Hospitality Management

The Hospitality Management program is a 2-year program that will help you foster skills and abilities required to work in the hospitality industry. Through labs and lectures, the NAIT Hospitality Management program will prepare you to hit the ground running with broad business knowledge and career-ready skills focused on the accommodations, food and beverage, event management, and tourism industries. They’ll also help you develop your supervisory skills and progress towards more complex management roles.

You’ll focus on service skills for food and beverage, catering and front-desk operations, in addition to foundational business courses. In your second year, you’ll examine marketing, financial management, supervisory skills and advanced courses in hotel, restaurant, and catering operations. Your prerequisite for entering the second year is a proven 400-hours of hospitality work experience.

Students are immersed in a combination of classroom teaching, industry-relevant case work, industry visits  and networking. You will develop an understanding of modern hospitality dynamics and learn to work well within culturally diverse organizations.

What You’ll Learn

• Operations management
• Front-desk supervisory procedures
• Food and beverage management
• Banquets and catering service
• Software and technology
• Hospitality legislation
• Tourism marketing
• Hospitality accounting
• Business communications
• Organizational behaviour