Topics of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:
· Services Design & Innovation
· Innovation service management
· Innovation and development in service management
· Innovation in service experience
· Co-creation and enhancement of service experience
· Collaborative Innovation in Tourism and Hospitality services
· Services Information Technology & E-Business
· Use of technology in services
· Impact of social media & communication innovations in services
· E-marketing
· E-branding
· Use of robots in services
· Use of biometric technologies in services
· Futuristic technologies in services
· Creating Value in Delivering and Managing Services
· Creating value in service management
· Creating value in service experience
· Operations & delivery
· Revenue management, economics & strategic pricing of services
· Marketing, brand building & delivery of services
· Governance, stakeholder & community issues
· Corporate social responsibilities of service organizations; family-ownership
· Entrepreneurship in services, leadership issues & ethics of services organization
· Growth, franchising & expansion challenges of service organizations
· Service quality, customer satisfaction, life satisfaction & quality
· Business Development
· Internationalization
· Entrepreneurship and Innovation
· Leadership
· Finance & Accounting
· Tourism Policy, Planning and Development
· Factors influencing demand for tourism
· International Human Resource Management (selection and recruitment, training, motivation, commitment, employee satisfaction)
· Market entry modes and market selection strategies
· International networks, partnerships and strategic alliances
· Internationalization strategies of service firms
· The role of organizational learning/knowledge transfer in the internationalization process
· International Financial Management (e.g reporting, performance measurement)
· Globalization and its impact on service sectors and/or firms
· The role of headquarters and subsidiaries in the process of internationalization
· Human resource management
· Training service employees
· Turnover issues in services
· Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
· Sustainable Tourism Development
· Economic, Cultural and Social aspects of Tourism
· Responsible Business
· Consumers and tourists attitudes towards climate change
· Climate Change and Tourism Destinations
· Social Entrepreneurship
· Risk assessment and Crisis management strategies of organizations/destinations
· Financial Management and Corporate Social Responsibility
· Stakeholder management and Corporate Social Responsibility
· Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility
· Ethics and Marketing
· Ethics and Human Resource Management
· Ecology and Environmental management
· Services Marketing and Branding
· Benchmarking strategies for services brands
· Brand development, Internal branding, Corporate branding
· Brand equity, Global brand equity
· Brand image, Symbolic consumption of brands, Brand attachment
· Brand loyalty
· Brand personality, destination personality
· Building brand campaigns in the services industry
· Challenges for marketing service brands
· Co-branding in the service industry
· Customer satisfaction with service brands
· Emotions and service brands
· Managing global and national service brands
· Online brands
· Pricing strategies for service brands
· Research Methods
· Different Research Strategies and Approaches
· Data Collection techniques and their application
· Research Access
· Sampling
· Qualitative data analysis
· Quantitative data analysis