AH&LA News

Planning your fall classes?
The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (EI) will have the following new and revised books available for Fall 2007 adoption:
NEW!
Purchasing for Food Service Operations #445CIN01
Authors: Ronald F. Cichy, Ph.D.,NCE, CHA, CFBE, CHE, and Jeffery D Elsworth, Ph.D.
ISBN 978-0-86612-288-7
© 2007, 16 chapters, Softbound
This NEW textbook teaches the latest thinking in purchasing, guided by a review committee of food purchasing professionals from restaurants, hotels, and on-site/managed services organizations. The book focuses on value-added purchasing strategies and techniques that go beyond a basic product specification approach. Students will learn how the purchasing control point is a vital element in the food distribution chain from the source and manufacturers to the guest at the table. It covers the latest in e-purchasing, addresses trends in purchasing and product, and features vital information on security, food safety, and ethics from both the distributor‘s and operator‘s perspectives.
NEW EI COURSE!
Retail Management for Spas #220CIN01
ISBN 978-1-57640-089-0
© 2005, 9 chapters, Softbound
The International Spa Association (ISPA) and the ISPA Foundation have partnered to create a retail management course that fully explores retail planning, inventory management, maximizing profits, sales and service, visual merchandising, and marketing within the spa environment. This course will help aspiring spa professionals increase their retail knowledge and understanding of vendor partner relationships.
Revised!
Supervision in the Hospitality Industry #250CIN04 Fourth Edition
Authors: Raphael R. Kavanaugh, Ed.D., CHA, and Jack D. Ninemeier, CFBE, CHE
ISBN 978-0-86612-295-5
© 2007, 14 chapters, Softbound
Help future hospitality supervisors hit the ground running with the skills they‘ll learn in this textbook. The book identifies key supervisory skills such as effective communication, orientation and training, managing productivity, motivation, and time management. Information on professional development will help students create a plan for their hospitality careers.
Revised!
Accounting for Hospitality Managers #362CIN05 Fifth Edition
Author: Raymond Cote, CPA, CCP
ISBN 978-0-86612-297-9
© 2007, 20 chapters, Softbound
This managerial accounting textbook will help students understand and apply hospitality departmental accounting at the supervisory and managerial levels. This edition includes three new chapters-on cash management and planning, casino accounting, and assorted accounting topics. Content has been updated to reflect the tenth revised edition of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act gets comprehensive covers, including the role of the SEC. The book also covers Fair Value Accounting, required in 2007 for all publicly-held corporations. Each chapter includes managerial accounting case studies and Internet site listing for further reference.
Revised!
Hospitality Today: An Introduction #103CIN06 Sixth Edition
Authors: Rocco M. Angelo, CHA, and Andrew N. Vladimir, CHE
ISBN 978-0-86612-294-8
© 2007, 17 chapters, Hardbound
This best-selling textbook features full-color photos and illustrations throughout. New examples, exhibits, and hospitality industry statistics provide students with the most up-to-date information on the dynamic hospitality industry. Students receive a comprehensive introduction to the spectrum of opportunities in the industry, as well as an overview of today‘s hot issues.
Revised!
Managing Technology in the Hospitality Industry #468CIN05 Fifth Edition
Authors: Michael L. Kasavana, Ph.D., and John J. Cahill, CHA, CHTP
ISBN 978-0-86612-296-2
© 2007, 12 chapters, Softbound
This textbook introduces students to the dynamic field of hospitality industry technology. Students learn the basics of purchasing, implementing, maintaining, and effectively managing today‘s information systems in hospitality. The revised edition includes new information on today‘s hot technology topics, including e-commerce, Wi-Fi, electronic payment systems, Web site design, data security, and identity theft.
PLUS!
Plus, when you make a new adoption of any EI textbook, we‘ll send you a FREE copy of your choice of the following hospitality case studies on CD-ROM:
Case Studies in Lodging Management (#605TCD01) Case Studies in Food Service Management (#602TCD01) Case Studies in Club Management (#603TCD01)
Reference offer code ADOPT when requesting your FREE case studies. (International customers, please note that there is a $45 shipping/handling charge for the complimentary CD.)
Contact your account executive at 800-344-4381 or 517-372-8800, (outside the U.S. and Canada, please call 407-999-8100), or visit EI online atwww.ei-ahla.org.
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