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Hospitality Management: Care Study Assignments, by Sally Messenger and Humphrey Shaw. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1991. Pp.vii + 160. L995. ISBN 0-333-54638-0.
The trend in education towards defining key function areas in occupational vocational courses is reflected in this book which reinforces the theoretical learning of hospitality management through the practical use of case studies.
Hospitality Management: Case Study and Assignments is a compilation of case studies which, although focused on specific subject areas, are all linked and integrated into he hospitality industry. It is this approach of bringing together and conceptualising the various functional areas in the hospitality industry which makes these case studies a cut above the many rambling texts which attempt to be all things to all people.
The book is primarily written for BTEC, HCIMA and degree courses but could also be of value to postgraduate students and gives material to stimulate active debate. Messenger and Shaw have demonstrated through well-chosen cases an understanding of the industry's requirements for graduates who can analyse add adapt theoretical knowledge to the practical problems experienced within the management Context....