Hospitality and Tourism Administration Program Allows For Further Education
Are you looking for a post-secondary Hospitality and Tourism Administration
program that not only prepares you for the field but also allows for a
seamless transition should you want to further your education? If so,
you may want to consider applying to Centennial College’s three-year
advanced diploma Hospitality and Tourism Administration offering. First
and foremost, the undertaking ensures grads have the know-how to enter
positions such in hotel and restaurant general management, human
resources management, sales and marketing management, convention
services coordination and tour coordination. Should they, however, want
to continue their education, qualified Hospitality and Tourism
Administration grads may participate in an articulated program with
selected universities, institutes and professional associations. These
partnerships allow graduates to apply academic credit towards further
study. The hospitality administration’s partners are: Athabasca
University, International Hotel Management Institute (Switzerland),
Ryerson University, Southern New Hampshire University (U.S.A.),
University of Calgary, University of New Brunswick and more.
To
apply for this tourism and hospitality administration offering, students
are required to have completed an Ontario Secondary School Diploma
(OSSD) or equivalent, or mature student status (19 years or older). They
must also have the English Grade 12 C or U or equivalent, or skills
assessment.
Once accepted, students study out of Centennial
College’s Progress Campus. This location can be used to students’
advantage during the time that they are in the Hospitality and Tourism
Administration offering because it boasts a full service hospitality
management centre, an onsite conference centre and state-of-the-art
computer labs. These facilities allow students to encounter real life
experiences, deal with customers and see what it takes to run facilities
similar to the ones in the industry.
The Hospitality and
Tourism Administration program itself emphasizes know-how for those who
plan to pursue a career in the tourism industry.
As such,
courses cover a full range of business practices in marketing, human
resources, finance and industry operations — as applied to the entire
hospitality and tourism field. Specific courses within the Hospitality
and Tourism Administration undertaking include: Hospitality Financial
Accounting (focuses on learners’ ability to use a variety of standard
problem solving tools of financial management and standard forms of
budgeting); Meeting and Convention Management (examines the history and
development of the meetings and convention industry. It gives students
the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to participate in the
planning of conventions and meetings of any size and scope); Customer
Relationship Management (examines the concepts, processes and
technologies an organization uses to achieve superior performance
through client intelligence); and more.
To round out the Hospitality Administration
and Tourism Administration training, students spend four days per week
for 15-week in a field placement. This course provides meaningful work
experience in approved jobs within the Hospitality and Tourism Industry,
enabling students to relate classroom theory to the practical world,
while adding another career educational dimension career preparation.
Field placement enables students to better understand the dynamics of
the industry, increase their knowledge of industry practices and
provides a competitive advantage of experience in the job market.