This insightful book provides you with all the information you will need to open and successfully operate a country inn. It includes financial advice, location and purchasing tips, and sound marketing and management guidance. But most importantly, it leads you through a personal analysis of whether you should open an inn by illustrating the challenges and demands of innkeeping.

For centuries monasteries have been places of solitude and retreat. Many monasteries and convents offer hospitality to those seeking a quiet place and a time of purposeful rest, reflection, and renewal. This book is your guide to guesthouses at convents and monasteries throughout the United States and Canada. Each chapter includes contact information, directions by car and by public transportation, accommodations offered, meals provided, charges, each place's history and description, nearby points of interest, and special notes; illustrations and a helpful index round out the book. Locations range from Midtown Manhattan to the Pacific Coast, Chicago to Florida's orange groves. The cost of these lodgings is surprisingly low-- ideal for budget travelers. The monasteries and convents featured span a spectrum of Christian traditions, yet each is open to pilgrims of any faith.

Since the publication of the second edition in 1986, there have been important advances in the field of management accounting. A great deal of progress has been made by hospitality and tourism operators in the area of control techniques, with revenue control in particular receiving a considerable amount of attention. The aim of this new edition is to present all such material and ensure that the book is the most up-to-date. Though retaining the basic structure of the original work, the third edition has been thoroughly revised, up-dated and expanded to cover all the key aspects of tourism.

A guide to all aspects of leadership, for any student who wants to become a supervisor or manager in the tourism and hospitality industry. The main focus is on managing workplace operations. Emphasis is also placed on the management of staff, including job design, selection and training, and monitoring workplace performance. The book also deals with policies and procedures in detail, including occupational health and safety.

The Fundamentals of Hospitality Marketing is essential reading for students on degree- and diploma-level courses in leisure and tourism. Practitioners in the industry who have not had the opportunity for a formal course of marketing training and who want to increase their knowledge and understanding of marketing will also find this book of great benefit. Carefully structured to be used in the teaching weeks of one semester, this is the first short, concise, affordable marketing textbook for students of hospitality. Each section of the book is directly related to the hospitality industry through the use of up-to-date examples.