In their groundbreaking book Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love, Lonni Collins Pratt and Fr. Daniel Homan share monastic wisdom and their own life experiences, encouraging all people to embrace the true meaning of hospitality, regardless of denomination or creed. This study guide provides the tools for deeper exploration of this classic work, including additional material from the Benedictine Rule, questions for discussion, and anecdotes from everyday life. Ideal for use in small groups or congregations, or by individuals on quiet days or personal retreats, this guide includes: *Key excerpts from each chapter of Radical Hospitality, and questions to prompt further reflection *Exercises that help an individual absorb a key theme and then start to act on that theme *Scriptures that will further illuminate the Biblical truths that undergird each chapter.
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ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY, 1/e explains how to use numbers and fundamental accounting to operate a successful hospitality department or business. Focusing on the basics, sections progress from accounting and financial analysis to financial statements and management reports to budgeting and forecasting. Throughout the book current hospitality examples, photographs and illustrations are used. This edition includes the latest from the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry, Tenth Revised Edition, expanded material on Department Profit and Loss Statements, coverage of the 2009 recession and new practice exercises throughout. For courses in Hospitality Managerial Accounting.
For non-accountant hospitality managers, accounting and financial management is often perceived as an inaccessible part of the business, yet understanding is crucial for success. Using an 'easy to read' style, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the most relevant accounting information for managers. It demonstrates how to organise and analyse accounting data to help make informed decisions with confidence.
Your guide to becoming an effective hospitality manager
Developing Hospitality Properties and Facilities sets out some of the key issues in developing hospitality properties from the hospitality manager's perspective. From the original concept, through each part of the process, it provides an essential guide for students and professionals on how to manage hospitality facilities to their best effect, using a model-based insight into the process in an informed, but non-technical way.
Exploring the Hospitality Industry offers broad coverage of the hospitality industry all in an easy-to-read, conversational style that is less theoretical and more industry relevant than other books. It focuses not just on restaurants and hotels but on new growth areas such as event management, meeting planning, cruising, theme parks, attractions and entertainment. Each chapter features case studies, industry practitioners and corporate profiles that emphasize the real-world issues that make up this field. Reader-friendly strategies make material meaningful and involve readers as they explore the excitement and trends in this ever-growing industry. Explores all areas of the hospitality industry including unique chapters on club management, attractions, and recreation and assemblies and event management. Emphasizes a real-world connection using features such as: Introducing Industry Practitioners and Corporate Profiles. The hospitality industry.
Hospitality may well be the best means we have to promote close, brotherly love--especially in churches where people don't know each other beyond Sunday-morning-only greetings. 
A practical resource for managers and supervisors in hospitality businesses 
Although hospitality was central to Christian identity and practice in earlier centuries, our generation knows little about its life-giving character. MAKING ROOM revisits the Christian foundations of welcoming strangers and explores the necessity, difficulty, and blessing of hospitality today. Christine Pohl traces the eclipse of this significant Christian practice, showing the initial centrality of hospitality and the importance of recovering it for contemporary life. Combining rich biblical and historical research with extensive exposure to modern service communities--The Catholic Worker, L'Abri, L'Arche, and others--this book shows how understanding the key features of hospitality can better equip us to faithfully carry out the practical call of the gospel.
Up-to-date coverage of how technology impacts management in the hospitality industry 
Hospitality Law, Third Edition provides the legal understanding that ensures both the safety of guests and the success of the hospitality operation. This practical resource gives you a common sense approach grounded in essential principles rather than an encyclopedic knowledge of the law. Vivid scenarios and real-life case studies show these principles in action in recognizable hospitality settings. With comprehensive coverage ranging from foodservice to employee contracts, insurance to international terrorism, this Third Edition features new and revised content reflecting the latest factors at work in today's hospitality industry.
The success of every business in the hospitality industry depends on maximizing revenues and minimizing costs. This Ninth Edition continues its time-tested presentation of fundamental concepts and analytical techniques that are essential to taking control of real-world accounting systems, evaluating current and past operations, and effectively managing finances toward increased profits. It offers hands-on coverage of computer applications and practical decision-making skills to successfully prepare readers for the increasingly complex and competitive hospitality industry.
Completely revised and updated to include more information on Internet marketing, tourism marketing, marketing technology, and international business, Hospitality Marketing Management, Fifth Edition is a comprehensive, core marketing text. This popular textbook explores marketing and themes unique to hospitality and tourism, with a focus on the practical applications of marketing rather than marketing theory. It provides readers with the tools they need to successfully execute marketing campaigns for a hospitality business, no matter what their specialty.