Bachelor BSc Culinary Arts Business
HTMi, Hotel and Tourism Management Institute
Lucerne, SwitzerlandCulinary Hospitality Enterprise Project
The culinary industry is among the fastest growing segments of the hospitality industry. This course will focus on on-premise culinary arts functions, and the management of large scale, special culinary events. The course will follow contemporary issues and current trends affecting the culinary arts industry.
Human Resources management
This unit requires developing a critical and creative approach to the analysis and application of human resource practices in Swiss hospitality organisations, by encouraging examination and questioning of traditions and the nature of perceived constraints and by expanding thought to broader social, political, and cultural contexts
Culinary Events
The module equips learners with management skills in terms of training, leadership, managing teams, being role models as well as following hygiene protocols and acknowledged behavioural regulations and implementation of the self-service operation. Moreover, they take responsibility to respect standards and quality of service with the Certificate, Diploma and Postgraduate students
Introduction to Marketing
This unit introduces learners to the concept of marketing, the marketing process and the importance of marketing to tourism and hospitality organisations.
Learners will explore the marketing principles of understanding the customer, ensuring that products and services meet with customer needs and how marketing can influence customer behaviour.
They will have the chance to research the marketing strategies of a variety of hospitality operations. They will investigate the basic principles of marketing through an understanding of marketing objectives, marketing mix, market segmentation and marketing communications. Learners will identify the constraints affect marketing for hospitality organisations.
Culinary Arts Concept Development - Theory
Students require to obtain the skills and knowledge needed for understanding gastronomic principles for enabling them to develop products, and services in the industry, while comprehending the need for costing & pricing of these products. In a gastronomical operations environment, it is an expectation from the industrial standards that new entrants can understand and elaborate about the techniques and quality management expertise that is expected beginning from a supervisory level role. Therefore, through this module, students shall receive the knowledge that is involved behind the effective operation of a culinary environment.
Culinary Arts Concept development - Practical
Besides creating menus and implementing yield management practices in a gastronomically operational environment, the industry has an expectation of being able to carry our service and production tasks not by just the chef, but also having the ability to delegate roles on a day-to-day basis for running an efficient and well driven kitchen. Therefore, through gaining an understanding of the modern culinary trends and methods, which will tie-in with the Culinary Arts Concept Development - Theory & Culinary Events modules, students will learn and gain an in-depth understanding of operating most effectively in a gastronomically operational environment.
German Language
This unit will provide an intensive set of grammar and vocabulary practices along with numerous tasks to enhance listening, reading, speaking and writing abilities. The main focus, however, will be put on speaking and writing (grammar, vocabulary). These skills are essentials for the industry students will be working in. In other words, the emphasis within this unit is on communication within the business environment in which students are likely to find themselves when on placement in industry in Switzerland. A good command of the German language is also very beneficial for students who wish to secure placements that have higher levels of face-to-face customer contact.
Diventare Hotel Manager
Scuola Italiana Turismo Academy
Florence, Italyospitalità con standard più alti (LQA), comunicazione, uso del Gestionale Opera, Best Practice Reparti Housekeeping e Room Divisione, Marketing, Sales, Revenue, Budget e Controllo di Gestione
Food & Beverage Management
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management
The Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is one of the most dynamic, vibrant, and exciting areas of service management. To thrive in this global, competitive landscape, those pursuing a successful career in F&B need to familiarise themselves with the key tenets of F&B management.
By undertaking this course, students will learn about the structure and characteristics of the food service industry, explore best practices and common issues in operational management, as well as get a comprehensive introduction to the types of technology used in F&B management. The course concludes by considering current challenges and emerging trends in contemporary F&B management, equipping you with the knowledge required to level-up your professional competence.
The participants are expected to watch all the video content under each module, acquaint oneself with additional materials provided, review the video podcast, and then take the quiz. The quiz can be taken 3 times and we recommend that participants watch the videos until they feel they master the topic.
English@Work: Advanced Interview Skills
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Hotel and Tourism Management
Once you have successfully grasped the foundation of interview success by completing our English@Work: Basic Job Interview Skills course, how you persuade others to believe that you are as good as you say you are is now the challenge. Our instructors have had a 100% success rate in getting interviews and landing a job, and we hope to share that experience with you.
• No more generic answers! Hear what senior management specifically looks for in challenging questions.
• Stop asking Google! Exchange ideas with a global community of learners.
• No more rehearsing in your head! Use the tools on the platform to practise, learn to assess answers and get inspiration from instructor feedback and other participants - Verified learners only.
English@Work: Cover Letters
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Hotel and Tourism Management
This course will help you create application letters that effectively complement a CV. This course covers the structure and content of Application Letters, advice from our industry professionals and front-line recruiters about what to include in Application Letters, and language input on verbs, parallel structures, and tone and style.
The content of this course complements the skills and strategies covered in English@Work: CVs.
If you have not completed that course, enroll and enjoy!