This specialization is the perfect choice for outgoing high school graduates who have perhaps gained practical education in the tourism and hospitality sectors prior to entering the program via apprenticeship, vocational school, associate degrees or equivalentand your primary focus is to pursue a career in the hotel industry.
COURSES
Revenue Management & Distribution
Understand how it is possible to achieve maximum profit from certain invested capital and assess the potential and risks involved in revenue management implementation. An emphasis is on the current world tourism crisis and how revenue management relates to pricing and distribution.
Managing Hospitality Talent
An opportunity for personal evaluation to aide learning, you will be asked to create a personal career plan and explore it from an organizational perspective of talent identification, professional development, motivation, and retention.
Hotel Asset Management
Asset management requires a cross-functional approach to achieve continued value - from selection, design, acquisition, operation, maintenance, and renewal of infrastructure.
Hotel Business Development Strategies
Explore the strategic expansion decision making process and economic rationale many hotel companies face. Underpinned by a fundamental understanding of hotel business structure andbecoming familiar with theories and modes of expansion strategies of hotel chains.
Hotel Property Development
Development is a key performance indicator of any hotel business, so here in this course lies the underlying principles of hotel planning, assessing the commercial viability of hotel real estate projectsalongside the roles essential stakeholders have in the project development process.
Strategic Hotel Management
Functioning as a capstone subject, this course draws on many topics covered in the first two years of your program but aims to deepen that knowledge and put it to practice in a simulated experience, testing financial decision making and key performance indicators.