Employability and Skills Handbook for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Students

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of think points
List of activities
List of case studies
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
PART 1: Employability skills for tourism, hospitality and events management
	1. Introduction to the textbook
		Introduction
		Textbook scope
		Key definitions: employability and skills
		Using the textbook for professional development in tourism, hospitality and events management
		Summary
	2. Sector overviews
		Introduction
		The scope of tourism, hospitality and events management businesses
		Leisure and recreation: overarching sectoral and research positions
		Management styles and business structures
		Research strands in support of tourism, hospitality and events management employability and skill development
		Summary
	3. Graduate employment
		Introduction
		What is graduate employment?
		Types of employment: SME, MNC, non-profit, public and self
		Employment and labour markets
		Employment in tourism, hospitality and events
		Summary
	4. Skills for tourism, hospitality and events employment
		Introduction
		Core, key and transferable skills
		Being entrepreneurial 24/7
		Matching skills to job descriptions in the service sectors
		Summary
	5. Text structure
		Introduction
		Structure of the textbook parts
		Added support: case studies, activities and Think Points
		Revision questions, additional sources and reference lists
		Learning gains from learning outcomes
		A
note for academics and teachers
		Summary
PART 2: Personal development
	6. Personal development in tourism, hospitality and events
		Introduction
		A
personal skills appraisal
		Skill mapping for tourism, hospitality and events
		Summary
	7. Self-awareness
		Introduction
		Definitions of self-awareness
		Critical thinking and neuro-linguistic programming for self-awareness
		Personal performance and presentation
		Summary
	8. Relationship skills
		Introduction
		Personal relationships
		Soft and interpersonal skills for professional relationships
		Cultural, cross-cultural and intercultural tenets of relationships
		Emotion, aesthetics and sexualisation in relationships
		Being a citizen of the world
		Summary
	9. Time management
		Introduction
		Time management as a personal ability
		Strategies for time management
		Summary
	10. Learning styles
		Introduction
		Approaches to learning
		Learning styles
		Learning forms and styles to aid academic and professional
		Summary
	11. Effective communication
		Introduction
		Forms of communication: verbal and non-verbal
		Written and digital communication
		Summary
PART 3: Academic development strategies
	12. Goals and targets
		Introduction
		Framing your goals and targets through research approaches and philosophies
		Philosophical stances
		Types of academic goals and targets
		Strategies for meeting goals and targets
		Summary
	13. Finding academic articles
		Introduction
		Forms of published academic material
		Themes and key words
		Methods for searching
		Search techniques and choosing the literature
		Summary
	14. Reading academic texts
		Introduction
		Motivations for reading in personal, academic and professional contexts
		Inductive and deductive reasoning for reading
		Surface and deep reading
		Strategies for effective reading
		Summary
	15. Academic writing
		Introduction
		Conventions within academic writing
		Writing using judgement, power and balance
		Strategies for academic writing
		Summary
	16. Secondary and primary sources
		Introduction
		Types and categories of sources
		Using primary and secondary sources in different research methods
		Sources used in academic and professional contexts
		Summary
	17. Motivating yourself
		Introduction
		Nurturing and developing your motivation
		Motivational theories applied in academic and professional contexts
		Summary
	18. Group work and alternative assessments
		Introduction
		Group work in studies leading to team working in industry
		Forms of academic assessment for group work
		Summary
PART 4: Professional development
	19. Leadership styles: evidencing reflective and reflexive thinking, learning and doing
		Introduction
		Learning and thinking reflectively and reflexively
		Reflecting upon leadership, management, manipulation and influence
		Trait style of leadership
		Behavioural (or participative) leadership
		Contingency leadership
		Transformational leadership
		Democratic leadership
		Authoritarian leadership
		Charismatic leadership
		Summary
	20. Networking
		Introduction
		Networking for academic and professional development
		Skills for networking
		Methods and processes for individual networking
		Summary
	21. Coaching and mentoring
		Introduction
		Performance management
		Coaching and mentoring
		Utilising coaches and mentors for your career planning and development
		Summary
	22. Forms of employment experience
		Introduction
		Effective CV writing
		Forms of employment experience
		Non-traditional locations for THE employment experience
		Summary
	23. Career mapping
References
Index