Accomplishments: William F. Harrah College of Hospitality
Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) addressed the Mesquite Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday September 10 at the Casablanca Resort and Casino. She discussed the tourism climate in Southern Nevada, discussing the decreased visitor volume and the increased gaming number.
Associate professor Cass Shum (Hospitality) recently published her paper, "Woke washing won鈥檛 work: The effects of inclusive cues on online employee review sites on job seekers鈥 application intentions," in the International Journal of Hospitality Management, with her two co-authors. The article analyzes 117 hotel鈥
Juliana R. V. Tkatch (Hospitality) coauthored a paper titled, "Examining the competitive advantage of agritourism destinations: An application of a unified resource-based view," in Tourism Management, the most prestigious journal in the hospitality field, according to SJR Reank.
Assistant professor Araceli Hernandez's (Hospitality) article, "AI-Powered Predictive Modeling for Food-service Crowdfunding Success: An Integrated Approach with Business Intelligence and Supervised Machine Learning for Smart Business Ecosystem" was recently published in the Electronic Markets Journal.
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Assistant professor Bonhak Koo's (Hospitality) article, 鈥淏ad caring: Reframing the role of empathy in the hospitality industry,鈥 was recently published in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. In this article, Koo and his co-authors explore the consequences of two types of empathic abilities on hospitality鈥
With the rise of online meal delivery platforms like DoorDash and UberEats, it is important for restaurants to understand how reports of satisfaction on these platforms impact their customers. In the article "Examining the billboard effect of online meal delivery platforms," published in International Hospitality Review, co-authors 鈥
Tiange Xu (International Gaming Institute; Hospitality), Shane Kraus (Psychology), and colleagues recently published a paper, "A longitudinal investigation of sports betting legalization鈥檚 influence on problem gambling," in the Addictive Behaviors. This study tracked 112 American sports bettors over two years using a natural experimental design,鈥
Doctoral student Niansong Zhang, Amanda Belarmino, and Carola Raab (all Hospitality) presented "The tipping point: Understanding the impact of suggested gratuities on consumer spending behavior" at the annual ICHRIE Conference in Indianapolis on June 19, 2025.
Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute; Hospitality) moderated a panel titled, "Game Integrity in Esports," at the International Association of Gaming Advisors annual Summit in Berlin, Germany. Joined by four experts from DACH countries, Abarbanel discussed the ways esports integrity is similar to sports integrity, and how its digital鈥
Cass Shum (Hospitality) and her two co-authors received the "Best Paper Award" at the APac CHRIE Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand at the end of May. Their paper "Woke washing won't work: The effects of inclusive cues on online employee review sites on job seekers' application intentions" was authored by Shum, Carrie Zhang, Ph.D. '22 from City鈥
Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Shane Kraus (Psychology), and colleagues recently published a paper, "Problem gambling in the crypto era: A study of gambling motivations and cognitive distortions amongst cryptocurrency traders," in the Public Health鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧. Their research examined the prevalence of problematic gambling behaviors among鈥
Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Shane Kraus (Psychology), and colleagues recently published a paper, "Beyond Sports Betting Legalization: Comparing Problem Gambling Risk Patterns in Legal and Illegal States," in the Journal of Gambling Studies. Their research examines how problem gambling risk factors differ between states with legalized sports betting鈥