College of Hospitality Management

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN HOTEL AND RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT

The Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management combined the advanced practical skills, significant hands on, managerial abilities, substantive hotel and restaurant operations courses and an international practicum. Students takes their practicum in Australia and in selected Asian Countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and key cities in Virginia, Florida, North and South Carolina in the United States.

The HRM department is a teaching learning community of hoteliers that academically and professionally prepares a diverse student to excel in dynamic global environment, thus producing:

• Successfully hospitality service management careers.
• Competent professional who are dedicated to the community service, research oriented, and equipped with the new information technology and emerging knowledge and skills that meet international standards of excellence while continually in quest of personal and professional growth.

HRM department envisioned to be recognized as a premier hospitality services management school in the region which is committed to quality education that ensures the total development of its graduates who are imbued with the values immersed in his cultural heritage, active participants in sustaining the Filipino nation, empowered to lead in the promotion of nationalism and internationalism, leaders in the in their chosen professions and valuable members of the global workforce.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN TOURISM

Tourism is the world's largest industry, generating in 2003 over USD 514 Billion in receipts from 697 million tourists and employing hundreds of million people worldwide. Almost 760 million travelled across borders in 2004, several times more travelled domestically. The probability of one being able to visit foreign lands in his lifetime has never been higher.

The tourism industry is a vast system consisting of several sectors with airlines, hotels, resorts, travel agencies and tour operators constituting the great bulk. The myriad of smaller entities that thrive and wane with tourism's upswings and downturns include souvenir shops, restaurants, bars and the like. The industry also goes beyond its business realm; it covers government and non-government organizations as well as educational institutions.

Tourism generates both positive and negative impacts on the culture, economy, and environment of generating and receiving countries. It can uplift country's living standards, instil greater pride in one's identify and make people more aware of their cultural and natural heritage. On the other hand, it can also corrupt values and traditions and degrade the environment (CMO 30, 2006)