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  Education programmes for Hotel Management and F&B Management Diplomas in Antalya International College of Tourism, designed by the Educational Institute of American Hotel and Lodging Association, correspond to international standards and are carried out in terms of “Antalya Academy of Tourism” project. Qualification obtained by the College graduates does not require proof in all countries of the world.
The aim of the education programmes include, first of all, raising highly qualified staff possessing both necessary knowledge and skills, and such qualities as sociability, flexibility, an ability to set and achieve goals.
Education is carried out in a modular system accepted in all European countries. Programme presupposes studying a number of modules; assessment takes place upon the completion of every module.
   
  HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME
   
  FIRST YEAR

#100 The Lodging and Food Service Industry

This course is essential for new industry employees and for those who don’t have broad-based industry experience. This course helps you understand the hospitality industry as a whole and see how all departments work together. Both lodging and food service are explored. Perspectives from leading hospitality professionals into the issues and challenges facing the hospitality industry today add an important dimension to this course. You’ll also learn about the many career opportunities available in the industry.

#241 Management of Food and Beverage Operations

Get the foundation you need to make smart decisions in food and beverage operations. This course shows how to give guests the highest priority as all details of the food and beverage operation are planned, implemented, and evaluated. You’ll learn how to build business through effective marketing strategies, how to satisfy the food-quality and nutritional demands of guests, and how to increase profits by maximizing service, productivity, and technology.

#245 Food Safety: Managing with the HACCP System
This module presents the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) method of food safety in a systematic, understandable format ideal for both staff training and classroom teaching. Clearly defined terms, detailed lists of food safety responsibilities, and checklists for all control points show you how to apply the concepts in the textbook to an actual food service operation.

#338 Managing Housekeeping Operations
No property can be profitable without clean rooms and efficient housekeeping operations. Learn what it takes to manage this important department. This course provides a thorough overview, from the big picture of hiring and retaining a quality staff, planning, and organizing, to the technical details for cleaning each area of the hotel. Practical information from industry experts makes the contents of this course immediately applicable to your job situation.

#333 Managing Front Office Operations
Increase front office efficiency and help sales grow with the knowledge and skills gained from this course. Topics include revenue management and the latest technology applications. This course shows how front office activities and functions affect other departments and focuses on how to manage the front office to ensure your property’s goals are met. Case studies and real-world examples present a practical industry focus.

#468 Managing Technology in the Hospitality Industry
Today’s hospitality operations rely increasingly on computer technology. This course provides a solid grounding in hospitality technology and the management of information systems. Content includes applications for all functional areas, including reservations, rooms, food and beverage, sales and event management, and accounting. You’ll learn the basics of purchasing, implementing, maintaining, and managing today’s information systems. This course also explores systems security and maintenance, e-commerce, and hospitality careers in information technology.

#270 Marketing in the Hospitality Industry
This course takes a practical perspective in introducing you to the marketing of hotel, restaurants, and clubs. Topics include market segmentation, marketing research, sales, advertising, public relations, promotions, packaging, pricing strategies, revenue maximization, and travel purchasing systems. Tips, checklists, industry forms, do’s and don’ts, and useful ideas from industry practitioners offer practical tools you can implement on the job.

Business Computing

This module provides students with a basic understanding of the use of Information Technology in a business context through some common applications.

Additional modules for Food and Beverage Diploma:

#346 Managing Beverage Operations, Second Edition
This course (formerly titled Managing Beverage Service) focuses on the successful elements of a beverage operation, based on research to identify those that are thriving.

#445 Purchasing for Food Service Operations
This course teaches the latest thinking in purchasing, guided by a review committee of food purchasing professionals from restaurants, hotels, and on-site/managed services organizations. The book focuses on value-added purchasing strategies and techniques that go beyond a basic product specification approach. Readers will learn how the purchasing control point is a vital element in the food distribution chain from the source and manufacturers to the guest at the table. It covers the latest in e-purchasing, addresses trends in purchasing and product, and features vital information on security, food safety, and ethics from both the distributor’s and operator’s perspectives.

SECOND YEAR

#357 Managing Hospitality Human Resources
Hospitality is a people industry, and this textbook shows how to manage the important human resources who provide services within a hospitality operation. You'll learn how to fulfill the requirements of U.S. employment and workplace laws, and discover the latest strategies for attracting employees, minimizing turnover, and maximizing productivity.

#250 Supervision in the Hospitality Industry
This course teaches the skills that can help you develop effective supervision and management skills that are essential to success in the industry. Topics include how to recruit, select, and train; increase productivity; control labor costs; communicate effectively; manage conflict and change; and use time management techniques. Resources on creating a professional development plan for your hospitality career can help you set the direction for future educational and professional endeavors.

#428 International Hotels: Development and Management
Learn about the global hospitality industry from both a development and management perspective. You’ll explore current trends; international policies affecting travel, tourism, and hospitality development; consumer demographics; and developments that have changed the context of global hotel operations

#281 Hospitality Facilities Management and Design
Learn how to handle today’s engineering and maintenance concerns. This course covers all major facility systems, including food service equipment and design. Non-engineers can learn how to understand and speak the language of suppliers and maintenance/engineering staff. You’ll also learn techniques to reduce expenses and increase efficiency, and learn how the latest technology can streamline operations.

#260 Hospitality Industry Financial Accounting
This course is a comprehensive introduction to hospitality accounting. You’ll learn about the responsibilities of a hotel’s accounting department, advantages and drawbacks of various types of statements and reports, the role of inventory in calculating profit, and more. You do not need any prior accounting experience to take this course.

Additional modules for Food and Beverage Diploma:

#464 Planning and Control for Food and Beverage Operations
Learn the most up-to-date control processes used to reduce costs in food and beverage operations worldwide. This revised edition includes new information on multi-unit management, an increased focus on technology applications as they apply to the subject matter, and fewer references to manual operations. New web site exhibits make this a cutting-edge resource for food and beverage professionals.

#354 Training and Development for the Hospitality Industry
Training is the key to keeping pace with the industry’s changing demands. Learn how to develop, conduct, and evaluate one-on-one and group training that will reduce turnover, improve job performance, and help your organization attain its goals. You’ll discover why training is an important investment for your property, how to train various levels of employees, and how to implement effective instructional design techniques and processes.

TOURISM MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME

FIRST YEAR

Travel Geography
The aim of this module is to provide students with a holistic understanding of travel geography from both local and international perspectives. This module reflects on the locations of travel destinations and their tourism resources. The geographical features and appeal of tourism destinations will also be investigated. Students will be expected to identify the patterns of international tourism and the inter-dependence of travel destinations.

Tourism Industry
The aim of this module is to provide students with an understanding of the nature of tourism and tourism products from both local and international perspectives. It will ensure students acquire a holistic understanding of the travel and tourism industry, including the impacts of tourism on destination economies, communities and fragile environments. Students will be expected to take a critical perspective on the effects of tourism on their own country, and how tourism can have a strategic developmental function.

Business Computing
This module provides students with a basic understanding of the use of Information Technology in a business context through some common applications.

Travel Agency and Tour Guide Operations
This module provides students with a broad understanding of the retail travel industry and tour guide operations. It will provide an introduction to the principles and practices of tour guiding and travel consultancy techniques to ensure an effective business. Whilst some of this module may seem to have a European perspective, students will be encouraged to consider how to apply this knowledge to a travel agency or tour guiding business in their own country.

Introduction to Tourism Economics
This module will provide the knowledge and tools to establish an understanding of tourism economics and it will focus on the tourism business and the external circumstances in which it operates. It will give students the opportunity to study the main concepts of economic theory and their importance to the Tourism Industry.

Special Interest Tourism
This module allows students to explore the important growth market which combines hobbies and interests, active sport and adventure activities, and social and cultural encounters with tourism.

Destination Analysis
The aim of this module is to provide students with a holistic understanding of destination analysis by investigating established and developing destinations. This module reflects on the concept of travel destinations and their development. The social, cultural and political features of tourism destinations will also be investigated. Students will be expected to understand and apply a destination audit.

Finance for the Travel Industry
This module will give students the knowledge, skills and techniques that will help with the management decision making process. It will look at the process and practices which take place within a travel agency and at the analytical skills required to understand financial information.

Marketing
To provide students with an understanding of marketing and its application in the international hotel and tourism industry, and the ways in which marketing strategies and approaches can be used to optimise product penetration.

Introduction to Business Operations
This module will provide students with a broad introduction into the complex world of hospitality and tourism business operations. It provides an overview of the separate functions and activities that concern managers in modern businesses. This module reflects modern concerns of hospitality and tourism business operations.

SECOND YEAR

Tour Operation
Students will be given the opportunity to investigate the Tour Operations sector of the travel and tourism industry, including the different types of operator, their products and services, the scale of the sector and how it has been affected by trends and developments. Students will also look at distribution methods used by tour operators to sell holidays, including the traditional use of travel agencies and the emergence of methods such as the internet and television.


Management Accounting
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the financial and accounting records used in the Hospitality Industry, and the ways these can aid effective managerial decision-making. It gives detailed additional coverage on Sales & Cash Budgeting, Marginal Costing and Final Accounts for internal use. The course content should follow on from the material in DTM 192, allowing students to calculate marginal costings and formulate decisions from such material. It gives students the ability to interpret accounting information and maximize the use of computing in management accounting.

Strategic Tourism Management
The Tourism Industry faces new and complex changes during the 21st century. This module is designed to make students aware of the strategic planning process and its impact on organisations in the tourism industry. Students will gain a thorough understanding of tourism policy-making within global, international and national contexts and will start to develop an ability to establish and apply innovative strategic planning approaches in response to corporate policies. The module will provide students with sense and imagination in the relationship between policy and practice and it will enable students to develop monitoring mechanisms that evaluate policy and business responses to issues and trends, and the use of that information in strategic planning. Students will explore the necessary tools, procedures and competencies needed to analyze, define, plan and manage change in an international context.

Sustainable Tourism & Destination Management
The aim of this module is to encourage students to reflect on some of the issues raised at Diploma level about tourism destinations and how they can be developed. It will also show the value of an integrated approach and will provide students with a holistic understanding of how to manage a tourism destination and use sustainable tourism methods.

Human Resource Management
The aim of this module is to provide a foundation in both the knowledge and skills of Human Resource Management required by managers in the hospitality industry. The module recognizes that management of human resources at all levels can critically affect the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization.

Management Research Report
This module should be studied concurrently with other Advanced Diploma Modules over the same period. It offers the opportunity for students to carry out a research report that involves analysing and interpreting data and making recommendations for future action. It has a secondary aim of developing independent research and study skills that students will require when following a further period of study or working in the industry.
 
 
   
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