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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

Martha Stewart

Nonperishable items, such as rice, are great to buy in bulk, but how long can you keep them in your pantry?

TheStreet

The better-for-you concept’s unexpected return comes as traditional all-you-can-eat buffet chains struggle.

Boston Globe

After a recent dinner with a friend, Malden resident Mark Crehan was in a bind. His friend wanted to go gambling at Encore Boston Harbor — the Everett casino where 1,300 workers have now been on strike for more than a month.

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.

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…