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Bachelor of Science in Business Management: Hospitality and Tourism
Designed to prepare you for a career in the hospitality and tourism industry, you’ll learn the business basics while developing skills and knowledge in various hospitality sectors including customer service, revenue management, restaurant design, menu engineering, venue management, and itinerary creation.
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What You'll Learn
You’ll learn the essential business principles — such as business applications, law, human resources, and marketing — but also gain a global perspective, emphasizing the creative decision-making techniques needed to succeed in the hospitality and tourism industry whether you plan to stay nearby or travel the globe. With the foundational knowledge of hospitality and tourism operations and experiences, and you will develop the leadershipy to successfully operate a hospitality and tourism organization. You will be able to formulate business decisions in hospitality and tourism management, and you develop the leadership principles necessary to be a beacon in the diverse and global hospitality and tourism industry.
Blaze Your Path
Sample Courses
Event Management
This course views the methods of organizing various events. Preparing for events such as  conventions, ceremonies, shows, sporting events, and other small to large events. Areas of event planning that will be discussed are security, organization of the site, personnel, communications, and creativity
Tourism Management
Tourism is a dynamic field where business, government, and society intersect. This course explores the major concepts in tourism such as what makes tourism possible and how it can affect the economy of a nation or region. This course will provide an overview of the principles, practices, and philosophies that can affect the cultural, social, economic, psychological, and marketing aspects of the travel and tourism industry.
Restaurant Management
Principles of current food and beverage management are presented. Topic areas include management and leadership, communications, and working with the restaurant industry whether it is a chain or privately owned. Students will apply these concepts during college-wide events.
Hotel Management
This course is an overview of managing in the lodging industry. Students will explore various careers available in the hotel industry. Topics include management and leadership, communications, working with management companies, and ethics within the industry.
Hospitality Information Systems
An introduction to the use and application of information systems in the hospitality field. Students will run reports related to the industry and make decisions from the reports. Students will examine reports in areas such as forecasting, inventory, reservations, personnel, and scheduling.
Hospitality Law
A review of the laws and regulations that govern the hospitality field is presented. Students are exposed to laws that relate to employment and civil rights. Other laws include liabilities in the lodging and food industries. Contracts and various legal forms will also be presented.
Field Experience and Internships
Business Management in Hospitality and Tourism majors are required are required to complete 80 hours of experiential learning and
internships
. The knowledge, skills, and experience you gain — in the classroom and through internships — will boost your resume and your confidence with real-world work experience. Recent internship experiences at Disney World, Marriott Hotel Palm Beach, and Old Faithful Yellowstone National Park.
Experiential Learning
Offering directed excursions for academic majors, the experiential learning trips include itineraries that are geared toward specific degree programs, like the Business Management Hospitality and Tourism program’s Royal Caribbean cruise. The focus is out-of-the-classroom learning related to a specific degree program. Any enrolled Beacon student may apply with priority to degree-specific students. Costs vary depending on location.
Career Opportunities
Students with a B.S. in Business Management Hospitality and Tourism can immediately begin working in the field or continue to graduate school for advanced study.
Hotel manager
Restaurant manager
Event management
Resort management
Tourism
Convention event management
Club manager
Front office clerk
Night auditor
Food and beverage director
Tour director
Cruise director
Meet Your Instructors
Dr.
Teri Hunter
Assistant Professor
352-638-9802
thunter@beaconcollege.edu
Meet Your General Education Instructors
Angel Maldonado
Dean of Curriculum and Innovation
352-315-9269
amaldonado@beaconcollege.edu
Jessica Caolo
Assistant Professor
352-315-1082
jcaolo@beaconcollege.edu
Christina Hansen
Instructor
352-764-6361
chansen@beaconcollege.edu
Dr.
Patricia Konovalov
Professor
352-638-9815
pkonovalov@beaconcollege.edu
Jodi Livingston
Instructor
352-787-1525
jlivingston@beaconcollege.edu
Dr.
Mary-Anne Primack
Assistant Professor
352-787-2912
mprimack@beaconcollege.edu
Autumn Welt
Assistant Professor
352-787-1056
awelt@beaconcollege.edu
Hospitality Minor
A minor in Business Management Hospitality and Tourism provides students with the groundwork for incorporating business skills into various organizations through knowledge of hospitality basics such as events, hotels, and restaurant management. The minor is an excellent complement to a degree in
Design and Digital Media
,
Humanities
, or
Human Services
.
Learn More About Business Management Hospitality and Tourism
To schedule a visit, please contact our admissions team at
admissions@beaconcollege.edu
, or call
352-638-9731
or
855-220-5376
(toll-free).
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