Hospitality management (5 cr)

Objective

What is the scale of tourist movements in the 21st century? How to activate team skills by understanding the different tasks, activities and functions of your team when managing a hospitality organization? Why is there a need for sustainable tourism development? What are the topical issues, revealing the fast-changing nature of the tourism and hospitality business in terms of both demand and supply? How to be aware and understand the complexity and interconnection of the modern tourism and hospitality industry?

Course material

Learning material is on the Learn platform.

Study forms and methods

1. A learning pathway that accelerates studies:
Online studies according to the self controlled schedule.

2. Study course themes:
1. Trends in hospitality industry in the 21st century
2. Interdependence between tourism and hospitality industry
3. Going green in hospitality industry
4. Key Performance Indicators for a hospitality enterprise
5. Digitalization in hospitality industry

3. Work-integrated learning path:
If you work in a hospitality company, organization or a project offered by a higher education institution in the tourism and hospitality industry, you can complete the study course at your workplace/project either fully or partially.
Learning requires that you familiarize yourself with the topics covered in the Study Course and master them both in theory and in practice. You demonstrate your competence as evidence of competence, the extent of which is determined by the learning objectives of the course.

There are no live lectures or group work in this course.

Student workload

The course is 5 ECTS.

Further information

This course is included in 'Diploma of higher education in tourism and service business management' by Xamk Pulse.
Xamk's degree students cannot enroll on Xamk Pulse's courses.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Failed