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Courseware

Airline Management

This course provides an overview of airline management decision processes with a focus on economic issues and their relationship to operations planning models and decision support tools. It emphasizes the application of economic models of demand, pricing, costs, and supply to airline markets and networks, and it examines industry practice and emerging methods for fleet planning, route network design, scheduling, pricing and revenue management.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Airlines -- Management
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

Basic Kitchen and Food Service Management

Food Service Management

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Food service Food service management
Resource Type:: e-book

Video

Chi-Square Tests

5 tips on Chi-Square Tests

Course related:: HTM3205 Analysing and Interpreting Research
Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Research -- Methodology Social sciences -- Statistical methods Statistics
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Commercial Food Preparation: Local Cuisine

emphasis on preparing delicacies using local produce and variation in preparing imported produce will equip hospitality workers with the skills, knowledge and competencies of how to prepare our local produce and other produce using our signature methods and techniques as well as cater to the pallet of people of different cultures.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Cooking Food service
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Cultural Heritage Tourism Event Planning and Management

Topics in Cultural Heritage Tourism Event Planning and Management explores the core principles of event planning and management as it specifically relates to cultural heritage tourism, demonstrating the principles through the case study of three existing cultural heritage festivals

Subjects:: Event and Convention and Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Heritage tourism
Resource Type:: Courseware

MOOC

Data Collection: Online, Telephone and Face-to-face

reviews a range of survey data collection methods that are both interview-based (face-to-face and telephone) and self-administered (paper questionnaires that are mailed and those that are implemented online, i.e. as web surveys).

Course related:: HTM3205 Analysing and Interpreting Research
Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Quantitative research Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology Qualitative research
Resource Type:: MOOC

Others

Ecotourism: Who Benefits?

The main objective of this case is to have students critically examine the costs and the benefits associated with ecotourism, a form of tourism usuallly involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Ecotourism
Resource Type:: Others

MOOC

Food & Beverage Management

focus on contemporary challenges that managers and entrepreneurs in food and beverage businesses should be able to face; and provide models and tools to design and implement appropriate courses of action to satisfy customers and build an advantage over the competition.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Food service management
Resource Type:: MOOC

Courseware

Food and Wine Pairing Tutorial

An interactive tutorial intended for individuals who want to overcome the intimidation factor associated with selecting a wine from an endless wine list in a fine restaurant.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Food wine pairing Wine wine making Wine tasting
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Food as medicine

Videos and related materials for the Strauss-Wisneski Indigenous and Integrative Medicine Lectures.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage and Food Science
Keywords:: Diet Nutrition Health
Resource Type:: Video

MOOC

Hotel Management: Distribution, Revenue and Demand Management Specialization

covers the basics of hotel demand management, distribution, and revenue management. participants will learn how e-commerce intermediaries such as online travel agencies are impacting the already-complex hospitality sector, and explore tools and techniques that will help you effectively market hospitality services and maximize business revenue in this new global industry landscape.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotel management Hospitality industry -- Management
Resource Type:: MOOC

e-book

Human Resources in the Food Service and Hospitality Industry

Human Resources

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Food service -- Personnel management Hospitality industry -- Personnel management Hotels -- Personnel management
Resource Type:: e-book

Video

ISO14001

A recorded seminar related to ISO14001

Course related:: HTM4312 Environmental Management in the Hospitality Industry
Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: ISO 14000 Series Stards Industrial management -- Environmental aspects
Resource Type:: Video

MOOC

Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism Industry

for individuals who are desirous of discovering the career opportunities and adventures available to and experienced by the Hospitality/Tourism industry professional person.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Hospitality industry
Resource Type:: MOOC

e-journal

Lodging Magazine

The online version of the official publication of the almost 100-year-old American Hotel and Lodging Association (AH&LA), Lodging provides readers with hospitality related industry news, financial trends, and legislative information.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Motel management Hotel management
Resource Type:: e-journal

Others

Lonely Planet

Whether you’re interested in traveling to a new city, going on a cruise, or cooking a new dish — we’re committed to inspiring you to experience travel in a whole new way. Lonely Planet’s collection of 825+ travel and guidebooks is sure to inspire the traveler within.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Travel
Resource Type:: Others

Others

Ocean Park Academy Hong Kong

Ocean Park Academy Hong Kong (OPAHK) was founded in 2004 to deliver education programmes in the diversified environment of Ocean Park. We aspire to become the ideal destination for life-wide learning where students of different ages can learn about nature and conservation in an enjoyable atmosphere.