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William F. Harrah College of Hospitality News

The William F. Harrah College of Hospitality is among the highest ranked hospitality management programs in the world. By blending classroom and real-world experience, our students receive a well-rounded and affordable pathway towards a successful career.

Current Hospitality News

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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Campus News |

Plus: Watch the Spring 2026 Commencement recap video.

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People |

The newest Rebel grads reflect on their time at UNLV and share what the future holds.

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Business and Community |

Promoting the game and serving the community go hand in glove for UNLV golf management students.

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Arts and Culture |

As BTS returns to Las Vegas for a new world tour, UNLV's K-pop Club turns a shared interest into a student community.

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Campus News |

A flowery collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

Hospitality In The News

KSNV-TV: News 3

As summer approaches, Las Vegas casinos and resorts downtown and on the Las Vegas Strip are rolling out staycation deals aimed at locals looking for a getaway without the cost of airfare or long road trips.

CDC Gaming

Some of you remember my long-running disagreement with UNLV professor Dr. Anthony Lucas on whether players can actually feel changes in slot hold. My position: they can over time. His position: proven research says they can’t. And frankly, his data is better than mine. But I still can’t shake the feeling I’m right. Some fresh numbers just gave me a little bit more ammunition.

Travel Weekly

Within the span of just a week, the two largest casino-resort operators on the Las Vegas Strip became targets of multibillion-dollar acquisitions.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Labor leaders and hospitality experts say most frontline employees are unlikely to face immediate impacts from the proposed transactions, though corporate and management positions could face greater scrutiny as new owners evaluate costs and operations.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Labor leaders and hospitality experts say most frontline employees are unlikely to face immediate impacts from the proposed transactions, though corporate and management positions could face greater scrutiny as new owners evaluate costs and operations.

KSNV-TV: News 3

For decades, the lights of Primm served as a welcome sign for travelers crossing from California into Nevada, signaling that Las Vegas was just ahead. Now, that tradition is set to come to an end.

Hospitality Experts

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An expert on management and consumer behavior.
An expert in hospitality employee behaviors, leadership, turnover, and employee-robot interactions.
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Recent Hospitality Accomplishments

Cass Shum (Hospitality) and her coauthors received the First Runner-Up Best Paper Award at APacCHRIE 2026 in Osaka, Japan, for their paper titled "Deontic justice for robots: How and when employees’ robot abuse  affects customers’ revisit and negative word-of-mouth."
Hyelin (Lina) Kim (UNLV Hospitality) and her coauthors—Sung-Eun Kim from Kyungpook National University and UNLV Hospitality Ph.D. alumna, Zhenxian Piao from the University of Central Florida, and Seokhyun (Sean) Kim (Hospitality)—received the Second Runner-Up Best Paper Award at APacCHRIE 2026 in Osaka, Japan, for their paper titled "Virtual…
Mana Azizsoltani (Hospitality) & Ismael Gomez-Talal (International Gaming Institute) published an article titled 'Building a brief multidomain questionnaire for gambling dual disorder: Psychometric validation and RDoC-based dimensional structure' in the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. This study yielded a…
UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality was recently ranked the #1 Hospitality & Hotel Management school in the world by CEOWORLD Magazine. The College of Hospitality topped numerous premier institutions, including Cornell, Penn State, and Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management. The ranking is based on seven weighted metrics that…
Emma Hwang, Billy Bai, and Mehmet Erdem (all Hospitality) have published their study titled 'Service robot technologies as social actors: a systematic review' in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology. The study aimed to explore service robotic technologies from a social actor’s perspective and examine the role of service robots in the…
Juliana R. V. Tkatch (Hospitality) is the leading author of the research article, "I Want to Come Back! The Role of Events in Attraction Image, Revisit Intention, and Loyalty" in Event Management which explored the impact of event participation on visitor perceptions, place attachment, and long-term loyalty within the tourism industry. The…