WorldofHospitality.net was launched in September 2000 to support hospitality management education, research and the dissemination of information for industry professionals, educators, researchers and students. Although independently owned and managed by Glenn A J Bowdin, the site was initially designed to support students on the BA(Hons) Hospitality Business Management and HND Hospitality Business Management at Leeds Metropolitan University.

WorldofHospitality.net is one of series of sites dedicated to supporting professionism, education and research within service industries. Other sites in the series are WorldofEvents.net, WorldofRetailing.net,WorldofServices.net and WorldofTourism.net.

WorldofEvents.net has received attention from industrialists and educators alike, and has received recognition for its contribution to developing events professionalism. Notably, WorldofEvents.net has received the "ExpoWorld.net Gold Seal of Approval" and in February 2000 Glenn A J Bowdin, site developer, received The Max Cuff Award 2000 from the Incentive Travel & Meetings Association in recognition of WorldofEvents.net being developed for the benefit of the industry.

Glenn A J Bowdin is Principal Lecturer in Events Planning at the UK Centre for Events Management, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK). He specialises in the area of planning and management of events, corporate hospitality and quality costing. Over the past six years, he has been actively involved in developing the BA (Hons) Events Management degree programme and more recently the HND Events Management and the MSc Events Management (launched in September 2002). He is responsible for various areas of the centre, including research. Glenn is co-ordinator of the event-management list-serve (find out more), set up to promote the sharing of research and experience within events management education, and owns/manages the "WorldofEvents.net", WorldofHospitality.net, WorldofRetailing.net and WorldofTourism.net web-sites. Glenn has a Master of Philosophy, based upon research that investigated quality costing in service industries and is working on research projects in the area of events education and qualifications, ethical busines practice in events, quality costing, and management of quality within events. He has co-authored Events Management (Bowdin, McDonnell, Allen & O'Toole 2001 Events Management. Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann) released in October 2001 and is a member of the editorial board of Event Management (formerly Festival Management & Event Tourism).

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