This book explores “change” in the world, and assists hospitality and tourism leaders with forecasting these changes. The book looks at the current state of the industry and makes educated predictions as to the future of the lodging, cruise, restaurant, technology, and travel industries. Material features future forecasts, terrorism alerts to hospitality and tourism, trends for industry, the troubled airline industry, the cruise industry, and an annotated bibliography. For lodging, cruise, travel and restaurant industry executives.