The successful textbook builds on the content and methodology of the textbook "Gastronomy Basics." It includes the learning fields for the second and third years of training for hotel management professionals. The 4th edition has undergone a comprehensive update. This includes topics such as legal regulations, like the new wine regulation and allergen labeling, as well as the new reporting law that comes into effect in 2015, new criteria for hotel classification that will be valid from 2015, sustainability as a marketing tool, guest-oriented services in hotels, online presence and social networks, as well as online reservation systems and online review portals, new screenshots of hotel software, and updated statistics and illustrations. The area of specialized calculations and the specialized languages of French and English have once again been included as before. Practice-oriented.