Editorial

Volume 7 Issue 2

Abstract

Kia ora koutou

Kia ora and welcome to the latest issue of Hospitality Insights. The journal provides open access to short, peer reviewed summaries of research and think pieces, for the hospitality industry and community. This current issue presents four diverse articles. The first is an opinion piece on inhospitality, explaining how this can occur when an overload in hospitable practices reaches a tipping point and becomes, ‘hospitality fatigue’. The second article looks at the potential of older workers, a frequently overlooked sector of the workforce, and suggests that the hospitality industry consider the benefits they may offer to the industry as a whole. The third ponders the similarities between tourism and zombiism, asking whether insights from this specific genre might provide fresh ideas for dealing with the resurgent problems of over-tourism. Finally, the fourth article offers insights into workplace toxicity, and why, after the stresses and disruptions of the past few years, it warrants closer attention from hospitality professionals.