Hospitality business development (5 cr)
Code: MR00DU61-3008
General information
- Enrollment
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06.11.2023 - 17.11.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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04.03.2024 - 30.04.2024
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 1 cr
- Virtual portion
- 4 cr
- RDI portion
- 4 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Unit
- Department of Tourism, Hospitality Management and Youth Work
- Campus
- Mikkeli Campus
- Ecampus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 20 - 50
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Tourism and Service Business
- Teachers
- Kirsi Kuusisto
- Teacher in charge
- Kirsi Kuusisto
- Groups
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MRMI22SPTourism and Service Business, full-time studies
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MRKT22SVTourism and service business, online studies
- Course
- MR00DU61
Objective
You can identify and evaluate the development needs of tourism and hospitality business. You strengthen your development skills.
You become familiar with the financing resources of development projects and the factors affecting the quality and effectiveness of development activities.
You can plan and implement tourism and hospitality business development processes and report on them.
Content
What kind of development activities are there in the hospitality field and how can the development needs be identified?
What kind of development methods are used in the development work of hospitality business?
How do you plan and implement the development project?
How do you assess the quality and effectiveness of the development activities?
Where do you find the recourses and funding for development activities?
The course involves a practical project with a case company or organization.
Evaluation
Students can:
use professional vocabulary systematically.
look for information in the key information sources of the field.
identify interrelated tasks.
work together with customers, users and target groups.
use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.
work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.
Course material
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Study forms and methods
Opintojakso opiskellaan pääosin hybriditoteutuksena. Lisäksi osa ohjaustapaamisista on eriytettynä lähi- ja verkkototeutuksille.
Opintojakso sisältää neljä hybriditapaamista. Luennot tallennetaan ja se on katsottavissa myöhemmin Learn -alustan linkin kautta. Päivätoteutuksessa opiskeleville opiskelijoille ohjausklinikat toteutetaan lähiopetuksena (2 kpl). Verkkototeutuksen opiskelijoille ohjausklinikat toteutetaan verkkovälitteisesti (2 kpl).
Työelämälähtöinen oppimisväylä: Opintojakso on mahdollista integroida työelämään.
RDI and work-related cooperation
Opintojaksoon liittyy käytännönläheinen työelämäprojekti.
Timing of exams and assignments
Työelämäprojekti tehdään ryhmätyönä opintojakson aikana.
Oppimistehtävät tulee palauttaa niille määrättyihin palautuspäiviin mennessä.
Student workload
135h
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment methods and criteria
Opintojakso arvioidaan ryhmätyönä tehdyn työelämäprojektin perusteella.
Qualifications
Completing the course requires basic knowhow and skills related to the hospitality business and basic research and development skills.