Professional Communication – Creating A Dictionary For Hotel Operations

The paper analyzes subject matters like professional communication, professional needs, documentation, terminography, and translation and how they interconnect to give a comprehensive insight about the terminology of a broad area of social relevance – hospitality industry. The second part of the paper deals with the importance of creating a dictionary of hotel operations, taking into account that the average language user relies on a dictionary as authoritative source of information. The third part of the paper provides an overview of the Dictionary of Hotel Operations in English-Romanian-Italian, specifically the process of dictionary compilation and its structure, after identifying the needs and skills of the target user.