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ISU professors honored for leadership, research in hospitality, tourism

June 18, 2008

ISU professors honored for leadership, research in hospitality, tourism

Four Iowa State University professors have been cited with top honors for excellence, by their peers in the largest hospitality and tourism education association in the world. An ISU administrator and a three-person ISU research team will each receive awards from the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE).
 
Outstanding contributions to field. Robert Bosselman has been tapped to receive the highest individual recognition in the field of hospitality and tourism education. Bosselman, professor and chair of apparel, educational studies, and hospitality management in the College of Human Sciences, will receive the 2008 Howard B. Meek Award, for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of hospitality and tourism education and to ICHRIE.
 
Bosselman, who joined the Iowa State faculty in July 2007, served as president of ICHRIE in 2005-2006. Before working at Iowa State, he directed the Dedman School of Hospitality at Florida State University. He also served as professor and assistant dean in the W.F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas. He began his academic career at the University of Massachusetts.
 
Best research paper of the year. Haemoon Oh, Ann Marie Fiore, and Miyoung Jeong will receive the 2008 Bradford Wiley Memorial Best Paper of the Year Research Award from ICHRIE. The annual award recognizes authors of a published  research article that is deemed the most superior published work in the field.
 
Oh and Jeong are associate professors; Fiore is a professor. All three of the researchers are in apparel, educational studies, and hospitality management. The award recognizes their paper, “Measuring the experience economy: Tourism applications,” which was published in 2007 in the Journal of Travel Research. The paper discusses a scale the co-authors devised for measuring experience economy concepts and practices in lodging and tourism venues.
 
The awards will be presented on Friday, Aug. 1, as part of the ICHRIE annual conference in Atlanta, Ga.

Contacts:

Robert Bosselman, Apparel, Educational Studies, and Hospitality Management, 515 294-7474.

Haemoon Oh, Apparel, Educational Studies, and Hospitality Management, phone 515 294-7409.

Cathy Curtis, College of Human Sciences/Communications, phone 515 294-8175.

Photo of Robert Bosselman
Robert Bosselman

Photo of Haemoon Oh
Haemoon Oh

Photo of Ann Marie Fiore
Ann Marie Fiore

Photo of Miyoung Jeong
Miyoung Jeong

Photos by Jaclyn Hansel.