Dictionary of Leisure, Travel and Tourism (3rd edition)

“Ideal for students” boasts the cover of this book and there are many students training for one of the many branches of the leisure business, be it in the private, the voluntary or the public sector. One only has to give the terms contained in this dictionary a cursory glance to realise that it covers a vast range of industries from airlines to yacht clubs, from the Academy of Culinary Arts to zoological gardens and from abbeys to youth hostels. For each of these terms, the entry tells the reader how to pronounce the word, its grammatical standing, its definition...