Future of hospitality marketing and management research

Over the past few decades, research focus in hospitality marketing and management has been shifting from product development approach to understanding consumer product evaluation in the purchase decision and the factors that are likely to influence customers' decision making process. As the field experiences maturity and scientific sophistication, it is important for hospitality marketing and management researchers to fully understand the breadth and depth of existing knowledge, the stages of development the field have experienced in the past few decades and the future of hospitality marketing and management research. Therefore, this short opinion piece aims to provide a brief overview of development of the hospitality marketing and management research throughout the last few decades and then discuss some of the topics that might be examined/studied by hospitality marketing and management researchers in the near future.