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Oct. 29, 2009 | Toronto Star
Once burdened with having to pay players in U.S. dollars while collecting revenues in well-below-par Canadian dollars, Canada's NHL teams are suddenly standing on a competitive fiscal playing surface flush with unexpected new wealth. But all six Canadian teams are at or near the league salary cap, which effectively handcuffs them from spending their newfound wealth on high-priced talent. "Aggressive spending would have to take place in non-player forms, such as coaching, scouting, minor league development and marketing," said Aubrey Kent, a Torontonian and sports management professor at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Oct. 27, 2009 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Local fans say that while it was fun to whip Tampa Bay in last year's World Series, this year's matchup offers a rare opportunity: A chance for Philadelphia to put a beatdown on its northern big brother - on
the city that thinks it stands at the center of the known universe, on the team that epitomizes arrogance, overspending and entitlement. "It seems like they have more of everything than we do," said Temple University assistant professor Emily Sparvero, who studies the business of sports. "They have the bigger media market. They have the new billion-dollar stadium. They have the stars in the stands."
Oct. 15, 2009 | NBC10
Hotel Palomar, the only hotel to open in Center City this year in the midst of a lagging economy, bills itself as being elegant and eco-friendly. And it’s also educational. Temple University students are playing a role in the operation of the new boutique hotel. Two Temple graduates are working at the hotel, one student is interning there and 30 are volunteering with marketing and advertising efforts. The partnership gives first-hand experience to students who want to go into the tourism and hospitality industry.
Oct. 15, 2009 | KYW Newsradio 1060
What kind of a social impact is this Phillies post-season run having on the city of Philadelphia? Emily Sparvero with Temple University's sport and recreation program says the most obvious impact that the Phillies have on the city has to do with how Philadelphia is perceived: "And that includes both how the people who live here in Philly think about the city and also, outsiders are also going to develop impressions about what kind of city Philadelphia is." She says winning sports teams tend to promote a sense of city pride: "If I live in Philadelphia, and our sports teams are successful, then I feel better about living here. I feel better about myself."
Oct. 13, 2009 | Philadelphia Business Journal
The Hotel Palomar, a Kimpton property, will open in Center City Thursday. And some students from Temple University’s School of Tourism and Hospitality Management are helping to get the word out.
One student is working as an intern at the hotel and some 30 others are working as marketing volunteers. (Two alumni of the Temple hospitality program are full-time employees at the new hotel.) “In this challenging economic climate, it is unique and rare for a student to be intimately involved in a hotel opening,” said Greg DeShields, the School of Tourism and Hospitality’s senior director of corporate relations.
Sept. 28, 2009 | Daily Local News (Chester County)
An area business and nonprofit are working overtime to debunk damaging rumors that have taken root on the Internet and continue to grow. Rumors such as those put out about Shady Maple and the Montgomery County SPCA should serve as a caution to Internet users who frequent chat rooms, said Iis Tussyadiah, an assistant professor at Temple University and the assistant director of the National Laboratory for Tourism and E-Commerce in Champaign, Ill. “It is not possible to control information on them,” Tussyadiah said of Internet chats. “People can say anything, it can be true, it can be sensationalized.”
Aug. 31, 2009 | Cape May County Herald
Cape May Mayor Edward J. Mahaney Jr. told the city's Tourism Commission the city needs to create and implement a long-range master plan for the marketing and promotion of Cape May. The city has signed
an agreement with Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management to manage Cape May's future Convention Hall and coordinate tourism promotion for the seaside town. Mahaney said Temple students would be in Cape May providing fresh ideas.
Aug. 21, 2009 | Press of Atlantic City
Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, which is affiliated with the university's Fox School of Business, will spend 19 months helping to market Cape May’s new convention center. Students and professors will work with the city Department of Civic Affairs and Recreation staff who ran the old convention facility, which is closed due to structural problems. Students also will collect visitor data to aid future marketing decisions. Other aspects of the deal include a public information office, running new special events, and providing training to convention hall workers before the facility opens.
Aug. 19, 2009| Cape May County Herald
The city and the Temple University School of Tourism and Hospitality Management have entered into a partnership to manage Cape May’s future Convention Hall and coordinate tourism promotion for the seaside town. Temple will work with the Tourism Commission to come up with a focused long-range plan for the marketing and promotion of Cape May. The school has been very successful in performing the same type of services for the City of Baltimore and Elkhart, Ind.
July 22, 2009 | USA Today
Jeremy Jordan, an assistant professor of sport and recreation management at Temple University in Philadelphia, is studying Back on My Feet to determine the effect of running on self-esteem and commitment to a community. Jordan is taking monthly assessments of many of the teams, and he says he hopes to have enough data by the end of the 18-month study to measure changes in the participants. Though the study is in its early stages, Jordan says, he already has seen changes: "People feel better about themselves, and they feel better about the future outlook." He adds that committing to being part of a team is what sparks much of the change in participants. "We've taken the position that if you just handed these folks a running program for 30 days you wouldn't have seen the same outcome," he says.
July 1, 2009| WHYY
For some, the kitchen is a way to get off welfare or overcome a checkered past. Regardless of personal motivation - and against popular belief - it’s hard to get a kitchen job if you’ve got a criminal record. Industrial kitchens and restaurant chains are often run by corporations. Greg DeShields of the Temple University Hospitality Management School says their policies are ironclad: no jailbirds. Should there be a corporate mandate of a drug screening or that a person could not be convicted of a felony, it would limit a hotel or restaurant chain to make a hire, but an independent owner would have the prerogative to make a decision to give back to the community, or just to provide a person with an opportunity.
May 27, 2009 | Temple Times
Jeremy Jordan, an avid runner and assistant professor of sport and recreation management at Temple’s School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, is working with Back on my Feet, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that’s using running as a way to build confidence, strength, self-esteem and independence in the homeless population.
May 13, 2009 | Philadelphia Inquirer
With close to half of all marriages ending in divorce, most weddings today come with multiple mothers and stepfathers, blended in-laws, grandparents and step-siblings. Managing them is on every event planner's agenda. In fact, ex etiquette is a subject that's increasingly being covered in hospitality and event-management programs at local colleges. Ira Rosen, an adjunct professor at Temple University's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, said the topic started showing up in courses about eight years ago.
April 23, 2009 | Philadelphia Gay News
The Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus, an organization that seeks to boost the city's appeal as a gay-friendly tourist destination, announced initiatives to help the city capture a portion of the still-strong gay dollar. Greg DeShields of Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management unveiled the PGTC's new brochure that details their gay-sensitivity training program. Temple and PGTC launched the initiative in 2007 at hotels to ensure that employees know how to provide LGBT travelers with the same service as other visitors. Since then they've brought the program to businesses throughout the area.
Jan. 22, 2009 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A new estimate indicates that about 1.6 million people jammed the capital to see Barack Obama sworn in as president, making it the largest event ever held in the District of Columbia. "I think that's a very realistic number," said Ira Rosen of Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, who studies crowds. "It's relatively easy to calculate some of that, because if you look at the National Mall, a lot of it is unobstructed. There are no trees, no buildings."
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Dec. 8, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Officials expect several million people to attend the presidential inauguration on the National Mall, creating what may be the largest gathering in one place at one time. "I haven't found anything that big," said Temple School of Tourism and Hospitality instructor Ira Rosen, who studies crowds. Inauguration planners say they'll place giant TV screens on the Mall so people can see and hear what they're there for. Security will be strict. "It's going to be like a major military maneuver," says School of Tourism Professor Michael Jackson.
May 12, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Residents in the luxurious upper floor of the Two Liberty Place are treated like hotel guests. "We like to say our owners are hotel guests, but they never have to leave," says Jamie Cooperstein, the bright, lithe, hyper-organized young woman who at only 26 serves as senior concierge. "And who wouldn't want to live at a luxury hotel?" Cooperstein is a graduate student in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at the Fox School of Business.
April 18, 2008 | STHM’s NLTeC Explores
The tourist experience is shaped and motivated by consumer-generated media such as YouTube and Flickr. At least that’s what the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management’s National Laboratory for Tourism and Ecommerce (NLTeC) discovered while taking a deeper look into the tourism experience and how it is influenced by technology. This fall, NLTeC conducted a series of studies that explored how consumer-generated media such as blogs, wikis and image- and video-sharing websites influence the process of information searching and experience sharing for tourists.
March 03, 2008 | On The Boards
The recent induction of Patricia M. Morley, chair of Philadelphia Hospitality, has ushered in four new members to the board including Temple University's own Dr. Elizabeth Barber. Dr. Barber is the associate dean of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University. The organization provides exclusive experiences in the
Greater Philadelphia region for guests who are looking for something
completely unique during their visit.
Feb. 29, 2008 | Philadelphia Business Journal
Recently, 40 students from Temple¹s School of Tourism and Hospitality
Management joined the sales team at the Hyatt Regency Washington, on Capitol
Hill, and found out what it means to say, "All in a day's work," laboring
from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., according to the hotel. Students made cold calls,
went on site visits throughout Washington and met with prospective clients.
At the end of the day, the sales staff and their Temple charges had
generated $1.7 million in leads.
Feb. 25, 2008 | Newsday (New York)
A French hotel association has opened Maison des Relais & Chateaux, a boutique hotel in New York. Although a slowing U.S. economy is a concern, the weak dollar may appeal to the hotel's target clientele, affluent foreigners, says Greg DeShields of Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management. One challenge will be the Manhattan location, where there is a "concentration of hotel inventory of different brands," said DeShields.
Jan. 24, 2008 | Daily News
"There will be one face more famous and more grizzled than most among the graduates at Temple University tomorrow," writes columnist DanGross. Randall "Tex" Cobb, 54, the former boxer turned "Raising Arizona" star, has completed his Temple studies, where he majored in sports management.
Dec. 5, 2007 | Metro
As Philadelphia continues to market itself as a "gay friendly" community for tourism, its hospitality workers need to break down their assumptions about what that means. The Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus and Temple University have created the Gay-Friendly Sensitivity Training program to help train the city¹s tourism industry workers to cater more directly to the needs of gay tourists. View Article
Oct. 30, 2007 | Denver Post
The first-ever World Series games played in Denver represented more than a chance for rabid sports fans to root for the Colorado Rockies. Mega sports events such as the World Series, the Olympics and the Super Bowl bring long-term tourism benefits to a city, said Joe Goldblatt, senior lecturer at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University. "Salt Lake City found its place on the tourism map with the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Before that, all tourism for Salt Lake City was regional," Goldblatt said. "The greatest benefit of a mega sports event is the long-term branding of a tourism destination."
Oct. 29, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia has been promoting itself as a gay-friendly city for visitors, and the Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus recently held a session for hotel and motel employees to help make that claim real. Debra K. Blair, a professor in Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality, helped create the program and served as moderator for the Marriott presentation. "This is a necessary piece of diversity education," she says.Š "We hope to motivate business to get on board and train their people."
Sept. 18, 2007 | Entrepreneur
Any business can put on a big event that will draw name-brand attention. Dr. Joe Goldblatt, senior lecturer at Temple University's School of Tourism & Hospitality Management, says no business is too small to create a memorable event. "Creativity expands any budget," says Goldblatt. "First, find a cause relevant to your corporate mission. Then, find partners to work with. Lastly, ask yourself, is it feasible? Is it viable? Is it sustainable?"
Aug. 31-Sept. 6 issue | Philadelphia Business Journal
In a region with about a dozen major league teams, 83 college sport teams, some of the nation's most significant historic sites, and a thriving hotel and restaurant scene, there will never be a shortage of work for professionals trained in tourism and hospitality management. Elizabeth H. Barber, associate dean and associate professor of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University, should know, writes Wafa Musitief. Barber's program has trained most of the athletic directors and assistant athletic directors working for teams in the region. Graduates from the program are routinely recruited by hotels like Hyatt International and Marriott International and by every major city sports team from the Eagles to the Flyers to the Phillies.ŒTourism is what Philly is about, Barber said.
Aug. 14, 2007 | Associated Press, USA Today
"The happy marriage of modern spas and historic places is being driven by the demographics of the aging post-World War II generation, according to Joe Goldblatt, who teaches at Temple University's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management in Philadelphia. Goldblatt said spas with connections to historic places provide two things to aging boomers: a way to heal physical maladies, and an antidote to what he called "rootlessness." 'Baby boomers and even Gen-Xers are looking for ways to relieve the pain. These spas are offering pain relief, plus comfort and connections to history,' said Goldblatt."
July 30, 2007 | Associated Press
"Terrorism fears boosted the Caribbean's appeal as a safe, nearby destination, said Joe Goldblatt, senior lecturer at Temple University's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management. Over time, more U.S. tourists began visiting distant continents."
June 26, 2007 | MSNBC, USA Today
When it comes to vacations, the family resorts that were once a staple of the industry are on the decline. "At their peak, around 1960, more than half of U.S. resorts were American Plan-style. Now the percentage is probably fewer than one in 10, estimates Joe Goldblatt, who teaches at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University in Philadelphia. 'In travel, brief, bright and brilliant equals better,' he said."