BRITISH BUSINESS ACADEMYRESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL · UNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOM · SINGAPORE · UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Hospitality, tourism and experience industries
Investigate the business models and operating systems of hotels, restaurants, entertainment, health-related hospitality and events, with attention to customer experience, finance and international trends.
Research studies, papers and teaching materials related by their questions and methods. A cross-disciplinary connection does not imply that a study was conducted within every linked sector.
A practical research pathway for experienced managers: frame an organisational problem, test assumptions against evidence, assess strategic options and turn the analysis into a coherent applied DBA dissertation.
Read the research overviewA comparative dissertation examines digital tourism ecosystems in the Asia-Pacific region and the conditions for adapting their practices to Kazakhstan.
Read the research overviewA thematic collection of separately attributed DBA manuscripts examines business-process outsourcing in warehouse logistics and its implications for a geographically distributed organisation.
Read the research overviewPlanned studies from the Academy's 80-project agenda. Each detailed page contains a research problem, hypothesis, proposed methods, work packages and sources.
Search this domain's proposals →
How should long-lived industrial assets reflect regulation, energy demand and adaptation expenditure?
Which work should remain discretionary when AI systems enter management routines?
Which leading indicators detect executive dysfunction before financial deterioration?
How does repeated crisis exposure alter organisational learning?
How should executives choose strategy when competing trade and investment scenarios remain plausible?
When does joining a platform improve access but weaken bargaining power?
Under what conditions does supply-chain proximity create genuine strategic value?
How do resource constraints change location and growth decisions?
What is preserved and lost when local memory becomes searchable digital content?
Can generative systems support minority languages without appropriating them?
How should towns measure the value of creative industries beyond visitor spending?
How do recurring cultural practices influence trust and civic participation?
How should exporters choose routes when transit, insurance and geopolitical risks change simultaneously?
Do digital trade documents lower SME costs or merely shift complexity to new intermediaries?
Which business services become more tradable as AI alters delivery and verification costs?
What happens when many critical operations rely on the same small set of providers?
How can physical hazard exposure propagate through credit, insurance and trade?
Through which channels does sovereign risk affect private investment decisions?
How can companies detect legal exposure without relying on static country risk lists?
Can realistic uncertainty exercises transfer more effectively to executive decisions than lectures alone?
Can employer-informed micro-credentials close skill gaps without fragmenting qualifications?
Under what conditions does dynamic pricing improve matching or create exploitative outcomes?
Which institutions allow smaller regions to commercialise scientific research?
Which city investments protect vulnerable residents rather than raising property values alone?
Which signals anticipate service breakdown rather than merely describe it after the fact?
Which evaluation designs distinguish transformation effects from business-cycle noise?
Which feedback loops determine whether circularity reduces rather than relocates environmental burden?
How do climate events, shipping disruptions and household income interact to affect diet affordability?