A dictionary of travel and tourism terminology

The definitions of all manner of acronym and terminology can be found in this comprehensive source. Beaver (tourism research, U. of Bournemouth, UK) includes both American and British terms with lengthy definitions of many concepts. Included are terms relating to the operating language of tourism industry, abbreviations used by the International Air Traffic Assoc., alternative words, information technology, control language used by government and other official bodies, and brand names. Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR