The Hospitality Experience

Course aim

The course aims to engage students to think analytically and creatively in relation to the hospitality experience in social, cultural and commercial contexts.

Course content

Hospitality: socio-cultural and management perspectives, history and continuities in the hospitality encounter, gender issues underpinning host-guest relations, the commercial dimension of hospitality, global and local hospitality perspectives, workshop on Ingenium creativity tool – creative idea generation of hospitality concepts, phenomenology of the hospitality work experience, hospitality industry career opportunities, cross-cultural dimensions of host-guest relations and outlook for the future of the hospitality encounter.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Preparatory	1 x 1 week
Lecture	2 hours x 10 weeks
Lecture (Virtual)	2 hours x 10 weeks
Tutorial	1 hour x 10 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External	3 hours x 10 weeks
INTERNAL, CITY WEST (INTENSIVE)
Seminar	30 hours x N/A
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Offshore	3 hours x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Case study, Project

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4C)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.