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MOOC

World of Wine: From Grape to Glass

Learn about the principles and practices of how grapes are grown and wine is made.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Vineyards Wine wine making
Resource Type:: MOOC

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Wine Tasting: Sensory Techniques for Wine Analysis

Discuss the often perplexing question of how to pair wine with food, and the physical, structural, textural, and aromatic aspects of both the "wine side" and the "food side" of the equation

Keywords:: Wine wine making Wine tasting
Resource Type:: MOOC

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The fundamentals of hotel distribution

In today’s hotel sector an increasingly complex network of traditional and web based channels have to be managed to insure hotel success. Key questions include: how should you distribute over the web? What should you include on your brand.com website so people book through it? How can you maximise the potential of online travel agents (OTAs)? With the distribution environment both highly complex and constantly evolving, this course will give you comprehensive foundation of current industry practices to help jump start your career in this fascinating domain.

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

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The World History of Modern Wine

explore key themes in wine history and learn about the methods and resources that historians use to understand the past.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Wine wine making Wine industry
Resource Type:: MOOC

MOOC

The Science of Gastronomy

introduces a number of basic scientific principles underpinning the methodology of cooking, food preparation and the enjoyment of food.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage and Food Science
Keywords:: Cooking
Resource Type:: MOOC

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Sustainable Tourism: Rethinking the future

Gain the skills and knowledge to rethink current tourism developments and reimagine practices to build alternatives futures.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Sustainable tourism
Resource Type:: MOOC

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Sustainable Tourism – promoting environmental public health

The MOOC introduces learners to key environmental health and natural resources management challenges associated with the rapid growth in international tourist arrivals into low-income countries.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Sustainable tourism
Resource Type:: MOOC

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Survey Data Collection and Analytics Specialization

basics of questionnaire design, data collection methods, sampling design, dealing with missing values, making estimates, combining data from different sources, and the analysis of survey data.