Literature recommendations

On the subject of hospitality

  • Chittister, Joan: Monastery of Life – Invitation to a Meaningful Life, EOS Verlag Sankt Ottilien, 2014, especially pages 119-124
  • Ennis, Pat, Tatlock, Lisa: Practicing Hospitality – The Joy of Serving Others, Crossway, Wheaton/Illinois, 2007
  • Hay, Leslie A.: Hospitality – The Heart of Spiritual Direction, Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg – New York, 2006
  • Fuchs, Guido: Hospitality, Friedrich Pustet Publishing, Regensburg, 2012
  • Gärtner, Rolf: Be hospitable at all times, Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern, 2012
  • McKergow, Mark, Bailey, Helen: Host - Six new roles of engagement, SolutionsBooks, London, 2014
  • Nonn, Nikolaus: Welcome! On the Blessing of Hospitality, Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach, 2011
  • Nouwen, Henri: The Triple Trace, new edition in a new German translation, Verlag Herder GmbH, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2012, especially pages 91-156
  • Pechlaner, Harald, Reich, Frieda: Hospitality and Hospitality in Tourism – Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty with Hospitality Management, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, 2007
  • Schulte, Doris and Wilfried, Welcome on the Road – With God on the Journey, SMC Verlag, Witten, 2013
  • Wolle, Frau, Vidyaykina, Anna: Chicken Soup and the Scent of Roses – A Fairy Tale of Hospitality, 2nd Edition, Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck, 200

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