Book Review: Travel Law, Cases, and Materials

Travel Law, Cases and Materi als, by Robert M. Jarvis, John R. Goodwin, William D. Henslee (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 19981, ISBN 0-89089-802-2,1998, vii + 738 pp., including tables, acknowledgments, appendices, index. $80 hardback

Book Review: Benedict on Admiralty: Cruise Ships

Robert M. Jams, editor-in-chief, Benedict on Admiralty: Cruise Ships (New York: Matthew Bender & Company Inc. Lexis Publishing, March 2000), www.bender.com, ISBNO- 8205-4392-6 Binder, 312 pp. (Appendices, Index) $200

Book Review: Wizard of Ads

The Wizard of Ads, by Roy H. Williams. (Austin, Tex: Bard Press, 1998), 221 pages, ISBN 1-885167.29.6 Trade Paperback 1-885167-32-+6, $16.95 paperback /$26.95 hardvocer

Tourism: Who Needs It?

Is tourism economically beneficial? If so, who benefits? How much of the money generated through tourism can be channeled into other projects so desperately needed by the community without harming the local tour market? Will tourism continue to grow forever, or is there an end in sight? The authors discuss how tourism will change in approaching the next century: and how people will change if tourism is to remain such an important economic fact

The Travel Industry: What\u27s in a Name?

The travel and tourism industry is enormous in both size and importance. There can be little doubt that the field is striving to accommodate the diversity of opinion concerning what the industry is and how it can be improved and enlarged even further. Resistance to critiquing long-held beliefs about the industry may inhibit its future. Deconstruction, a postmodern method of analysis, is proposed as one tool with which to engage in reflection upon what the industry is and where it may be headed

Book Review: Tourism in China: Exotic Land Revealed

There is no better way to lean about tourism in China than from renowned expert in the field. Alan Lew. PhD. and professor at Northern Arizona University, Lawrence Yu, Ph.D. and associate professor in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management at George Washington University. John Ap, Ph.D. and associate professor in tourism management at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Zhang Guangrui, director of the Tourism Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China, have contributed to and edited a collection of writings detailing the development of tourism in this fascinating and exotic land

Book Review: Dixie Before Disney

Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun by Tim Hollis (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1999), ISBN 1-57806-117-2, 206 pages, including acknowledgements, tables, index, $25 paperback