Dictionary of Travel, Tourism & Hospitality (3rd ed.)

Dictionary of Travel, Tourism & Hospitality (3rd ed.)

S. Medlik Butterworth-Heinemann 272 pp. ISBN: 0 7506 5650 6 L29.99 Review DOI 10.1108/09596110310496079

There can be few hospitality and tourism professionals and academics whose lives have not been affected in some way by Professor (Rick) Medlik. He was instrumental in founding the first hospitality degree course at the University of Surrey in the 1960s and has published widely since then. The first edition of Medlik's Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality appeared in 1993, with a second edition in 1996, and this third edition may, sadly, be his final book. The purpose of the book was, and remains, to "provide ... clear explanations of the meaning of the commonly used words and phrases in travel, tourism and hospitality for those concerned with those...