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Department of Hospitality, Food, and Beverage Management News

With a strong focus on strategic management and operations, the Department of Hospitality Management prepares students for leadership roles in the global hospitality and tourism industry. Students build customer service skills to ensure guest satisfaction and gain business knowledge to manage resources, budgets, and staff effectively. Common topics include human resources, hospitality law, facilities management, marketing, and revenue management.

Current Hospitality, Food, and Beverage Management News

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Campus News |

A selection of prominent headlines featuring UNLV experts from July and August.

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People |

A brief campus visit during a chance trip to Las Vegas set the Hospitality Alumnus of the Year on a journey to the top of the hotel-casino org chart.

Hospitality, Food, and Beverage Management In The News

CDC Gaming

The panel was in agreement that the locals casinos (which pretty much describes all casinos not on the Strip) never treated their non-gaming attractions such as restaurants as standalone profit centers. In fact, they’re often content to lose money or just break even, as long as those venues support the gaming products.

CDC Gaming

The panel was in agreement that the locals casinos (which pretty much describes all casinos not on the Strip) never treated their non-gaming attractions such as restaurants as standalone profit centers. In fact, they’re often content to lose money or just break even, as long as those venues support the gaming products.

Fast Company

Restaurants have turned customer loyalty into a humiliation ritual. Not only are they toying with users, but they’re blowing the most important lever they have to succeed. Inside the ‘great rewards overhaul’ of 2026.

Forbes

Behind these price fluctuations is dynamic pricing, a strategy that adjusts prices in response to changes in demand and other market conditions.

Inc.

A job seeker was told one blunder hurt their professional image after a panel interview. Experts say the decision isn’t entirely shocking.

KSNV-TV: News 3

While end-of-summer travel typically dominates this time of year, experts say travelers may want to begin planning their holiday trips now.

Hospitality, Food, and Beverage Management Experts

An expert on employment and hospitality law, human resource management, and workplace safety.

Recent Hospitality, Food, and Beverage Management Accomplishments

Won-Yong Oh (Management and Entrepreneurship) was recently recognized as a 2025 Best Reviewer by Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP), one of the flagship journals of the Academy of Management. AMP is a leading outlet that publishes accessible and impactful management research with broad relevance for academics, practitioners, and policymakers…