Employability and Skills Handbook for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Students

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-49394-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 252 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 1048 g

This handbook provides students with an essential understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to work in the tourism, hospitality and events industries. It offers reflective, reflexive and critical analysis on personal, academic and professional development.

Not only looking at how to develop the skills, attributes and prospects for employment in these competitive industries, this handbook also focuses on what the employers in tourism, hospitality and events sectors require of graduate employees. Highly illustrated, the chapters contain think points and activities, and case studies are integrated throughout offering first hand advice from both employer and graduate perspectives.

The first book to focus on skills and employability in tourism, hospitality and events, this is a must read for all students studying these fields.

Zielgruppe

Further/Vocational Education and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Firth, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Employability skills for tourism, hospitality and events management 1. Introduction to the textbook 2. Sector overviews 3. Graduate employment 4. Skills for tourism, hospitality and events employment 5. Text structure Part Two: Personal development 6. Personal development in tourism, hospitality and Events 7. Self-awareness 8. Relationship skills 9. Time management 10. Learning styles 11. Effective communication Part Three: Academic development strategies 12. Goals and targets 13. Finding academic articles 14. Reading academic texts 15. Academic writing 16. Secondary and primary sources 17. Motivating yourself 18. Group work and alternative assessments Part Four: Professional development 19. Leadership styles: evidencing reflective and reflexive thinking, learning and doing 20. Networking 21. Coaching and mentoring 22. Forms of employment experience 23. Career mapping

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Miriam Firth has worked, researched and taught in tourism, hospitality and events management programmes for over 15 years. Building upon a career in hotel, restaurant and festival management she specialises in supporting the employability of students, and professional development for management in these sectors. From working, and the continued research, in these industries, her publications are informed from both published research and active experience in the contexts into which students will graduate. She is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester (ranked 27th in the world in 2019), Programme Director of BA (hons) Management, Leadership and Leisure, and Director of Teaching and Learning Strategy.