This article is an attempt to identify and summarize the main trends and issues in the international publications deals with service management in the field of tourism and hospitality. The article considers publications 2012-2015 years of sampling represented eight leading foreign journals of tourism, hospitality and service management: Journal of Service Science and Management, Journal of Service Management, Service Science, Tourism Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management и Journal of Hospitality Management and Tourism. Based on the review and grouping of publications relevant service management issues in tourism and hospitality, the author makes a conclusion about kinds of topics, that are among the most typical in this field and gives examples of works for demonstration how wide is chosen issues. As can be seen from publications noted in the article , in the international literature of tourism, hospitality and service science is widely investigated the problems of service management in the tourism and hospitality. The author distinguishes ten thematic areas of service management in the tourism and hospitality, which probably kindle the highest interest and which are represented by a large number of publications: 1) the perception by tourists of issues related to risk and safety; 2) factors of customer loyalty; 3) the tourists motivation; 4) joint creation and customization of the tourist product; 5) consumer impressions; 6) methodological aspects of measuring consumer satisfaction; 7) social responsibility of business in the tourism and hospitality; 8) attitude to workers in the sphere of tourism and hospitality; 9) the needs of elderly tourists and tourists with disabilities; 10) use of information technology by consumers of tourist products
service management, service, customer satisfaction, customization, social responsibility, risks, tourism, hospitality, tourist product
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