埃迪斯科文大学

The course covers the key aspects required for managing diverse hospitality and tourism businesses including marketing, financial management, business research and analytics, and strategic management.

It also features specialised units in food and beverage management, rooms division management, tourism planning and development, ecotourism, managing the service experience and event management.

Students can further specialise their studies with a stronger focus in various fields, such as event management, marketing, human resource management, and international business.

The hospitality and tourism industry is dynamic and fast-paced, presenting graduates with a wide variety of career options to choose from, and the course provides students the industry-focused theoretical knowledge and skills to succeed.

Graduates will gain the essential competencies and professional perspectives required by middle and senior levels of management in contemporary hospitality and tourism organisations.

Learning Outcomes

• Access, analyse and critically evaluate relevant information to solve challenging business problems systematically.
• Apply broad knowledge, with depth in discipline, to a range business situations, incorporating international/global/cultural perspectives.
• Collaborate effectively in team settings to produce measurable outcomes, including the ability to be able to evaluate team processes.
• Communicate business knowledge, concepts and advice persuasively and clearly in both written and oral formats, using relevant technology and transliteracy proficiency
• Value professional behaviours and/or personal citizenship that reflect an appreciation of the interrelationship between business ethics and corporate social responsibility.

Employment Opportunities

Career opportunities for graduates exist globally within a diverse range of hospitality and tourism businesses including hotels, resorts, tour companies, travel agencies, cruise ships, visitor centres, theme parks and visitor attraction sites, convention centres, events companies, restaurants, cafes and bars. Within these types of businesses, students may be involved in the operations and management of accommodation provision and servicing, food and beverage services (including in restaurants, cafes and bars), entertainment, gaming, conferences, events and banquets, tourism operations, visitor services, sales and marketing or the hiring, training and supervising of staff.

Possible future job titles

Hotel Manager, Resort Manager, Food and Beverage Manager, Front Office Manager, Hotel Sales Manager, Tour Operator, Visitor Centre Manager, Theme Park Manager, Cruise Ship Supervisor, Eco-tourism Operator.