Bachelor of Science in Tourism Management

Purposive communication is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that   provide   them   opportunities  for  communicating  effectively  and   appropriately  to   a multicultural audience in local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize  the  importance  of  conveying  messages  responsibly.  The  knowledge,  skills,  and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and/or web-based output for various purposes.

Purposive communication is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that   provide   them   opportunities  for  communicating  effectively  and   appropriately  to   a multicultural audience in local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize  the  importance  of  conveying  messages  responsibly.  The  knowledge,  skills,  and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and/or web-based output for various purposes.

       This is a 3-unit course that focuses on the fundamental components and principles of accommodation operation, including skills and knowledge development on Front office management and Housekeeping. Over the course, students shall learn from the orientation of related context to properly create readiness for hotel operation. Students will also be trained on the routines and the details attached to the front office and housekeeping departments.

Students will have a broad understanding of environmental issues and their impact upon the tourism industry, therefore subject areas such as pollution, waste management and biodiversity will be a primary focus. Awareness and the understanding of the implications of tourism impacts, especially on Socio-cultural and environmental aspects are critical to properly guide sustainable tourism planning and development. The natural and cultural environments of communities and global destinations will be explored to enable students to critically interpret tourism inter-dependency, and the changes and development of domestic and international tourism policy. The course critically examines tourism planning as a process and as a set of techniques for sustainable tourism development. It focuses on the physical environment of tourism planning, and the social, cultural and political realities of planning and policy making.

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 busies.

This course is an introduction to the concepts, principles, problems, and practices of operations management. Emphasis is on managerial processes for effective operations in both goods-producing and service-rendering organization. Topics include operations strategy, process design, capacity planning, facilities location and design, forecasting, production scheduling, inventory control, quality assurance, and project management. The topics are integrated using a systems model of the operations of an organization.

Purposive communication is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and/or web-based output for various purposes.

This course presents a  comprehensive  survey of   the tourist destination in the world. Major discussions will be on international documentation, visa requirements, health and safety issues, geographical characteristics, access routes, major attractions, gastronomy and distinctive cultural attributes of major tourist destination countries, international organizations relating to tourism and their major functions. May include trip to an overseas destination. 

 This course is designed to give a clear and whole overview of Tourism and Hospitality as an ecosystem and goes beyond the usual used 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. It shows the structure and 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 goals of tourism and discusses, among others, how to develop protective environments for children in tourism destinations; to observe and perform risk mitigation 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 identifies common tools, technology and techniques used in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry.

This course will equip students with the necessary skills to develop actual marketing campaigns for a business within the tourism and hospitality industry.

This course aims to enable participants to recognize and assess quality management processes in a hospitality and tourism organization and to evaluate departmental processes and planning strategies.

This course will equip the students with a comprehensive knowledge on techniques and best practices in guiding and escorting travelers in their travels locally and abroad.

This course describe the skills, knowledge and performance outcomes required to explore and analyze the management and practices of lodging operations and related sales activities in the major operating and support departments. It will also expose the students on the unique aspect of managing a service – based lodging establishment delivered by diverse employees and understanding of the business and financial operations of the lodging firm. The course introduces the housekeeping department of a hotel and lodging organization: Its organizational structure; roles and responsibilities: function of the department; equipment and tools for housekeeping operations; methods and procedures of cleaning operations including linen, uniform and laundry service; general maintenance and decoration of a hotel, safety and sanitation in housekeeping operations and record keeping: precautionary procedures; guest safety and hotel assets. Laboratory includes actual exposure in the housekeeping operations.