e-learning @ Divine Word University: Courses

This unit follows on from Hospitality 1 (TH113) and Hospitality 2 (TH211) and explores in-depth management aspects of hotel operations. The unit is designed to provide an insight into the “real world” of managing hotel operations and develop strategic management and problem solving skills in today's dynamic hotel industry.

This unit is very rigourous. It follows from TH113 Hospitlity I and TH211 Hospitality 2. It equips students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to innovate, manage, and operate food and beverage outlets ranging from idependent, full service restaurants and fast food outlets to hotel owned and operated food & beverage outlets. For further details please refer the unit outline herein.

In this unit students build on from the theme of sustainability and become aware of the need for forms of tourism that are environmentally and culturally sensitive, and are considered as an appropriate form of development for a particular destination. The emphasis in Ecotourism is to minimize actual or potential bad impacts on the tourism resource and host destination, while instilling in tourism consumers and facilitators a responsible behaviour in the tourism experience. Students are exposed to planning and management concepts and ideas, and case studies that are relevant to discussing best practices in Ecotourism.

This unit builds on the idea of tourism as a recreational form of activity that contributes to community development. Community recreational activities can form strong links with tourism and therefore contribute to community development. Recreational facilities built for tourism can also contribute to community development. Students develop a link between recreational tourism and community development. They are able to identify cases of community development and apply models of community development using recreational forms, and understand group dynamics and collaboration in community development. This will enable students to work with communities.

This unit is underpinned by the principles of sustainability and includes topics on the coastal environment and factors that make it susceptible to environmental damage; islands as tourist destinations; cruise ship tourism; diving and snorkeling-based tourism; and tourism and conservation issues in the coastal environment. It explores the complex relationships among the ecological and social values of these environments and outlines strategies and tools for their management.