Hospitality management studies

Hospitality management is the study of the hospitality industry. A degree in the subject may be awarded either by a university college dedicated to the studies of hospitality management or a business school with a relevant department. Degrees in hospitality management may also be referred to as hotel management, hotel and tourism management, or hotel administration. Degrees conferred in this academic field include BA, Bachelor of Business Administration, BS, BASc, MS, MBA, and PhD. Hospitality management covers hotels, restaurants, cruise ships, amusement parks, destination marketing organizations, convention centers, and country clubs.

Curriculum

In the United States, hospitality and tourism management curricula follow similar core subject applications to that of a business degree, but with a focus on hospitality management. Core subject areas include accounting, administration, finance, information systems, marketing, human resource management, public relations, strategy, quantitative methods, and sectoral studies in the various areas of hospitality business.

Vegetarian option

In 2016, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India started giving hospitality management students the option to choose only vegetarian cooking. This was introduced at three of the institutes (IHMCTAN Ahmedabad, IHMCTAN Bhopal and IHMCTAN Jaipur) affiliated with the Ministry. Earlier, similar to the curriculum pattern in most culinary institutes of the world, it was compulsory for all IHMCTAN students to learn non-vegetarian cooking. This decision to offer a vegetarian option by IHMCTANs may be the first amongst any of the hospitality training institutes of the world. It is expected that all IHMCTANs in India will start offering a vegetarian cooking option from academic year 2017 onwards.

Rankings of degree-granting programs

These top ten lists are specific to departments that specifically give degrees in the hospitality field itself. For the more general type of degree, see the list of business schools in the United States, and similar articles for other countries. For restaurant-related hospitality industry degrees in nutrition, see list of universities with accredited dietetic programs. For overall rankings of universities by various metrics, see college and university rankings.

Opinion surveys of employers in the hospitality industry

In a broad industry survey of senior managers from luxury hotels in 2013, conducted a market survey of hospitality employers regarding their opinions of the top ten hospitality management schools. Laureate Hospitality Education, a division of Laureate Education Inc, commissioned TNS to conduct each of these surveys, and 2 schools out of 10 (numbers 6, 8) belong to Laureate Hospitality Education. The result appeared as follows:

1. École hôtelière de Lausanne, Lausanne - Switzerland
2. Hotelschool The Hague, The Hague/Amsterdam - Netherlands
3. Cornell University, USA
4. Glion Institute of Higher Education, Glion - Switzerland
5. The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management, Dubai - United Arab Emirates
6. Les Roches International School of Hotel Management, Switzerland/Spain
7. Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
8. Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School, Leura - Australia
9. Florida International University, Miami - Florida
10. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom - Hong Kong

Publication surveys in hospitality-related academia

The Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research completed an analysis of the top ten hospitality and tourism programs in the world. The results appeared as follows:

1. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
2. Cornell University, USA
3. Michigan State University, USA
4. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
5. Pennsylvania State University, USA
6. University of Surrey, United Kingdom
7. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
8. Purdue University, USA
9. Oklahoma State University, USA
10. University of Central Florida, USA

See also

• American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
• Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality
• Faculty of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Business of Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics
• Hospitality service
• Hotel manager
• MICE

References