Washington State University

Faculty Member, School of Hospitality Business Management

Taco Bell Distinguished Professor

College of Business

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Dr. Dogan Gursoy is the Taco Bell Distinguished Professor in Hospitality Business Management at Washington State University in the School of Hospitality Business Management and the editor of the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management (http://www.informaworld.com/1936-8631 ).

He is also the designer of the Hotel Business Management Training Simulation (http://www.dogangursoy.com/hotelsimulator/ ). The Hotel Business Management Training Simulation simulates real competitive market conditions for hotel operations. It provides a virtual marketplace where a number of hotels compete against each others. At the beginning of the simulation, all competing hotels are exactly the same. Once management teams start making their operational decisions for their hotels, the Hotel Business Management Training Simulation utilizes both operational decisions made by the management team for their hotel and operational decisions made by competing hotels to determine demand and revenue for each hotel. Operational decisions includes, but not limited to, capital investment, operating expenditures, marketing expenditures and pricing strategies. The external factors such as day of the week, demand patterns, etc. are also factored in the simulation.

Dr. Dogan Gursoy received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech. His area of research includes hospitality and tourism marketing, tourist behavior, travelers’ information search behavior, community support for tourism development, cross-cultural studies, consumer behavior and involvement. His research has been published broadly in refereed Tier I journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal Travel Research, Tourism Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. His research has been presented at numerous hospitality and tourism conferences and received numerous research awards. He serves on the editorial board of several journals including Annals of Tourism Research (resource editor), Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Social Inquiry (associate editor), International Journal of Hospitality Management, Tourism Analysis, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, International Journal Contemporary Hospitality Management, Advances of Hospitality and Leisure, Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, Tourism and Hospitality Management, etc. He is also an active member of Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) and the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators (I-CHRIE).

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