Mr. Shoemaker

Stowe Shoemaker

Associate Dean of Research

Conrad Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management

Stowe Shoemaker is the Associate Dean of Research at the University of Houston's Conrad Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. Stowe also is on the executive education faculty at the Cornell University where he teaches courses in strategic marketing for hotels and restaurants, revenue enhancement through strategic pricing, and customer loyalty. Prior to moving to the University of Houston, Stowe taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Stowe has extensive experience in the hospitality industry working for both an independent hotel in Vermont and a hospitality consulting firm in Southern California. Major clients while working in the research business included Taco Bell, Foodmaker (Jack-in-the-Box), Marriott Corporation (all divisions), Stuart Anderson's Black Angus, Carl's Jr., Baker's Square Restaurants and Bob Evans Farms Restaurants. Minor clients included a variety of Los Angeles advertising agencies. Responsibilities included all aspects of project management from research design, questionnaire development, data collection, to analysis and final written report. As in-house statistician, was responsible for all multivariate analysis.

Since earning his PhD, Stowe has worked with major international hotel firms on customer loyalty and pricing issues.

His research interests include the antecedents and consequences of consumer loyalty, loyalty programs, and strategic pricing and revenue management. His research has appeared in the Journal of Pricing and Revenue Management, Journal of Travel Research, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administrative Quarterly, International Journal of Hospitality Management, International Gaming and Wagering Business, and Journal of Restaurant and Foodservice Marketing. Stowe is co-author of a Harvard Business School Case Study on Hilton HHonors. Stowe's research has won numerous awards. He is currently writing a text book on hospitality marketing with Robert Lewis and Peter Yesawich. The book will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2006.

He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University in the School of Hotel Administration, an MS from the University of Massachusetts and BS from the University of Vermont.

Mr. Shoemaker can be contacted at 713-743-7371 or sshoemaker@uh.edu

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Hotel Human Resources: The Biggest Challenges
The economic challenges of the past four years have led many hotel companies to re-examine the ways in which they do business and how they deploy talent. In many cases, the work did not go away and fewer people were left to carry on the tasks that had previously been shared among many. As we work our way out of the recession and look forward to a healthier economic environment, there is an understanding that despite recovering business levels, we may never see the return of former staffing levels. This "new norm" of operating with leaner teams has led Human Resources professionals and people managers to look at career development and growth opportunities in a new light. The March Hotel Business Review will take a look at some of the strategies being used by successful hotel brands, and techniques human resource directors are currently exploring.
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By Jim Houran, Partner, HVS Executive Search
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