Employability and Skills Handbook for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Students

Name: Employability and Skills Handbook for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Students
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SKU: 9781138493940
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By Miriam Firth

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Employability and Skills Handbook for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Students equips learners with essential skills and knowledge vital for thriving in the tourism, hospitality, and events sectors. Through reflective and critical analysis, it supports personal, academic, and professional growth while addressing employer expectations. Featuring think points, activities, and case studies, it offers practical insights from both graduate and employer perspectives.
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This handbook is ideal for students studying tourism, hospitality, or events management seeking to enhance their employability and understand industry demands.

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.

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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 does it delve into how to develop skills, attributes and prospects for employment in these competitive industries, but it also focuses on what employers in the tourism, hospitality and events sectors require from graduate employees. Highly illustrated, the chapters contain think points and activities, with case studies 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, Employability and Skills Handbook for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Students is a must-read for all students studying these fields.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138493940

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 January 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 70 Tables, black and white; 40 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Halftones, black and white; 65 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 414

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About the Author

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.

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