It is a long-awaited, abridged and generally more affordable version of The International Encyclopaedia of Hospitality Management (Pizam 2005). To the best of the reviewer’s knowledge, the International Dictionary of Hospitality Management is the first ever dictionary entirely devoted to the area of Hospitality Management. Bierce defines a dictionary as: “a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic”, adding the caveat that his own dictionary, however, “is a most useful work”. When reviewing a dictionary, the definition of a dictionary as presented by Ambrose Bierce in his Devil’s Dictionary, first published in 1881, springs to mind.
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