"Tourism is extremely well covered, with topics including marketing, hospitality and culture. The vocabulary is highly appropriate, with a vast range of academic skills."

"English for Tourism and Hospitality in Higher Education Studies - Course Book is a student's book which targets students intending to pursue a course in tourism and hospitality. These students should have completed general EAP courses or at least Level 3 of an EAP course such as Skills in English (Garnet Education) or have achieved an IELTS level of at least Band 5.

This Course Book comes with two CDs and is part of the Garnet English for Specific Purposes series. It comprises twelve graded and skills-based units. Each unit is divided into four integrated lessons as inputs, with writing and oral skills as expected outputs. For example, in each unit, Lesson 1 is on discipline-specific vocabulary and vocabulary development skills such as word-building, using affixes and synonyms for summarising and paraphrasing purposes. Lesson 2 focuses on developing reading or listening skills, while Lesson 3 is an extension of reading and listening skills developed into writing assignments in later units. Lesson 4 is a further extension of reading or listening skills presented in Lesson 2 with further practice tasks for written or oral skills. At the end of each unit is a Vocabulary and Skills Bank which serves as a content summary.

The accompanying material is visually attractive. On the cover page are two images of a hotel reception and a hotel lounge, portraying a warm ambience. The words 'English for' are black and in smaller font, while 'TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY' are all white, capital letters in bigger fonts and 'in Higher Education Studies' are in white but smaller fonts, all set out strikingly against the brownish background colour. Each unit in turn is accompanied by interesting, colourful pictures, relevant charts, diagrams and exercises related to the unit's topic and content.

This 132-page course book is also user-friendly. In the front section are the author's Introduction and a Book Map (instead of the usual Contents page) explaining what each units entails. For example, Unit 6 includes:

• Content: The business of events tourism - reading and writing
• Topics: types of event: festivals, conventions, concerts etc, the life cycle of an event, the management of complex events
• Vocabulary focus: synonyms, replacement subjects etc for sentence-level paraphrasing
• Skills focus: reading - locating key information in complex sentences, writing - writing complex sentences, reporting findings from other sources

The end section includes additional material such as 'symbols and abbreviations for notes', 'sample student notes', 'role cards', 'model Cornell notes' 'wordlist with essential words related to tourism and hospitality from each unit' and 'transcripts of lectures used for listening exercises for Units 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11'.

This course book not only provides graded activities to measure understanding and progress of students, but also gives students the opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge as output tasks. For example, each unit provides 4-6 hours of classroom input and activity with a possible further 2-4 hours of extra practice tasks. Each unit has an 'Extending skills' component that gives students practice in summarising, paraphrasing and also using the Internet to research and write reports on topics related to the particular unit.

Overall, the author's rationale for the use of the book and the way each unit is set out clearly matches the contents in all twelve units. Because the key content of each unit is the development of all four language skills related to English-medium tertiary level studies (specifically tourism and hospitality) in addition to raising cultural awareness, this course book is well-suited for both teachers and students. It will be invaluable as a resource for teachers involved in teaching English for academic and specific purposes. However, a Teacher's Book, providing detailed guidance on each lesson with full answer keys and extra photocopiable resources, needs to be used in conjunction with this student book. Likewise, this course book will be beneficial for students from both English-speaking and non-English-speaking backgrounds. Yet, because no answer keys are provided for the exercises, most students may not benefit fully from this course book if they wish to use it for self-study purposes."

"This course book is designed to be used in higher education. Each of the twelve units is divided into four lessons. Tourism is extremely well covered, with topics including marketing, eco-tourism, hospitality and culture. The vocabulary is highly appropriate. The book includes a vast range of academic study skills, such as listening to lectures, note-taking and essay planning, and this focus on EAP is seamlessly integrated into the material. The layout is clear, with good photographs, pictures and diagrams. The writer and publisher have succeeded in providing stimulating material, supported by an extensive teacher's book. This contains an activity bank of useful photocopiable worksheets. Worth investigation."

As the description of the book aptly summarizes: "This is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of tourism and hospitality who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progression in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking in seminars. It also equips students with the specialist language they need to participate successfully within a tourism and hospitality faculty".

This course book is well-structured. Each unit is divided into 4 sections: vocabulary skills, reading of listening text and skills development, reading of listening skills extension and, finally, a lesson in which students have to use the new skills to decode. In addition, the last two pages of each unit provide a vocabulary and skills bank, a useful summary of the unit content.

Although I do not primarily teach students of a tourism faculty, I have found this book very useful in teaching general business classes where the interest in such topics is high, for example in the catering industry or teaching hotel staff. There is a good mix of authentic listening and reading texts on the CDs which come with the course book as well as up-to-date articles about a whole range of topics such as backpacking, careers in the TTH sector, events' life cycles, hospitality marketing, to name but a few. There is also a good supply of additional material, including role cards.