Hotel Management Program Gets You Industry-Ready in Just One Year
If you’re looking to attend a hotel management program that not only
prepares you for the industry but offers you a field placement that may
result in positions with reputable companies such as Delta Hotels &
Resorts, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Four Seasons Hotels &
Resorts, InterContinental Hotel Group, Marriott Hotels & Resorts,
Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, and more,
don’t look further than Centennial College’s Hotel, Resort and
Restaurant Management offering. If your interest is one of the varied
areas of tourism and hospitality such as hotel and restaurant general
management, human resources management, sales and marketing management,
convention services management, and cruise lines this offering will
serve you well. In just one year, you can enter this industry, which
brings in $18.8-billion in national accommodation revenue through 8,356
properties with 378,000 employees (as reported in 2008 by the Hotel
Association of Canada).
First and foremost, to apply to Centennial College’s hotel management program,
you must have finished a college diploma or university degree in
hospitality, tourism or related discipline. In addition, you may apply
if you have a partial post secondary education and relevant work
experience in hospitality. Applicants who wish to attend the hotel
management courses at Centennial must be prepared to present a resume
with relevant work experience as it may be requested.
Once you
are accepted, your short yet intensive time in the hotel management
program will include key management areas such as: finance, human
resources, labour relations, oenology, international operations,
leadership, entrepreneurship, security and risk, service quality,
marketing and revenue management. Specific hotel management courses in
which you will partake include Hospitality Marketing Strategies (builds
on basic marketing concepts to enable students to analyze and apply the
principles of marketing through the integration of marketing variables
with real-world situations and in-depth analysis of strategic marketing
strategies); Hospitality Financial Management (focuses on the learner’s
ability to use a variety of standard problem solving tools of financial
management and budgetary control methods); Human Resources and Labour
Relations Management (emphasis of the course is on every manager’s
responsibility to manage human resources and staff reporting. Through
the use of case studies and exercises, issues such as employee
motivation, conflict resolution, performance management, labour
relations and negotiations are covered); and more.
In addition to attending hotel management courses,
students also use on-campus facilities such as modern computer labs,
operational lab practice facilities, an on-site conference centre, and a
full-service student-operated restaurant called Horizons for hands-on
training. The hotel management program is rounded out with a two days
per week industry placement for 15 weeks in semester two. The hotel
management program field placement provides the student with meaningful
work experience in approved jobs within the hospitality industry,
enabling him or her to relate classroom theory to the practical world,
while adding another career educational dimension to career preparation.
Field placement also enables the student to better understand the
dynamics of the industry, increase his or her knowledge of industry
practices and provides a competitive advantage of experience in the job
market.
