Hotel and Tourism Management

In relation to hospitality and catering, the non-commercial or “public” sector exists in the form of hospitals and institutes of education. Organisations in the commercial sector are privately owned and exist solely to find a niche to exploit to make money. While money-making is still a factor in the private sector, it is not the main goal. With the primary goal, demographic and expectations of the target audience, along with location and budget, all taken into account, different areas of the hospitality and catering industry begin to differ widely.

The hospitality industry is a very lucrative and rewarding career choice. Choosing a career in this field is not for the faint at heart. A career in this industry requires an individual that is ambitious, self-motivated, and has a charismatic personality. However, the hard work comes with many personal and financial rewards. Hospitality covers all careers that can come underneath the lodging, restaurants, event planning, theme parks, transportation, and tourism. However, this paper will go in depth explaining the role of general management, growth of employment, and human

The beginning of my time at Florida State University I was not convinced I had made the right decision to pursue a major in Professional Golf Management. My studies weakened and I changed majors numerous times. Had it not been for the roadblocks, challenges, and temporary diversions at FSU, I may have never realized my passion for Hospitality Management. When I first entered FSU the PGA Golf Management major was housed in the College of Business, but at the time of my re-admittance to the program it had been switched to the Dedman School of Hospitality with a degree in Hospitality Management. It was

The focus of this strategy is highlighting the position attributes as the main competitive advantage of Schlegel Villages. This includes flexible hours, vacations/sabbaticals, weekend availability, level of pay, quality of compensation and benefits packages. It will evaluate students based on their skills and can incorporate Robert Katz’s three skill approach to assess them: technical skills, human skills and conceptual skills (Virkus, 2009). It will focus on matching students to their preferred entry-level jobs, especially in the summer or part-time during the school year.

During my junior year of high school, I became extremely confident in the idea that I wanted to pursue a career in the field of Event Management with a major in Hospitality Management. Due to the fact that my major of choice is somewhat general, it is offered at many different universities worldwide. I had to ask myself, where could I truly excel in this career field and what university would give me the opportunity to apply my skills in the real world? New York University was always one of my top choices on my list of colleges to apply to, but it wasn’t until I discovered the NYU School of Professional Studies Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism that NYU became my number one school of choice. Reading about the Jonathan M.

The Rosen College of Hospitality Management decided to bring back a similar version of a class from the college’s

The data for research was gathered through primary research, in form of mailed questionnaire of opinions, performance and career paths to investigate whether formal qualifications would help the general managers in their career development. The research focussed on the career progression of general managers with qualifications or without qualifications, in 50 plus bedroom hotels that appeared on the Scottish Tourist Board. This article is useful for future graduates and future managers or general managers as it gives information of the beginning level to be a manager in hotel industry. The limitation for this research was, only 54 questionnaires were returned from 96 those were delivered. As the consequences, bias that affected data reliability and result did not represent the total sample of population. Based on research findings, the author concluded that within the changes of industry, it increases the demand for general managers to be more business-oriented. Therefore, universities start to reduce traditional approach such as food and beverage operations in the students’ subject. Moreover, formal qualifications have become an essential part for managers’ carrier in Scotland and were recognized by giving benefits in function managerial skills rather than personal transferable skills such as communication, time management, decisions making and leadership qualities. This article is useful for industry as it provides the combination of information including theories and traditional compares with modern approaches to achieve the General Manager position. It also helps educational providers to modify and improve the hospitality students’ curricula in order to meet the needs of current industry

Hotel Management is such a core and foremost part of international global business related to hospitality industry which provides world-wide opportunity for different fields of jobs. I decided that hospitality management program is such a turning point for me to do better in future career prospects. Hospitality management course is a proper platform for students to develop their personal confidence and development of enthusiasm.

In this assignment, I will be discussing what curriculum means, who and what factors can influence and impact the design of curriculum. Also defining the main theories models and ideologies and how they contribute to my curriculum, and how they can change various teaching methods. Concluding with, proposed solutions to improve the curriculum within the Hospitality department.

Five years ago was when I knew I wanted to work within the hospitality industry. This was the time in my life where I came to the realization that this fun and entertaining industry was a place where I could develop a career. Every since this time in my life I have been creating goals for my career and steps to achieve these goals. One of these steps to achieving a successful career includes attending a university to study hospitality. This step has brought me to this point, where I am creating goals specifically for this course. I believe creating these goals will put me in a position to better succeed. I know being successful in this course is important because the information taught will help me in achieving my career goals.

Here for this project, I will be first collecting secondary information on Hospitality Management and Hotel Management. I will then be analyzing the Marketing models adopted by various hotel groups in India. I believe, I will be able to find a relation with Marketing and Customer Retention in every major group of hotels. I then would be interviewing Managers and other staffs of the Hotel of my study for the basic primary data. Interviews and questionnaire distribution to various customers of the hotel would be done only as the final step so that I do not disturb the visitors of the

Even when the world economy is showing a sluggish growth with uncertain employment prospects, the fast growing hospitality industry is heralding a pivotal change in career options with an exciting variety of career choices thereby increasing scope and future prospect of hospitality and tourism industry.

In the hospitality industry, which essentially comprises both a production and a service aspect, the creation and provision of services from the hotel to the customer are primarily achieved through the employee, i.e., the hotel’s representative. In this sense, the employees essentially

Being a Hotel General Manager would be my ideal job in the Lodging Industry. To get the that point of being a General Manager would take years of working in the hotel industry as well as having the proper education to preform the job. My plan of action would be to start out as a check-in agent or a front desk associate at a hotel. This would give me experience in working with guests and with numbers, knowledge every General Manager needs. Working at the front desk initially would give me a good idea what each department in the hotel does, and perhaps I would move on to another job in the hotel just to gain more experience. A good General Manager needs to know how everything in the hotel functions.

I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at any educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis.