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.
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
