Abigail Tempest, a beautiful sixteen-year-old heiress arrives in Australia to claim a huge land grant, but is ill-prepared to deal with the upheaval of the Rum Rebellion

How hospitality managers prevent legal problems and avoid litigation This comprehensive text prepares students and professionals in hospitality management to negotiate the industry's complex network of legal requirements and manage their operations in a way that will minimize the risk of a lawsuit. Hospitality Law combines relevant legal information about the industry with a series of interactive exercises that foster preventative legal management and effective decision-making. Rather than poring over case law, students learn decision-making through active participation in critical thinking exercises, hypothetical situations, and team activities. By looking at how various parties made choices and how legal problems could have been avoided, students will learn to apply a practical legal awareness to their own actions. Classroom-tested to assure understanding and application, this fresh approach to teaching hospitality law: * Stresses an interactive approach to learning and decision-making * Emphasizes real-life situations rather than extensive legal citations * Includes legal guidelines to help hospitality managers avoid litigation * Covers safety and security requirements, disputes with customers, hiring and firing employees, liabilities associated with serving alcohol, and much more * Familiarizes students with technology through Internet searches Supplemented with numerous checklists, step-by-step procedures, and written forms to help students create legally compliant policies and respond to changing situations, Hospitality Law is destined to become an indispensable part of every hospitality manager's education.

Product Description: Written in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, easy-to-remember style, Foundations of Lodging Management tells readers the basics about how the lodging industry and the hotels in that industry operate. KEY TOPICS: Included are chapters on the history and structure of the lodging industry as well as on the individual operating departments such as front office, sales and marketing, housekeeping and maintenance that are so vital to the success of a hotel...read more

Written for aspiring hospitality managers rather than accountants, this resource focuses on how accounting principles apply directly to hospitality management. It makes accounting fun with practical examples throughout each chapter and a running case study that helps readers apply what they've learned.

Product Description: This book approaches hospitality human resource (HR) management as a decision-making practice that affects the performance, quality, and legal compliance of the hospitality business as a whole. Beginning with a foundation in the hospitality industry, employment law, and HR policies, the coverage includes recruitment, training, compensation, performance appraisal, environmental and safety concerns, ethics and social responsibility, and special issues...read more

Product Description: A complete, practical guide to managing restaurant business finances One of the keys to a successful restaurant business is strong financial management. This book equips readers with the tools needed to manage the finances of foodservice establishments effectively...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Imparts essential information on how to maintain sales and cost histories, develop systems for monitoring current activities and teach the techniques required to anticipate what is to come. Also covers basic math, purchasing and production, accounting and control...read more

Product Description: Teaches how to prepare for, plan, present, and follow-up on training programs.