Hotel Restaurant and Travel Law: A Preventive Approach

If an ounce of prevention on is worth a pound of cure, Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel Law: A Preventive Approach is a vital resource for any industry professional!

Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel Law: A Preventive Approach is a comprehensive, yet approachable, guide to the legal knowledge needed to both enhance the guest experience and prevent lawsuits. Often, most lawsuits can be prevented if management and staff are properly trained to recognize potential hazards and guard against them. Thus, while good hospitality management means satisfying guests, it also means protecting them against accidents that can lead to injury and litigation. In this way, the two concerns of good service and lawsuit prevention overlap substantially.

The NEW 9th Edition Features:

• tools specifically for management training, such as clearly defined legal terms, preventative law tips, and lessons on risks of injury in a hospitality facility.
• new laws, cases, technological changes and advancements, and factual circumstances showcasing examples from the latest developments in the hospitality industry.
• the highly-successful case study format that sharpens students’ abilities to think critically, understand nuances of the law, extract important information from large amounts of data, and more!
• updates covering: technology’s impact on the law; liquor liability; issues prompting disclosure of calorie, fat, and carbohydrate content of restaurant food; legal consequences of foodborne illnesses; employment and discrimination issues, résumé fraud, the Americans with Disabilities Act, civil rights laws, and sexual harassment; plus negligence; franchise agreements; permit and license requirements; and casino, theme part, spa, and condominium hotel operations.
• an accompanying website containing cases and laws that are constantly updated for a publication package that always remains current.
• and much more!