Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Brisbane - The Hotel School | ||
| Melbourne - The Hotel School | ||
| Sydney - The Hotel School |
Unit description
Provides a comprehensive understanding of the various emerging contemporary trends and issues that are reshaping the hospitality sector. The unit equips students with skills to apply theory and concepts to identify, analyse and provide innovative solutions to adapt to the constantly evolving hospitality environment.
Unit content
Topic 1: Hospitality: a modern synthesis
Topic 2: The contextual environment: impacts on hospitality businesses
Topic 3: The transactional business environment
Topic 5: The contemporary customer
Topic 4: Opportunities in the contemporary world
Topic 6: Analysis and insights
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | synthesize theoretical approaches to contemporary hospitality |
| 2 | critically analyse contemporary issues affecting the hospitality sector and provide innovative solutions |
| 3 | identify creative and strategic approaches to managing emerging crises and risks in hospitality organisations |
| 4 | develop a proactive and self-directed ability to predict and adapt to changing diverse and multinational hospitality environments |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- synthesize theoretical approaches to contemporary hospitality
- critically analyse contemporary issues affecting the hospitality sector and provide innovative solutions
- identify creative and strategic approaches to managing emerging crises and risks in hospitality organisations
- develop a proactive and self-directed ability to predict and adapt to changing diverse and multinational hospitality environments
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Annotated bibliography | 30% |
| Conference proposal | 30% |
| Presentation | 40% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Annotated bibliography | 30% |
| Conference proposal | 30% |
| Presentation | 40% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Annotated bibliography | 30% |
| Conference proposal | 30% |
| Presentation | 40% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.
Fee paying courses
For postgraduate or undergraduate full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.