Hospitality & Tourism Management

Think you'd like hiring the bands for a summer concert series in the park? How about managing a casino at the Oregon Coast, or working behind the front desk of a small hotel in Paris? With a career in Hospitality and Tourism Management, your attention to detail and love of organization could land you in a large resort, overseeing convention arrangements for 1,000 people, or helping the bride and groom plan an intimate garden wedding. In the booming tourism industry, each day brings new adventures and new people into your life, people from all around the world.

Imagine the world at your doorstep. Chemeketa can take you there.

The Career

Hospitality and Tourism Management is an exciting and diverse industry with an increasing number of opportunities. You can work at tourist attractions, hotels, restaurants, parks or tourist bureaus, here, in the U.S., or you can aim your dreams as far away as your imagination can take you. Hospitality and Tourism Management is one of Oregon's primary industries because of the state's number and variety of outdoor activities and scenic areas. Choosing a career in this rapidly growing field doesn't limit you to Oregon, however, or even the Pacific Northwest, as travel and tourism is the nation's second largest industry.

The tourism industry includes more than 15 interrelated businesses, from lodging establishments, airlines and restaurants to cruise lines, car rental firms, travel agents and tour operators. Directly or indirectly, tourism employs one in every seven Americans.

As an example, the restaurant industry employs 11.6 million people, making it the nation's largest private sector employer. This industry provides work for almost nine percent of those employed in the U.S. and is a ladder to management opportunities. By 2010, restaurant industry employment is expected to reach 13 million.

The Program

The mission of the HTM Program is to meet the educational needs of students and offer relevant training for the current workforce to meet the growing demands of the world’s largest industry — hospitality and tourism.

The HTM department offers the following degree and certificate programs:

• Hospitality Management — Associate of Applied Science degree and One-Year Certificate. Prepares students for successful hospitality management careers. Available online.



• Tourism & Travel Management — Associate of Applied Science degree and One-Year Certificate. Prepares students for successful destination and tourism management careers. Available online.



• Hotel, Restaurant, & Resort Management —Transfer degree to Southern Oregon University.



• Hospitality Business Management — Transfer degree to Washington State University.



• Nutrition and Food Management — Transfer degree to Oregon State University.

Degree and certificate programs place an emphasis on Internship through our Cooperative Work Experience program. Students are placed in paid and non-paid internships matching their career goals and interests. The internship is designed to give students valuable on-the-job training and aid in advancement in their career.

Graduates of the program enter the hospitality and tourism industry working in such areas as convention and visitors' bureaus, travel and hotel sales and marketing, restaurant or institutional food service management, catering and banquet coordination, and state or national park management, among many other entry-level management options.

Hospitality and tourism is the second-largest industry in Oregon and the largest in the world. The employment outlook for the industry is excellent. There's strong demand for managers with a formal education in hospitality and tourism management. Chemeketa's Hospitality and Tourism Management program can prepare you for direct entry into the industry. The program also provides continuing education for industry professionals. Read on to find out more about Chemeketa's Hospitality and Tourism Management program.

Getting Started

If you haven't been to Chemeketa recently, your first step should be a visit to the college. While there you can talk to an advisor and learn what the college can do to help you reach your goal. You can arrange a time to take the college's free placement tests, which will help determine whether or not you need to take some basic skills classes in mathematics, reading or writing before enrolling in the program.

Through Chemeketa's Credit for Prior Learning program, you may be able to earn credit for learning acquired through job, community or volunteer service, non-credit classes or individual study.

You will find additional detailed information about a career in Hospitality and Tourism Management at our web site: www.hsm.org.

If you have further questions, please contact:

Nancy Duncan — 503.399.5296, nduncan@chemeketa.edu

Updated October 2006 by the College Advancement Department.