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The study seeks to identify the real status of child labour in tourism in the Petra area and the children's cultural and social tendencies through using the descriptive social survey. The study identifies the real status of child labour through revealing the demographic and social characteristics of children working in the field of tourism and the economic and social characteristics of those children and their families, as well as monitoring the set of values those children have pictured, which express their tendencies and stands toward work, education, and future. The study revealed that the majority of the children working in tourism in Petra face educational and health troubles and they are subjected to different types of abuse. As for the characteristics of children working in tourism in Petra, the majority of them come from large families with relatively high monthly income (around or over the national rate), they are residents of Umm Saihoun village, and half of them work permanently between 8-12 hours per day, the majority of them dropped out of school at early age because of their poor academic performance and disinterest of education.

Purpose -The research aims to study the students' pre and post evaluation of their hospitality education institutions considering a set of measures, in a consumer-decision making model. Methodology -Applying a survey method within a quantitative approach, the focus is to decide the most important factors in the student selection and experience. In order to analyze the students' evaluation, selection and satisfaction, a set of measures have been decided through a literature review; those are the university's location, educational environment, name and reputation, future career prospects, university's relationships, internal culture, reliability and communication, as well as its effect on students' satisfaction. Findings -The results revealed that students consider mainly the future career prospects, educational environment and name and reputation as the major selection criteria. Hence, hospitality education institutions should promote themselves based on these factors. This research focuses on a widely used decision making model, in the consumer behaviour, in evaluating alternatives based on specific factors. In addition, the study highlights the importance of university's internal culture in students' satisfaction. Originality -Given the importance of theoretical and practical learning, the strong links with industry and the reputation of the hospitality institution within the context of educational accreditation and industry recognition, hospitality students' evaluation and hospitality institutions' marketing to attract students is a topic of great value.

After decenniums of knowledge and technological advancement, a huge number of foodborne illnesses occur yearly around the world; these were occurring mostly as a result of food handlers' malpractices in food service establishments. This study aims to apply the Health Belief Model (HBM) in explaining food handlers' practices. A survey was applied where self-administrated questionnaires were collected from 130 food handlers working in five stars hotels at Petra city, Jordan. Collected data were analyzed using various statistics including descriptive tests, Pearson correlation and, the standard multiple regression. Findings confirmed the significant impact of different HBM constructs (beliefs of proper food handling benefits, their beliefs of expected barriers against proper food handling & their perceived risks of food handling malpractices) on food handlers' practices. The findings also confirmed the significant correlation between proper food handling knowledge as a modifying factor on the HBM constructs.

The study's aim was to understand the level of benchmarking adoption, its objectives and limitation among the hotel sector in Petra, Jordan. Through twelve semi-structured interviews with the hotel owners and managers, the study concluded that the hotel sector in Petra adopts the benchmarking concepts moderately. The study also revealed that competitiveness is the most important reason behind the adoption of benchmarking. Hotels benefit from benchmarking in market trends and being competitive. One important result is that the regional political conditions in the Middle East and the consequences of the Arab spring are the most important obstacles that prevent the adoption of benchmarking in the hotel sector in Petra. To the authors' best knowledge, this study unprecedentedly integrates benchmarking using qualitative methods in researching the hotel sector in Petra.