Bio
Dr. Youn has been Assistant Professor at UNT since 2008, before which she was an instructor at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. She has been awarded research funding totaling nearly $40,000. She is currently Principal Investigator for a project titled “The Effect of Turnover Firm Profitability: Stress Management in the Hotel Industry.” She has been Principal Investigator on three past projects and Co-Principal Investigator on one past project. Dr. Youn has also engaged in several consulting activities for Hilton Grand Vacations, Marriott Vacation Club International, Ca Muse (Vicenza, Italy), and McDonald’s Headquarters (Lausanne, Switzerland).
Education
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2008
M.S., University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2005
B.S., Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002
Courses
SMHM 2280: Hospitality Industry Financial Accounting
SMHM 2480: Hospitality Industry Managerial Accounting
SMHM 4480: Hospitality Industry Finance
Articles
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (in press). Predicting Korean lodging firm failures: An artificial neural network model along with a logistic regression model. International Journal of Hospitality Management.
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (2009). Performance gap between Korean and U.S. hospitality firms: A preliminary examination. Journal of Hospitality Financial Management, 16(2), 1-15.
Woods, R.H., Youn, H.W., & Johanson, M.M. (2008). Who's Your Teacher Now? Issues Surrounding the Dimensions of Hospitality Management Educators. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, 20(4), 51-59.
More Articles
Zheng, T., Youn, H.W., & Kincaid, C.S. (2008). Analyzing customers' E-complaints for luxury resort properties. Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management, 18(7).
Youn, H.W., Kim, J., & Byun, J. (2008). The effects of demographic factors on gambling motivation: A conceptual study of American and Korean gamblers. Korean Journal of Hospitality Administration. Forthcoming.
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (2007). Factors affecting return on assets in the Korean lodging industry: A preliminary empirical investigation. Journal of Hospitality Financial Management, 15(2), 13-23.
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (2007). A logit model for predicting Korean lodging firm business failure. World Journal of Tourism and Small Business Management, 1(1), 74-82.
Posters/Presentations
Youn, H.W. (2010). The effect of turnover on firm profitability: Stress management in the lodging industry. The 8th Asia-Pacific CHRIE Annual Conference, Phuket, Thailand.
Koenigsfeld, J.P., Perdue, J., Youn, H.W., & Woods, R.H. (2010). New competencies for U.S. club managers. The 8th Asia-Pacific CHRIE Annual Conference, Phuket, Thailand.
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (2010). The impact of the recent recession on U.S. restaurant industry. The 8th Asia-Pacific CHRIE Annual Conference, Phuket, Thailand.
More Presentations
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (2009). Bankruptcy prediction of U.S. restaurant firms. The 29th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting, Hong Kong, China.
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (2009). Failure prediction of Korean lodging firms: An examination of the predictive accuracy of artificial neural networks. The 15th Asian Pacific Tourism Association Annual Conference, Incheon, Korea.
Youn, H.W., Woods, R.H., & Johanson, M.M. (2009). Early recession effects on hotel managers. The 15th Asian Pacific Tourism Association Annual Conference, Incheon, Korea.
Woods, R.H., Youn, H.W., & Johanson, M.M. (2009). Making management manageable: An empirical investigation into the stress and emotional health of U.S. hotel managers. International CHRIE Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Youn, H.W., & Woods, R.H. (2008). Vacation ownership: Reload and referral. 13thAnnual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research in Hospitality and Tourism, Orlando, FL.
Youn, H.W., & Woods, R.H. (2008). Reasons why consumers purchase timeshare.
13thAnnual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research in Hospitality and Tourism, Orlando, FL.
Youn, H.W. (2008). Business failure prediction for hospitality firms using artificial neural networks. 13th Annual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research in Hospitality and Tourism, Orlando, FL.
Youn, H.W., Zheng, T., & Kincaid, C.S. (2007). Analyzing customers’ E-complaints for luxury resort properties. 12th Annual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research in Hospitality and Tourism, Houston, TX.
Woods, R.H., & Youn, H.W. (2007). The changing demographic profile of hospitality educators: Are we becoming more diverse? Las Vegas International Hospitality and Convention Summit, Las Vegas, NV.
Woods, R.H., & Youn, H.W. (2007). CHRAQ: The best hospitality publication for all. Las Vegas International Hospitality and Convention Summit, Las Vegas, NV.
Youn, H.W., Schmidgall, R., & Woods, R.H. (2007). Usefulness of hospitality publications. International CHRIE Annual Conference, Dallas, TX.
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (2006). Business failure prediction for Korean lodging firms using multiple discriminant analysis and logit analysis. 11th Annual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research in Hospitality and Tourism, Seattle, WA.
Youn, H.W., & Gu, Z. (2006). Business failure prediction in hospitality industry. Graduate and Professional Student Research Forum, Las Vegas, NV.
Youn, H.W. (2006). Predicting loss two years in a row for Korean lodging firms using logit analysis. Las Vegas International Hospitality and Convention Summit, Las Vegas, NV.
Youn, H.W. (2005). Determine whether the financial executives and the general managers of five-star Korean hotels assign the same relative importance to the ratios as those in the United States. 10th Annual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research in Hospitality and Tourism, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Youn, H.W. (2005). Determine whether gambling behavior varies depending on an Individual’s socio-economic status and demographic profile: A comparative study based on American and Korean gamblers. 10th Annual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research in Hospitality and Tourism, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Youn, H.W., & Boo, S.Y. (2005). The effects of casino restaurants on behavior of local elderly gamblers: Las Vegas downtown casino operations. International CHRIE Annual Conference Las Vegas, NV.
