Cavite State University - Open Distance eLearning

This course examines the principles of conceptualizing, planning, managing and evaluating meetings, and events and festivals management. Topics include the significance of conventions and events in Tourism, event design, project management, methods and evaluation, physical requirements, organizing, promotion and sponsorship. This is an integration course that applies all the foundation of tourism and hospitality courses.

This course describes the skills, knowledge, and performance outcomes required to develop the ability of students to become professionals in their field by understanding the ideas of improving one’s personality and ways on how they are going to be valued in the business industry by means of presenting their ideas like company meetings, professional networking, interviews and through proposals of services considering the proper collaboration to their associates and portraying professional business ethics. It also teaches writing skills and emphasizes in verbal communication and preparation of plans that require them to research career options and company potentiality and stability to develop a strong and effective career pathway.

This course designed to provide students with a broad foundation in hospitality, sustainability, leadership and management, operations, marketing and information technology. The major provides students with local, regional and global perspectives on current and pressing sustainability issues and problems within the hospitality industry. The central core of the program focuses on the concept of “sustainability plus”, going beyond sustainability to address issues in terms of the five-dimension lens of people, ethics, equity, planet and profit. Students can focus in sustainable hotel, resort and event management or sustainable ecotourism management. Students gain hands-on knowledge and skill needed to pursue careers in hospitality, including hotels, restaurants, resorts, festivals and events, ecotourism, attractions, and eco-recreation with a focus on “green” jobs in business industry.

This course is designed to give a clear and whole overview of Tourism and Hospitality as an ecosystem and goes beyond the usual closed - concept of tourism. It introduces the concepts and terms that are common throughout the different sectors. It also intends to develop, update and maintain local knowledge as well as tourism industry knowledge . It shows the structure and the scope of tourism as well as the impact of Tourism as an industry in relation to the world economy and society. It also illustrates the effects of the convergence of tourism with the other local industries and let the students appreciate its multiplier effect in various fronts. It discusses the major factors that influence the history and future of tourism in the world and in the Philippines. It also introduces the sustainable goal of tourism and discusses, among others, how to develop protective environments for children in tourism destination, to observe and perform risk management activities, etc. The students will also learn to appreciate the key global organizations and the roles they play in influencing and monitoring tourism trends.

This course describe the skills, knowledge and performance outcomes required to develop the ability to become professionals in their field by understanding the ideas of improving one’s personality and ways on how they are going to be valued in the business industry by mean s of presenting their ideas like company meetings, professional networking, interviews and through proposals of services considering the proper collaboration of their associates and portraying professional business ethics. It also teaches writing skills and emphasize in verbal communication and preparation of plans that requires to them research career options and company potentially and stability to develop a strong and effective career pathway.