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Employability and Skills Handbook for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Students

Autor Miriam Firth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 ian 2020
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138493971
ISBN-10: 113849397X
Pagini: 444
Ilustrații: 70 Tables, black and white; 40 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Halftones, black and white; 65 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Further/Vocational Education and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Part One: Employability skills for tourism, hospitality and events management  1. Introduction to the textbook  2. Sector overviews  3. Graduate employment  4. Skills for tourism, hospitality and events employment  5. Text structure  Part Two: Personal development  6. Personal development in tourism, hospitality and Events  7. Self-awareness  8. Relationship skills  9. Time management  10. Learning styles  11. Effective communication  Part Three: Academic development strategies  12. Goals and targets  13. Finding academic articles  14. Reading academic texts  15. Academic writing  16. Secondary and primary sources  17. Motivating yourself  18. Group work and alternative assessments  Part Four: Professional development  19. Leadership styles: evidencing reflective and reflexive thinking, learning and doing  20. Networking  21. Coaching and mentoring  22. Forms of employment experience  23. Career mapping

Notă biografică

Dr Miriam Firth has worked, researched and taught in tourism, hospitality and events management programmes for over 15 years. Building upon a career in hotel, restaurant and festival management she specialises in supporting the employability of students, and professional development for management in these sectors. From working, and the continued research, in these industries, her publications are informed from both published research and active experience in the contexts into which students will graduate. She is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester (ranked 27th in the world in 2019), Programme Director of BA (hons) Management, Leadership and Leisure, and Director of Teaching and Learning Strategy.

Recenzii

'With over two decades' experience both working in and researching the tourism, hospitality and events industries, the author is pre-eminently qualified to produce this handbook. There are many other human resources and employment texts in the marketplace, but this carves itself a niche for its practical utility for students. Designed primarily as a companion to student learning, a secondary audience could well be leaders in the industry, inquisitive about the competencies and skills their new hires should possess.'
Dr Richard Robinson, Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland, Australia
'This text is unique in that it offers students from a wide range of tourism, hospitality, events and related disciplines an excellent insight into the academic and professional development that is required to underpin their education and for their lifelong learning. The text provides an excellent foundation for researchers in the critical area of professional development. I recommend this book to students, academics and management in the sector as an important, new and contemporary text.'
Dr Susan Horner, Associate Professor, Plymouth University, UK
'This is a much needed and valuable resource for both students and teachers of hospitality, tourism and events courses. Employability and work skills are essential for the future workforce and will ensure relevance for both the industry and the educational institutions that serve it.'
Professor Nigel Hemmington, Pro Vice Chancellor Research Enterprise and International, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
'This textbook is an essential read for any student studying tourism, hospitality and events management. It offers useful, detailed and important chapters on academic and professional development, and will help any undergraduate preparing to study and work in these vibrant and diverse industries.'
Emma Abson, Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
'This is a welcome addition to the academic texts in the area of tourism, hospitality and events management. It is refreshing, topical and highly relevant to see a text that is aimed directly at students and also which guides and supports them in developing the necessary skills and attributes to work in today’s highly challenging and competitive tourism industry. Firth provides excellent insights into the demands of working within the industry, current trends and challenges, and a huge awareness of the skills and personal attributes graduates need. The text is well structured with clear LOs for each chapter and engaging activities, case studies and think points to guide the reader. The text is also extremely insightful and supportive for academics within universities who are working with employee engagement, work placements and developing student employability skills. If only a text like this had been available whilst I was studying and to guide me as a graduate in the field of tourism!'
Dr Jane Ali-Knight, Professor in Festival and Event Management, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Descriere

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.