Tourism and Hospitality Global Major

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This is a rapidly growing area which offers a variety of career paths with a focus on global tourism and hospitality experience and industries. By introducing students to a range of managerial principles as well as their applications in situ in a diverse global learning environment of multiple Curtin campuses, the Global major provides students with the relevant knowledge and skills to become effective managers in tourism and hospitality and closely related sectors within Australia and overseas supported through authentic global learning. Students will for instance study contemporary issues in international tourism; discuss the sustainable management of tourism and hospitality in theory and practice; learn about the wider impacts of tourism and hospitality upon the local and global economy; and, also the role of marketing in these sectors. Students are required to study at a minimum of two Curtin global campuses to fulfil the requirements of this major.

This major can be studied in the Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Innovation, Bachelor of Advanced Commerce (Honours) or Bachelor of Arts.

Recommended Double Major pairings for the Tourism and Hospitality Global Major are: Tourism and Hospitality/Human Resource Management, Tourism and Hospitality Global/Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Tourism and Hospitality/Management Global, Tourism and Hospitality Global/Marketing, Tourism and Hospitality Global/Business Information Systems, Tourism and Hospitality Global/Finance.

Recommended Tourism and Hospitality Global Major pairings with Business Specialisations are Tourism and Hospitality Global/Event Management Specialisation, Tourism and Hospitality Global/Marketing Foundations Specialisation, Tourism and Hospitality Global/Public Relations Specialisation, Tourism and Hospitality Global/Retail and Supply Chain Specialisation, Tourism and Hospitality Global/Small Business Start-Up Specialisation.

What you'll learn

• apply key theoretical principles and practical underpinnings of tourism and hospitality management to industry and business from a conceptual and practical approach, GC1, GC2, GC4
• interpret leadership, ethical and responsible practices, and professional integrity when organising to work within the tourism and hospitality industry, GC1, GC2, GC4
• evaluate information from multiple sources relevant to the many dimensions of tourism and hospitality globally and relate this knowledge from a variety of perspectives to a particular problem setting, GC3, GC5, GC6
• critically formulate innovative and sustainable propositions, supported by appropriate communication and technologies, to manage challenges faced locally and globally by the tourism and hospitality industry, CG2, GC3, GC5, GC6