Hospitality Management Subject Guide

Click this link for more than twenty five videos on the hospitality and tourism industry from Films on Demand.

The hardest part about working in the hospitality field may simply be deciding on which of its many popular career paths to pursue! This video will help interested students make an informed choice by describing commercial and noncommercial hospitality establishments and key hospitality departments such as management, food and beverage, gaming and entertainment, customer service, security, housekeeping, maintenance, and more.

The United States has long been a “service nation” because Americans at every stage of life are willing to pay a premium for good service. In this program, members of the hospitality, human services, and tourism groups—a chef and a caterer, a massage therapist and a retirement home manager, and a hotel manager and an event planner—describe what their professions are like.

As the public face of the tourism and hospitality industries, front-of-house employees have the responsibility of providing the best possible service. This program interviews a number of people who work in the hospitality industry and deal frequently with the public.

In this program, professionals from Australia’s SKYCITY Darwin share the secrets of successfully running an international five-star hotel.

There are many reasons why the quality of restaurant and hotel service varies—but they generally boil down to one factor: teamwork. This program helps students who are aiming for the hospitality industry to understand why teamwork is vital to the success of an establishment, what its core principles are, and how it can be put into practice and strengthened.

Exploring an array of culinary skills, this video enables viewers to create dishes for a fully catered meal.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading." It began in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from: Technology, Entertainment, Design but has broadened to include all kinds of important topics, including Business.

Hospitality students can learn a lot from watching some of the industry's thought leaders deliver TED talks on what motivates, inspires, and drives them to succeed.