Stowe Shoemaker
Dean, Harrah College of Hospitality
Expertise: Casino marketing, Revenue management, Pricing, Consumer loyalty, Health care tourism
Biography
Stowe Shoemaker is the dean of the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at UNLV. Prior to being named dean, Shoemaker served as a Lincy Professor at UNLV and the Donald Hubbs Distinguished Professor at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel Administration at the University of Houston. For many years he was a member of the executive education faculty at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, and for a time he maintained an appointment in the Division of Diagnostic Imagery at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Throughout his career Shoemaker has helped game developers test market new casino games (both slot machines and table games), developed programs to measure customer satisfaction for casino and hotel firms, and modeled the success and failure of marketing promotions. He has taught marketing as well as the mathematics of casino games. He is currently helping write the strategic plan to bring health care tourism to Southern Nevada.
Shoemaker has an extensive background in strategic pricing, revenue management, and customer loyalty programs and has conducted research in these areas as well as in the hospitality in healthcare field.
His studies have appeared in the Journal of Pricing and Revenue Management, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administrative Quarterly, as well as several other academic journals and publications. Shoemaker has authored text books on hospitality marketing, published by Prentice Hall.
Education
- Ph.D., Services Marketing, Cornell University
- M.S., Hotel, Restaurant & Travel Administration, University of Massachusetts
- B.S., Business, University of Vermont
Stowe Shoemaker In The News
April 19, 2021
Hotels reliant on convention center business face a larger uphill climb returning to pre-pandemic levels than other business hotels, as businesses and other organizations slowly work their way back toward embracing traveling to large gatherings.
December 16, 2020
Dishcraft Robotics, an innovator in food and beverage operations for hotels, announced today its sponsorship of a white paper to present research and opinion by some of the hotel industry's leading lights. "Hospitality F&B Reimagined: A New Look at the Hotel Kitchen" suggests that increased operational efficiency, cost savings and the promotion of a more balanced, sustainable, human ecosystem on property may begin in an unexpected place: the hotel dishroom.
December 16, 2020
Dishcraft Robotics, an innovator in food and beverage operations for hotels, announced today its sponsorship of a white paper to present research and opinion by some of the hotel industry's leading lights. "Hospitality F&B Reimagined: A New Look at the Hotel Kitchen" suggests that increased operational efficiency, cost savings and the promotion of a more balanced, sustainable, human ecosystem on property may begin in an unexpected place: the hotel dishroom.
December 16, 2020
Dishcraft Robotics, an innovator in food and beverage operations for hotels, announced today its sponsorship of a white paper to present research and opinion by some of the hotel industry's leading lights. "Hospitality F&B Reimagined: A New Look at the Hotel Kitchen" suggests that increased operational efficiency, cost savings and the promotion of a more balanced, sustainable, human ecosystem on property may begin in an unexpected place: the hotel dishroom.
Articles Featuring Stowe Shoemaker
Campus News | May 11, 2021
A collection of news stories highlighting remembrance, recovery, and progress at UNLV.
Campus News | October 9, 2020
Diversity, safety, and success become the foundation for UNLV.
Campus News | September 10, 2020
College receives $5 million gift from Panda Express co-founders Andrew and Peggy Cherng to support new program in rapidly growing field.
Campus News | March 5, 2020
A collection of news stories from February highlighting the people and research of UNLV.