Hospitality and Tourism Administration Program Ensures Diverse Range of Career Opportunities for Grads
Posted by Jason White on Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Under: College Education
What good is a post-secondary program if it can't guarantee its students
a range of post-graduate options? After all, college and university
programs are the vessels that launch students' careers or help them
transition into further education should that be part of their goal.
Centennial College has a longstanding reputation for launching students
into success by ensuring they are totally career ready and by forging
relationships with other institutions that allow students to meet their
educational goals by applying credits to bypass certain courses and
graduate in less time.
Centennial College's Hospitality and Tourism Administration
is an excellent example of a program that presents students with a host
of options once they graduate. If students are ready to launch their
careers, they may do so in administrative positions in areas that cover
the entire hotel industry, including: financial management, housekeeping
management, food and beverage management, human resources, sales and
marketing management, general management, convention services
coordination and tour coordination.
This wide range of options ensures that students of the program will
certainly find a career that is in their area of interest. Students who,
on the other hand, wish to obtain more education can use Centennial
College's partnerships with selected universities, institutes and
professional associations to their advantage. This program's partners
are: Athabasca University, International Hotel Management Institute
(Switzerland), Vancouver Island University, University of Calgary,
University of Guelph, University of New Brunswick, University of South
Carolina (U.S.A.) and Royal Roads University (B.C.).
There are many other benefits to the program. Firstly, it takes three
years to complete, which ensures that students are obtaining a thorough
education and are being exposed to cover many topics that will fully
prepare them, including: dimensions of tourism, hospitality and tourism
marketing, theory of food, world geography for tourism, presenting and
communicating effectively, Ontario culture and heritage tourism product,
front office operations, wholesale tour operations, meeting and
convention management, groups and incentives, responsible tourism and
marketing strategies.
Secondly, it balances theory and application of that theory. Hands-on
practice is especially beneficial because it allows students to become
comfortable with the tasks they will complete — and there are plenty of
chances for students to practice on-campus. That's because the tourism
and hospitality administration offering is based at Progress Campus,
which is home to all School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culture programs
and includes a conference centre that is run by students, a restaurant
that serves as a living lab as well as residences, which give students
the opportunity to interact with “guests” and see how a hotel operates.
Another way in which students receive hands-on practice is to actually
be sent into the field to experience how their positions function in the
real world and how they will fit in with all of the other hotel
departments. The four-day-per-week, 15-week field placement takes place
in the final semester of the offering. It can be used to enhance
students' resume.
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Tags: hospitality administration tourism administration