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Unit of Study HOTL5006 - Issues in Contemporary Hospitality (2020)

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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: Contemporary trends - globalisation, technology, environment

Topic 3: Emerging operational issues

Topic 5: The new customer

Topic 4: Crisis and risk: strategic approaches

Topic 6: Hospitality - resilience and sustainability

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Location Domestic International
Brisbane - The Hotel School
Session2,3
Session2,3
Melbourne - The Hotel School
Session2,3
Session2,3
Sydney - The Hotel School
Session2,3
Session2,3

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
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:

  1. synthesize theoretical approaches to contemporary hospitality
    • GA2:
  2. critically analyse contemporary issues affecting the hospitality sector and provide innovative solutions
    • GA2:
    • GA6:
  3. identify creative and strategic approaches to managing emerging crises and risks in hospitality organisations
    • GA2:
  4. develop a proactive and self-directed ability to predict and adapt to changing diverse and multinational hospitality environments
    • GA2:
    • GA7:

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