Hospitality Brand Design
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management
Great branding matters whether you are a start-up or a legacy business. Creating successful brands follows a process that is part art and part science. Learn the value of branding and how it is researched, shaped and executed at successful hospitality brands around the world. The process of branding is a collaborative, multi-faceted process led by a team of right-brain (creatives) and left-brain (pragmatists) thinkers.
This course is highly valuable to a number of audiences: advanced university students of marketing and brand management, middle and senior managers in the hospitality and service sector aiming to create or strengthen the company brand, and for parties dealing with increasing long-term company value through strategic brand design.
You will learn how to move through the research and strategy phases through the creative process to arrive at a brand that is distinctive and desirable. This course helps you understand the process and deliverables, then offers templates and exercises for you to build your own hospitality brand. The participants are expected to watch all the video content under each module, acquaint themselves with additional materials provided, and then take the quizzes. The quiz can be taken 3 times and we recommend that participants watch the videos and practise until they feel they master the topic.
Effective Leadership in Modern Hospitality
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management
The Hospitality Industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes food & beverage service, event planning, theme parks, travel and tourism, hotels, etc. The industry uses a diverse workforce, which includes a variety of positions that may or may not have a strong educational component. Understanding this diversity and human behavior in hospitality is vital not only with the employees but also with the changing customer behavior. In this course, the participant will learn to develop organizational culture, employee experience, customer experience, and leadership. The participant will also learn to understand how change management can improve the company. The participant will be introduced to the contexts of the Experience Economy, psychological capital, DiSC® personality theory, and ADKAR change
James Suckling teaches Wine Appreciation
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Called one of the “world’s most powerful wine critics,” James Suckling has tasted more than 200,000 wines over the past 40 years. In his wine tasting MasterClass, James tours legendary Tuscan vineyards and teaches you to explore the stories, history, and people behind every bottle. Deepen your knowledge of the properties in each sip, cultivate your passion, and choose, order, and pair wines with confidence.
Artificial Intelligence in Modern Business
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management
Why now is the time to get interested in Artificial Intelligence?
You have probably stumbled into the term ‘artificial intelligence’ and heard some troubling discussion about how robots might be taking all of our jobs in the near term future. The amount of human work is hardly going anywhere, but the skills and knowledge needed in the majority of jobs will drastically change.
In five years’ time, you might wish that you had started working with AI five years ago
AI technology—and its applications in business—is in many ways one of the most important innovations of our time. That’s why it’s crucial to be aware of all the opportunities and challenges AI will generate in the modern business world—even if you’re not starting your own AI project yet.
This is how AI can help you perform better in your industry:
Applications of AI are surprisingly common:
Your company can automate a lot of boring and repetitive tasks with AI and robotic process automation and can target the workload of your workers to more productive tasks.
Your company’s efficiency increases and you will get more done with less effort when routine tasks are completed by AI.
Your company’s management team is able to make better decisions because you are getting information faster and more accurately for decision-making.
You can stand out from your competitors with new and better products because you will get more information from customers and product users for developing your services.
Customers will stay happy because you are able to offer them more personalized service in multiple points in the buying process.
You will be able to acquire more customers, for example with the use of lead generation chatbots.
If the benefits above would help your business, you will like this new AI basic online training course.
Essentials of Hospitality and Tourism
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management
One out of 10 employees globally is found in hospitality and tourism. Will you be one of them?
This is an introductory set of courses to the vast field of hospitality and tourism. This set of 5 high-quality courses takes the participant to a new level in understanding the business logic and working structure of hospitality and tourism, as a people business, experience business, and a business area developing fast during the years to come.
This course package aims to develop a wide perspective on modern hospitality and tourism as a multi-form industry and the issues affecting it. Lessons included will explain the central concepts and definitions used in the respective business areas. Course overview
This course package gives you an extensive overview of the multitude of modern hospitality and tourism business. We offer you five independent courses on key topics of the industry.
The course package enables you access to the five following courses:
1. Travel & Tourism Business
2. Accommodation Business
3. Food & Beverage Management
4. Culinary Management
5. Accounting and Managing Numbers
+ a free bonus e-book glossary: ‘The language of Hospitality & Tourism’ to help you to get started with the terminology.
Accommodation Business
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management
In this course, the participant will review the accommodation business environment, its structure and various business models and concepts. The participant will be introduced to the rooms division department, career paths, and job descriptions in hotels. The participant will learn about the mindset and characteristics of the modern guest, and how to provide a tailored and responsible guest experience.
The participants are expected to watch all the video content under each module, acquaint themselves with additional materials provided, and then take the quizzes. Each quiz can be taken 3 times and we recommend that participants watch the videos and practise until they feel they mastered the topic.