Description

This comprehensive text serves as a basic reader for students on introductory hospitality management programmes or non-specialist but related degrees such as tourism and business studies, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It provides students with a solid grounding in the industry, covering all sectors of the hospitality industry, both commercial and non commercial, and sets it within the context of the tourism industry. Hospitality Management: An Introduction second edition breaks away from tradition by looking at the wider industry, such as the brewing industry, theme parks and the timeshare industry.

Features

• ideal text for students on introductory hospitality management programmes or non-specialist but related degrees such as tourism and business studies, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
• draws together all elements of the UK/European hospitality industry
  in one volume
• provides information on the contract catering and brewing industries
• draws on the author's extensive experience in the industry, academia and as an information manager for HCIMA
• incorporates information and data from consultancy reports which are not widely available

 

Table of Contents

1. The Hospitality Industry; its links with tourism and travel
2. Profile of the Accommodation Industry
3. Internationalisation and Growth within the Hotel Industry
4. Hotel Management; dimensions and structure
5. Aspects of Management
6. Accommodation Operations
7. Legislation
8. Restaurant and Fast Food
9. Contract Catering
10. Brewing Industry
11. Leisure and Theme Parks
12. Trends in the Hospitality Industry for the next millennium