Research Center in Hospitality and Tourism

Dr. Dominique Bourqui

Chief Academic Officer & Director of the Doctoral School, BSL

Welcome to the BSL Research Center in Hospitality and Tourism!

BSL is launching in 2025 a research center focused on business transformation in the fields of Hospitality and Tourism under the patronage of Prof. Nicola Palmer, member of the scientific committee of the research center. The research center has also been launched under the patronage of Prof. Christopher Cooper, who sadly passed away in June 2025.

The aim of this research center is to empower business professionals and researchers in the fields of Hospitality and Tourism, such as Faculty in Swiss Hotel Management Schools, through Doctoral qualitifications and research publication seminars.

Part of the BSL Doctoral School, the BSL Research Center in Hospitality and Tourism, aims at addressing current challenges in the fields of Hospitality and Tourism.

Business transformation in the hospitality and tourism industries offers indeed many research opportunities. These include research on: customers’ focus and expectations; the role of technology such as AI, Big Data, virtual worlds and sustainability-related questions including greening of the sector, climate change and net zero initiatives; and HR issues.

In the BSL Research Center for Hospitality and Tourism, we aim to organize research publication acceleration seminars to enable specifically faculty from Hospitality Management schools to take part in a scientific publication symposium and to accelerate and finalize their research papers for publication, or to work on the reviewers’ feedback they have received after their paper submission.

These research publication acceleration seminars, led by faculty from BSL, will include academic publication tips, good practice sessions from editors, and sessions on how to craft academic papers including literature reviews, methodological discussions, presentation of results, academic contribution and individual feedback on research projects. The seminars would also include faculty paper presentations and peer reviews to help new faculty members write and co-write their papers.