Hospitality management is a specialized field of management and leadership within the hospitality services industry. Hospitality services include everything from dining and general guest services to lodging, tourism, travel, sports, food services, entertainment and more. Your role is to help sell ex
Hospitality management is a specialized field of management and leadership within the hospitality services industry.
Hospitality services include everything from dining and general guest services to lodging, tourism, travel, sports, food services, entertainment and more. Your role is to help sell experiences and make customers feel welcome and connected to your business.
What You’ll Learn
Why study hospitality management? As a hospitality management major at Merrimack College, you’ll explore the diverse areas of the service industry through courses in marketing, tourism, hospitality, human resources, leadership, emotional intelligence, organizational behavior and more. Meeting new people, seeing new places, acting quickly on your feet and keeping clients happy are all essential elements of this career path.
The Girard School of Business hospitality management curriculum is business-focused, driven by the hospitality industry. You’ll graduate with an in-demand degree from Merrimack and be prepared to launch a career based on world-class excellence as a hospitality leader.
By concentrating in hospitality management, you will:
Strengthen your soft and hard skills in management, leadership, teamwork-building and emotional intelligence – key hospitality skills that are also transferable to other career paths.
Become a resilient hospitality leader by practicing positive leadership and learning from theory and practical application.
Explore trends in hospitality industry operations and related case studies and follow hospitality industry news and hospitality and tourism current events.
Develop relationships with talented Merrimack faculty who will share their own real-world experiences working within the hospitality industry.
Hospitality Industry Jobs
To be successful as a manager, you’ll need to develop a mixture of soft and hard skills. Soft skills are especially attractive to recruiters because they are essential to guest satisfaction.
Hard skills like business knowledge and attention to detail are also crucial for an organization’s success.
You will learn both of these skill types in the hospitality management program, and you will also learn how to interact with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
These valuable skills can be carried into roles in other industries as well. Leadership opportunities in the hospitality field exist in hotels, restaurants, resorts, casinos, cruise lines, ecotourism and clubs.
Career paths include opportunities in:
Lodging/Hotel Management
Sales and Marketing
Tourism
Ecotourism
Human Resources
Restaurant Management
Consulting – sharing hospitality best practices with other industries, such as healthcare, financial and retail
Meetings and Event Planning
One of the fastest-growing educational institutions in the country, Merrimack College is a selective, top-tier college in a beautiful, residential setting — just minutes from Boston, Massachusetts.
Driven by our Augustinian Catholic mission, Merrimack is where academic excellence meets a community filled with spirit and energy. Together, we believe in pushing boundaries, embracing innovation and making a difference within our communities.
Our academic experience bridges the gap between theory and the real-world for meaningful learning that prepares our students for personal and professional success.
Merrimack is where students and faculty come together creating a unique environment where ideas and collaborative endeavors are encouraged, meaningful connections are made and personal growth is a priority.
Why Merrimack?
Academic excellence prepares you for the career you want.
Outcomes that speak for themselves.
Scientific research with faculty.
Everything (and everyone) you need to succeed.
Faculty who truly care — about their subject and you.
Our I-love-it-here community.
Location, location, location.
More affordable than you may think.
A reputation that precedes us.
The Hospitality and Tourism program provides students with the knowledge they need about the various industry sectors such as restaurants/food services, hotels/resorts, special events/meeting planning, and other tourism businesses.
Completion of our bachelor's degree requires a minimum of 120 credit hours of course work and a minimum of 1,000 clock hours of work experience in the hospitality industry.
The Georgia State B.B.A. in Hospitality Administration program provides a well-integrated curriculum with a focus in general business and hospitality while incorporating courses on the arts and sciences that prepare students for management positions in the hospitality industry.
Our Hospitality and Event Management Program focuses on helping you develop critical thinking skills through experiential learning. Students take courses to learn about culinary arts and food service, lodging, event planning, nutrition, and business to build skills for a variety of professions.
The world of hospitality is a dynamic and energetic one. Your office door may open up to a bustling hotel lobby, a crowded cozy cafe or a sunny upper deck — welcome to your work environment!
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