Hotel Management Practical English

Author: Liu Youdao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2006-11-01
Features: To meet the continuous development needs of China's tourism industry, especially the hotel industry, the team of secondary vocational education planning textbooks has planned to compile this textbook—Hotel Management Practical English. It aims to contribute to improving the English communication skills of students and professionals in related fields, cultivating well-versed, English-fluent, and comprehensively developed hotel service and management talents in the new era. At the same time, with the country's economic development, social progress, and the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympics, China's tourism and hotel industries are bound to enter a new golden period of growth. The purpose of publishing this book is also to help hotel employees and tourism industry staff improve their English listening and speaking skills, as well as their English expression level, to provide better and more thoughtful services to guests, especially foreign guests.
According to the characteristics of this industry and profession, we primarily followed the principles of communicative language teaching when compiling this textbook. We focus on cultivating learners' language communication skills, conversational abilities, and language application skills. The book is divided into 6 units and 23 lessons. Each lesson consists of warm-up, conversation, text, wordbank, practical terms and expressions, notes, and exercises.