EG225-5-FY-CO:
Contemporary Issues in the International Tourism and Hospitality Industry
2024/25
Edge Hotel School
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
15
25 March 2024
Requisites for this module
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BA N886 Hospitality Management,
BA NA86 Hospitality Management (Including Year Abroad),
FDA N887 Hospitality Management
This module will enable you to analyse current contemporary issues that impact on management, staff, operations, and customers within the international hospitality industry. Contemporary management practice will be studied within changing organisational, consumer, and environmental contexts to enhance your understanding of factors that impact on competitive positioning within the industry.
The aims of this module are to enable students to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of contemporary issues that impact on the international hospitality industry. - Political changes, economic, social and technological innovations; - Environmentalism and green measures; - Technological innovation.
- Evaluate the impact of trends on the international hospitality industry. - Trends, megatrends and fashion.
- Analyse the importance of crisis management and the impact of terrorism on the international hospitality industry. - Crisis and risk management; - Natural disasters; - Terrorism.
- Recognise how effective management anticipates and responds to changing environmental factors and shifting consumer demands. - Current issues facing the hospitality industry and how the industry is responding.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of global contemporary issues that impact on the international hospitality industry.
- Evaluate the impact of trends on the hospitality industry.
- Analyse the importance of crisis management and the impact of terrorism on the hospitality industry.
- Recognise how effective management anticipates and responds to changing environmental factors and shifting consumer demands.
No additional information available.
Learning and teaching will take the shape of classroom-based lectures and seminars where Wivenhoe House will be used to contextualize theory and illustrate practice. Self-managed learning will supplement seminars where you will be provided with guidance on required reading and online learning resources.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Individual Report |
31/01/2025 |
75% |
| Coursework |
Infographic |
02/05/2025 |
25% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Banthita Hunt, email: banthita.hunt@essex.ac.uk.
Banthita Hunt
Edge Hotel School, ehs@essex.ac.uk
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Available via Moodle
Of 16 hours, 16 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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