“…Though the roots founded much earlier (Morris, 1973;Mariampolski et al, 1980;Buergermeister, 1983), from the seminal study of Tas (1988) onwards, many studies on hospitality management competencies with their various aspects, yet not ferreted out enough, were carried out up to the very recent. This study, distinctively, (1) aims to discover the current competencies of hotel managers actually demanded by the industry in Turkey.…”