A Comparative Review of Two ESP Books

The purpose of this paper is to perform an in-depth analysis of and to draw a comparison between two ESP textbooks designed to be used by students of tourism and hospitality. The first textbook is “English for International Tourism: Pre-Intermediate,” a course written by Iwonna Dubicka and Margaret O’Keeffe and published by Pearson Longman and Dorling Kindersley in 2003. The other textbook examined here is a single-level course entitled “English for the Students of Tourism and Hotel Management.” This book was written by Gholam-Reza Kiany and Maryam Khezrinejad and is a 2004 product of an Iranian publisher: SAMT. The evaluation criteria are approach and methodology, language skills, language components, choice of topics and content, and finally layout and design. All in all, the first book did better than the second one in the review by all the criteria applied.