New fields of law are often occasioned by the rise of new technologies—the international law of space, cyber law and the developing law governing human reproduction are three examples that come to mind. Travel Law: Cases and Materials, authored and edited by two professors of law and a professor of hotel administration, is a survey of a “new” field of law, not in the sense of the examples recited above, but rather in recognition that certain disparate areas of the law should be studied and applied in a single “new” context. It should come as no surprise that in Europe, Travel Law has been a recognized field of law for many years. International travel on that subcontinent has been common for many hundreds of years. But for residents of the United States international travel has only recently been within the means of the average person. The authors describe the resulting