罗彻斯特理工学院

The hospitality and tourism degree provides an in-depth understanding of the hospitality and tourism industry and prepares students to enter nearly any segment of the industry, including lodging, hotels, restaurants, casinos, cruise line operations, resorts and spas, event management, or airline catering.

Among the biggest evolutions in the hospitality field is the impact of technology on the guest experience, food service and delivery, and more. Technology, along with data analytics, is driving how hospitality professionals are interacting with guests and managing their expectations. From apps that help plan and manage guest experiences, to wearables that unlock guest room doors, to online check-in and food ordering, today’s hospitality professionals must be knowledgeable of how the latest technology is being used to improve the guest experience. Hospitality and tourism majors study the hospitality industry alongside students majoring in computing, information sciences, engineering, business, entrepreneurship, and more. This exposes students to diverse ideas from those studying in other majors. This powerful experience can help inform the senior capstone project, where students tackle a hospitality industry problem and propose an innovative solution.

Plan of study

The hospitality and tourism management major includes a comprehensive core curriculum that lays a strong foundation in the core principles of hospitality, service management, and tourism operations. Students also develop an essential set of skills, operations analysis, project management, food safety, traditional and digital marketing, facilities management, strategic planning, information systems, real estate, and human resource management which are needed to successfully manage the operations of all types of hospitality careers that occur across all industry sectors.

Students can customize the major around their career aspirations and interests by creating a three-to-five course sequence from disciplines from across RIT’s nine colleges. This broadens their knowledge and expands their expertise. Courses in innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, packaging science, web design and development, and more expand upon the major's core courses and create opportunities for students to engage in hospitality and tourism management in new, exciting ways.