BSL Research Center in
Hospitality and Tourism
Doctoral qualifications and publication seminars
Dr. Dominique Bourqui
Chief Academic Officer & Director of the Doctoral School, BSL
Welcome to the BSL Research Center in Hospitality and Tourism!
For the past 5 years, BSL has been focusing its DBA program on business transformation and is launching a research center focused on business transformation in the field of Hospitality and Tourism under the patronage of Prof. Christopher Cooper, Prof. Dimitrios Diamantis and Prof. Nicola Palmer, members of the scientific committee of the research center.
The aim of this research center is to empower buisness 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.
