Hospitality & Tourism Management at Olds College

What can you expect from the program?

Whether you decide to work abroad or remain close to home the skills you acquire in the Hospitality and Tourism Management program will prepare you with a solid management focused education allowing you to be employable in many businesses around the world.

This unique 15 month accelerated diploma program requires students to complete work experience components along with an applied management residency.

What will you learn?

Students will learn in the Pomeroy Inns & Suites, located on our campus. By leveraging our relationships with industry associations, professional organizations, and tourism operators, students will experience a diverse range of facilities and services focusing on real-life learning. From leisure, tourism, sporting events, and recreation operations, to mixology, culinary theory and everything in between, students will be immersed in applied, hands on learning. Students will learn to:

• Communicate with stakeholders to achieve personal and organizational objectives.
• Apply strategic leadership skills to achieve organization objectives.
• Analyze business information to make strategic decisions.
• Apply resource management skills to achieve organizational objectives.
• Apply critical thinking skills to achieve organizational objectives.
• Apply professional standards to achieve personal and organizational objectives.
• Apply ethical standards to achieve personal and organizational objectives.
• Apply the marketing process to achieve organizational objectives.
• Utilize business technologies to perform workplace duties.
• Apply project management principles to achieve organizational objectives

Your Future

Job opportunities include: special event management, food and beverage and travel counselling.