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Readers seeking management careers in hospitality will enter a dynamic industry filled with opportunities. The rewards are many, but so are the challenges. Today’s hospitality managers must deal with such complex factors as globalization, terrorism threats, ecotourism, internet commerce, new business and financial models, and rapidly changing consumer demands. Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry, Tenth Edition gives readers the industry know-how and the management skills needed to thrive in all aspects of the field, from food service to lodging to tourism. The Tenth Edition of Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry features both historical perspectives and discussions of new trends in a variety of sectors. This book has the most thorough coverage of the hospitality industry, covering foodservice, lodging, and travel and tourism, hospitality careers, and hospitality management. Readers will have a strong grasp of the many facets of the hospitality industry once they have utilized this textbook.

Readers preparing to work in hospitality will enter a field that is quickly evolving. The rise of the global economy, ecotourism, internet commerce, and changing consumer demands are just some of the factors they will be dealing with in this exciting and dynamic industry. This new edition gives readers the foundation they need to thrive in today’s hospitality industry, covering everything from finance to operational issues. The Eighth Edition of Introduction to the Hospitality Industry features both historical perspectives and discussions of new trends in a variety of sectors of the hospitality business, including food service, lodging, and tourism. Additional international examples of hospitality and tourism operations have been included throughout the text. This book covers all the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the hospitality industry. Readers will have a strong overview of the industry, where it fits into the broader world, the major issues and challenges in the field, and the many possible career paths that await them.

The interrelationship of strategy and logistics is discussed leading to a review of the development of logistics doctrine and principals of combat support. The Air Force's present doctrine on combat support and a logistics concept of operations developed to support it is described. Emphasis is on how combat support doctrine and the concept of operations affect the tactical air forces and their ability to project combat power. Present combat support doctrine and its resulting concept of operations is, guiding the tactical air forces correctly. However, several areas of concern are identified and suggestions provided.

The fault detection capability of a design technique named 'alternating logic design' is detailed. The technique achieves its fault detection capability utilizing a redundancy in time instead of the more conventional space redundancy and is based on the successive execution of a required function and its dual. In combinational networks the method involves the utilization of a self-dual function to represent the required function and the realization of the self-dual function in a network with structural properties which are sufficient to guarantee the detection of all single faults are derived. The application of alternating logic design to synchronous sequential machines is also studied, and a method for realizing any synchronous sequential machine with feedback and output circuitry designed using combinational alternating logic techniques is presented. The resulting realization is capable of detecting all single faults in the feedback and output combinational circuitry and all single input and output faults associated with the memory elements. Alternating logic design using alternating modules as basic design elements is also examined. Necessary conditions that a set of alternating modules be sufficient to construct alternating networks representing any arbitrary Boolean function are derived. (Author)