Hospitality Management

decoration Hospitality Management

Purpose
Hospitality Management prepares students for diverse and exciting career opportunities in the hospitality industry that include hotel and restaurant management, event coordination, conference center management, and tourism-related operations, through professional courses integrated with practical experiences.

Learning Outcomes

The graduate of the One-Year Certificate program will:

  • understand broad hospitality and food service concepts
  • be knowledgeable of the travel and tourism industry and the operation of hospitality services
  • become familiar with front desk operations including reservations, room assignments, management statistical reports, and handling financial operations
  • become acquainted with the hospitality industry through field trips to local motels, hotels, and convention centers

In addition to the above outcomes, the graduate of the two-year AAS will:

  • operate equipment used in the industry—including point of sales systems, computers, and computer software
  • manage conferences, special events, and trade shows
  • supervise housekeeping operations
  • manage property in hospitality operations and resorts
  • develop strong customer service skills and practices
  • demonstrate strong communications, problem-solving, and human relations skills

Important Skills

Important skills identified by hospitality industry leaders at a recent Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Advisory Committee meeting:

  • People Skills/Communication
  • Attitude
  • Team Building Skills
  • Problem Solving Skills
  • Leadership, Supervisory, and Management skills.

 

Liaison to the area
Juanita Benedicto
Reference Librarian
E-mail: benedictoj@lanecc.edu
Phone: (541) 463-5357
Web: http://www.lanecc.edu/library/staff/juanita/

Allocation
Hospitality Management shares an annual allocation $1000 with the Culinary Arts & Food Service Management Progam. This amount goes towards books, videos, and journals.

Monographic support
The call number range for the Hospitality industry falls between TX851-TX985. The average publication date for books in this call number range [TX] is 1988.

Other areas of support include

Journals, including e-journals

Online databases

General databases

  • Academic Search Premier: Provides full-text for more than 4,450 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
  • MasterFILE Premier: This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications. Includes nearly 400 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Business

  • Business Source Premier: Provides full text for more than 3,650 scholarly business journals. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. Updated on a daily basis.
  • Regional Business News: Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily.

Newspapers

  • The Oregonian
  • New York Times Online
  • Register-Guard
  • Newspaper Source

Library instruction

  • None at this time

Statement of future direction
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