William F. Harrah College of Hospitality News
The William F. Harrah College of Hospitality provides students with one of the world’s best programs in the preparation of students for the global hospitality and leisure services profession.
Current Hospitality News

With a gaming-centered master’s degree newly in hand, UNLV Hospitality grad Margaret Simpson is bringing powerful leadership to her tribe’s Oregon casino.

Great places are made of great people. Here are a few who made the news in 2020.

As the pandemic tightened its grip on Nevada, the nation, and the world, UNLV responded in ways big and small. Members of the media also turned to UNLV's faculty experts for answers.

A sampling of university experts who sounded off on the year’s monumental movements surrounding race, ethnicity, and gender.

A yearlong collection of UNLV faculty making the news for their discoveries and contributions to the community.

A collection of news stories highlighting the election, COVID-19, and scientific discovery at UNLV.
Hospitality In The News
In previous parts of this series, we looked at the primary criticisms of higher education hospitality programs and the socioeconomic theories that attempt to define the value of those programs, to career success in general and to hospitality industry applications specifically.
In their entirety, the most-read hotel stories are a how-to guide of sorts for hoteliers looking to make the right investments for the current times. Operational efficiency, guest relations, contactless and future-proof technologies were among the common themes of 2020’s most read stories.

The Mirage will open the new year by shutting down totally from Mondays through Thursdays, MGM Resorts International announced Monday.
In the previous part, we explored the Human Capital Theory and the Credentialist Theory as potential explanations for the value of higher education in the hospitality industry. In this part, we’ll look at a third socioeconomic theory, the Job Market Signaling Theory.
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.
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.