Objectives

To develop students through combining management theory with practical experience and encouraging positive attitude for their future.
To develop educational programme that is appropriate for the needs of all stakeholders nationally and internationally.
Improve instructors’ and lecturers’ skills to enable them to enhance their teaching efficiency and effectiveness.
Supply students with a people oriented attitude through furnishing them with strong communication skills, customer service and professionalism.

To be one of the top ranking educational tourism departments.
Improve the learning- teaching system by effectively using modern teaching technology.
To be one of the major sources of employment in the tourism and hospitality industry.

To produce world class human resource, to cater to the overwhelming need of the Tourism and Hospitality Industry.
Add an international approach to teaching through collaboration with other departments worldwide.
Enhance the educational quality using multimedia appropriate to the needs of staff and students.

1. Program Title

2. Intended Learning Outcomes

Recognize the hospitality and Tourism management principles and related disciplines and terminology with an appreciation of their limitations.
Describe the uses and limitations of a range of research methods/techniques, both qualitative and quantitative, and identify their strengths and weaknesses for providing information and evaluating options in an uncertain organizational environment.
Define tourism from the perspective of customers and stakeholders, service and orientation.

Relate hospitality and tourism concepts from a practical approach, through:

A pedagogic kitchen and restaurant, hotel room facilities, front-office and Travel Agency Counter.
Participate in the organization of international conferences under the supervision of their professors.
Other audio-visual facilities are utilized, such as Video-films taken from The Educational Institute of American Hotel and Motel Association and Videotel.
Focus on improving foreign language skills through teaching 8 courses of 2 foreign languages Video-showing and language labs. The medium of instruction in Hotels and Tourism study program is mainly English.
Relate all studied courses learnt during the eight semesters through demonstrating Internships and term papers as major part of students' assignments during the 4-year program.

Demonstrate different managing information technology and technology tools needed for hospitality or tourism specialization:

The latest technological practice at its highest levels, our computer labs are equipped with special Tourism and Hospitality software packages.
Achieve the ICDL (International Computer Driving License) Certificate as an integral part of the program.

Ability to use fundamental knowledge to investigate new and emerging technologies related to hospitality and tourism specialized software.
Examine the ability and creativity in conducting independent assignments and writing a dissertation.
Apply analytical and critical thinking and synthesis of understanding in the fields of tourism and hospitality.
Analyze statements in terms of evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, define terms adequately and generalize appropriately.

Identify uses, strategies and management of finance in the hospitality and tourism enterprises.
Demonstrate critical thinking through an ability to evaluate, analyze and synthesize issues related to hospitality and tourism.
Manage their own learning.
plan tourism programmes , tour and brochures for tourism and hotel services, pricing hotels and tourism products , assess promotional and advertising tools.
Manage effective performance within a group.

Communicate effectively , both orally and in writing using a range of media.
Manage tasks and resources, acquire entrepreneurial skills.
The ability to develop, monitor and update a plan to adapt to a changing operating environment and work in stressful environment and within constraints.
Ability to monitor and adjust a personal program of work on an on-going basis, and top learn independently.
Distinguish different roles within a team, and the ability to exercise leadership and motivate individuals.

Hotel & Tourism