Deborah Breiter joined the faculty of the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in August of 2000. She holds the Central Florida Hotel & Motel (CFH&MA) Professorship in Convention & Conference Management and was recruited specifically to develop the area of convention management in the College’s curriculum. Before coming to UCF, Dr. Breiter was the Department Head for Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management at New Mexico State University.

Dr. Breiter’s career in the hospitality industry began innocently enough when she was in high school and worked part time as a cashier in a Chinese restaurant. From there, she went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bennington College and then spent several years in the restaurant industry before receiving a Master of Professional Studies from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. Her career path took a turn towards the hotel industry shortly thereafter and Dr. Breiter spent time as a reservations manager, front office manager, conference services manager and eventually general manager.Dr. Breiter earned her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1992.

Dr. Breiter has published in many hospitality journals, including the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, The Cornell Quarterly and the Journal of Convention & Exhibition Management. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Convention & Exhibition Management and the Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality. She is very active in the Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (CHRIE), the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) and the American Hotel & Motel Association (AH&MA).