Tourism & Hospitality Management (BS)

The Tourism & Hospitality Management bachelor’s degree program provides a broad-based option for students, incorporating the hotel, travel-tourism and food segments of the hospitality industry with special focus given to travel-tourism.

Upon completion of the program, graduates are expected to:

Apply the major concepts, skills and values of the tourism and hospitality industry.
Communicate effectively to diverse audiences, purposes and situations in the travel and hospitality industry.
Use decision–support tools to solve problems and facilitate organizational processes in the travel and hospitality industry.
Leverage critical thinking and knowledge of industry trends and conditions to enhance guest experience within the travel and hospitality industry.

Produce travel and tourism plans that have the potential to maximize the positive effect of tourism on a destination.
This program places an emphasis on tourism as the glue that holds the industry together, especially in course offerings and the term-long experiential learning program. The highlight of the degree is the Familiarization (FAM) Tour, a class project that includes planning a trip to a domestic or international destination. Students are required to research, budget, plan, promote and implement the tasks of a tour escort and tour guide.

Graduates may be employed in all industry segments due to the program's more generalized curriculum, but the emphasis on travel-tourism provides specific career options in destination marketing organizations such as convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) and tourism offices, resorts, tour operators, travel industry suppliers such as airlines, cruise lines or ground transportation, and various international operators.