ABSTRACT

This handbook provides students with an essential understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to work in the tourism, hospitality and events industries. It offers reflective, reflexive and critical analysis on personal, academic and professional development.

Not only looking at how to develop the skills, attributes and prospects for employment in these competitive industries, this handbook also focuses on what the employers in tourism, hospitality and events sectors require of graduate employees. Highly illustrated, the chapters contain think points and activities, and case studies are integrated throughout offering first hand advice from both employer and graduate perspectives.

The first book to focus on skills and employability in tourism, hospitality and events, this is a must read for all students studying these fields.

part 1|94 pages

Employability skills for tourism, hospitality and events management

chapter Chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction to the textbook

chapter Chapter 2|31 pages

Sector overviews

chapter Chapter 3|22 pages

Graduate employment

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

Skills for tourism, hospitality and events employment

chapter Chapter 5|6 pages

Text structure

part 2|108 pages

Personal development

chapter Chapter 7|19 pages

Self-awareness

chapter Chapter 8|33 pages

Relationship skills

chapter Chapter 9|13 pages

Time management

chapter Chapter 10|12 pages

Learning styles

chapter Chapter 11|18 pages

Effective communication

part 3|120 pages

Academic development strategies

chapter Chapter 12|22 pages

Goals and targets

chapter Chapter 13|21 pages

Finding academic articles

chapter Chapter 14|16 pages

Reading academic texts

chapter Chapter 15|22 pages

Academic writing

chapter Chapter 16|11 pages

Secondary and primary sources

chapter Chapter 17|13 pages

Motivating yourself

chapter Chapter 18|13 pages

Group work and alternative assessments

part 4|75 pages

Professional development

chapter Chapter 19|23 pages

Leadership styles

Evidencing reflective and reflexive thinking, learning and doing

chapter Chapter 20|24 pages

Networking

chapter Chapter 21|15 pages

Coaching and mentoring

chapter Chapter 22|10 pages

Forms of employment experience

chapter Chapter 23|1 pages

Career mapping