Hospitality Law: Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry

By David K. Hayes and Stephen C. Barth

Book Overview

"Hospitality Law: Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry, Sixth Edition was written to help teach hospitality students what they need to know to manage a facility legally, safely, and securely. It takes an applied approach to the study of hospitality law with its touchstone of compliance and prevention. The book is highly pedagogical and includes many interactive exercises and real-world cases that help students focus on the practical application of hospitality laws and model their decision process to avoid liability. The authors immediately help readers learn about the legalities of situations and work through exercises - both individually and in groups - to effectively apply them to hospitality management situations. Many instructors teach their course from a very applied perspective, which aligns with the book's approach. The legal information provided is carefully selected to specifically correlate with helping students understand how to do the right thing, i.e., it is not a comprehensive book on the laws"--

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1394321201
• ISBN13: 9781394321209
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 352 Pages

Customer Reviews

Law, Made it easy.

The authors made the legal issues easy to understand. I was out there looking for a such book for a long long time, and this is the book. This book helpes me to be prepared for some potential legal matters that I may have to face in a complicated casino hotel environment. I had a great opportunity to meet with the author Stephen Barth at the New York Hotel Show one year. He was a keynote speaker.

Minimize legal difficulties

As President & CEO of the Texas Hotel and Motel Association, I have known Stephen Barth as a revered professor of hospitality law at the University of Houston's Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, as a tremendously popular seminar leader, and now, I am pleased to say, as an outstanding author.His book, Hospitality Law, provides an up-to-date information source that can teach practicing hospitality managers and students how to avoid and minimize legal difficulties they might otherwise face in the running of lodging properties. The book is well written, easy to follow, and best of all, gives examples from the actual operations of lodging and restaurant establishments. Especially strong are the sections on contract law, safety and security, and employment issues. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the legal issues that arise in the everyday decisions that a lodging property professional must make.

Great industry resource

Great industry resource for lodging and hospitality managers. This book is far more practical than others Ive used or reviewed. Mr. Barth makes the book usuable for students, yet extremely practical for those already in working in the field. We now promote and encourage the use of this book with all those we work with.