Towards a theoretical understanding (Conrad Lashley, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Metropolitan University); An anthropology of hospitality (Tom Selwyn, The Business School, University of North London); The philosophy of hospitableness (Elizabeth Telfer, University of Glasgow); The hospitality trades: a social history (John K Walton, Dept of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Central Lancashire); Putting up? Gender, hospitality and performance (Jane Darke, School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University and Craig Gurney, Centre for Housing Management and Development, University of Wales); Home and commercialised hospitality ( Paul Lynch, Dept of Business and Consumer Studies, Queen Margaret University College and Doreen MacWhannell, Dept of Management and Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University College); Mediated meanings of hospitality: television personality food programmes (Sandie Randall, Dept of Business and Consumer Studies, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh); Hospitality and hospitality management (Bob Brotherton, Manchester Metropolitan University and Roy C Wood, Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde); Managing hospitality operations (Andrew Lockwood, School of Management Studies for the Service Sector, University of Surrey, Peter Jones, School of Management Studies for the Service Sector, University of Surrey, J Stephen Taylor, The Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde); Social scientific ways of knowing hospitality (David Botterill, School of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff); Humour in commercial hospitality settings (Stephen Ball, School of Leisure and Food Management and Keith Johnson, Dept of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Manchester Metropolitan University); Consuming hospitality: learning from post-modernism? (Alistair Williams, Division of Hospitality Management, The University of Huddersfield); Consuming hospitality on holiday (Hazel Andrews, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of North London); Working in hospitality (Yvonne Guerrier and Amel Adib, School of Hotel Management, South Bank University); Education for hospitality (David Airey, School of Management Studies for the Service Sector, University of Surrey and John Tribe, Faculty of leisure and Tourism, Buckingham Chilterns University College)