 and should be submitted to chme2016@gmail.com
Conference Programme and Workshops
Important documents
Sponsors
Keynote speakers
Dr Ian Yeoman
Dr Ian Yeoman is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington who has a passion for the study of the future of tourism and hospitality and believes that everything on Star Trek will come true.
Ian has a PhD from Edinburgh Napier University and is studying towards a higher doctorate at Sheffield Hallam University based upon the idea of explanation or not and truth or not when constructing scenarios.
Ian is editor of the Journal of Revenue & Pricing Management co-editor of the Journal of Tourism Futures and, author and co-editor of 17 books including the 'Future of Food Tourism', '2050: Tomorrows Tourism'; 'Tomorrows Tourist; The Future of Events and Festivals and a large collection of papers.
Ian holds Visiting Professor posts at Ulster University and the European Tourism Futures Institute.
He lives on the Kapiti coast with his family and is New Zealand's largest importer of Sunderland AFC football memorabilia."
Professor Peter Walker
Peter Walker is Professor of Architecture and Head of the Belfast School of Architecture.
Before joining Ulster University he taught part time at Newcastle University alongside being a director of Devereux Architects, one of the largest healthcare architects in the UK.
Prior to that he lived in London where he was a director of Conran Design Group a company established and led by leading British designer Sir Terence Conran.
During this time he worked on a number of hotel, restaurant and arts projects including work at the Royal Festival Hall, Bibendum Restaurant and Gatwick North Terminal.
Peter has been an adviser to the Egyptian Government on sustainable design, a consultant architect to the North East England Development Corporation, an adviser to Northumberland County Council on the regeneration of five towns in the former Northumberland coalfields, and has been an expert witness on over forty cases of architectural professional negligence.
He is presently an independent advisor to the Architects Registration Board – the UK regulator for architecture, on the Councils of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects and on the council of SCHOSA – the Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture.
His teaching and research interest is in the management of architecture and the process of architectural design and in British Architecture in the 50s and 60s.
Dr Francesca Zampollo
Francesca is a Food Design researcher and consultant.
Francesca has a PhD in Design Theory applied to Food Design and is an award winning Food Designer. She is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Food Design published by Intellect.
In 2009 Francesca founded the International Food Design Society, and since then organized the First International Symposium on Food Experience Design (London, November 2010), the International Conference on Designing Food and Designing for Food (London, June 2012) which was the first academic conference on Food Design, and the Second International Conference on Food Design (New York, November 2015).
Francesca is currently working full time on her project In Search of Meaningful Food; she is travelling the world to collect stories of people's most meaningful food, in an attempt to capture the beautiful nature of meaningful food and the deep relationship we have with it.
Prices
Option 1 - Early Bird
Members: £290
Non-Members / Industry: £350
(Institute of Hospitality £330)
Students: £230
Date: 4 May 2016 to 6 May 2016
The full conference package includes the drinks reception at the Belfast City Hall on Wednesday.
The refreshment provided at the venue throughout the conference proceedings (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) and the Thursdays Gala Dinner at Belfast Harbour Commission offices.
Option 2 - Full
Members: £320
Non-Members / Industry: £380 (Institute of Hospitality £350)
Students: £250
Start Date: 4 May 2016 to 6 May 2016
The full conference package includes the drinks reception at the Belfast City Hall on Wednesday.
The refreshment provided at the venue throughout the conference proceedings (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) and the Thursdays Gala Dinner at Belfast Harbour Commission offices.
Option 3 - 1 ½ Day
Members: £250
Non-Members / Industry: £300 (Institute of Hospitality £275)
Students: £230
Start Date: 4 May 2016 to 5 May 2016
The 1 ½ delegate rate includes the refreshment provided at the venue throughout the conference proceedings (Wednesday and Thursday) and the Thursdays Gala Dinner at Belfast Harbour Commission offices.
Option 4 - 1 ½ Day
Members: £250
Non-Members / Industry: £300 (Institute of Hospitality £275)
Students: £230
Start Date: 5 May 2016 to 6 May 2016
The 1 ½ delegate rate includes the refreshment provided at the venue throughout the conference proceedings (Thursday and Friday) and the Thursdays Gala Dinner at Belfast Harbour Commission offices.
Option 5 - 1 Day
Members: £215
Non-Members / Industry: £260 (Institute of Hospitality £235)
Students: £170
Start Date: 5 May 2016
The 1 day delegate rate includes the refreshment provided at the venue throughout the conference proceedings on Thursday and Thursdays Gala Dinner at Belfast Harbour Commission offices.
Option 6 - Core Conference
Members: £150
Non-Members / Industry: £180 (Institute of Hospitality £165)
Students: £120
Start Date: 5 May 2016
The core delegate rate includes the refreshment provided at the venue throughout the conference proceedings on Thursday.
Option 7 - Gala Dinner Only
Members: £70
Non-Members / Industry: £70
Students: £70
Start Date: 5 May 2016
Gala Dinner at Belfast Harbour Commission offices.
Option 8 - Optional Titanic Tour
Price £12
Start Date: 4 May 2016
Travel
This event is being held at the Belfast campus of Ulster University.
Ulster University – Belfast Campus
25-51 York St,
Belfast,
County Antrim
BT15 1ED
Accommodation
Belfast today is a thriving city of modern commerce, great food and many great tourism sights and experiences.
Accommodation is plentiful, download a brief guide to some of the main hotels situated close to the University Campus and offering special rates for conference delegates.