This course is a combination of ESL and Tourism Awareness with Fundamentals in Business Workshops (3 months ESL plus 1 month Tourism and Business).  It offers an overview of tourism and business while reinforcing the new language in a specific learning context.

On successful completion of the tourism component of this course participants will be able to:

• Define key terms associated with hospitality and tourism
• Articulate the nexus between tourism marketing and the product
• Discuss the role of key players in tourism development
• Explain the factors influencing the development and growth of the industry
• Illustrate the role, responsibility and personal impact in the tourism sector
• current trends and concerns/challenges in the industry based on their readings and listening exercises
• Offer workable solutions to the concerns/challenges through spoken and written communication in English
• Describe and assess skills required for employment success in these fields

Business component:

• Define key concepts in business in English
• Use key business jargon in English
• Understand entrepreneurship and its role in the economy
• Describe and prepare a viable business model that can attract investment
• Develop a management file (student portfolio)

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