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The department is home to three research centers that meet several objectives:
- The centers are designed to allow cooperative research across many individual projects leading to strong contributions to the industry.
- The centers provide recognition for Purdue as the source of research leadership for the hospitality and tourism industries.
- The centers allow graduate students to contribute to a major area of problems, and to be more fully recognized for this effort.
ARTHUR AVERY FOODSERVICE RESEARCH LABORATORY
This program is designed to conduct research in the areas of facility design - both production and customer service; the development and improvement of foodservice production equipment; and the development of new or improved food products. In many projects, the research overlaps. As an example, projects designed to investigate the problems of holding foods for extended periods may lead to the development of improved food products and the simultaneous development of improved equipment. While technical in nature, the research is designed to support the search for solutions to current management problems. The program is headed by Douglas Nelson. Visit the Arthur Avery Foodservice Research Laboratory page.
PURDUE TOURISM & HOSPITALITY RESEARCH CENTER
The Purdue Tourism & Hospitality Research Center (PT&HRC) began operations in 1990 and since then has provided quality research services to communities, non-profit and private sector organizations. Primary research services include visitor profiles studies, value-added data analysis, economic impact assessments, analyses of advertising effectiveness, tourism planning and development studies, and advisory services on destination marketing. The PT&HRC staff includes an interdisciplinary team of faculty members and graduate students from different schools and departments at Purdue University who are specialists in tourism. Liping Cai directs the center's operations. Visit the Purdue Tourism & Hospitality Research Center Web site.
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LODGING OPERATIONS
This research center provides information relating to lodging operations in all venues, including hotels, timeshares, resorts, casinos, cruise ships, assisted living properties, and bed and breakfast operations. Topic areas include human resources management, service quality management, training technologies, the operations of multiuse resort communities, lodging product design, and finance. Sheryl Kline directs the center's operations. Visit the Center for the Study of Lodging Operations Web site.
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