Principles of Hospitality and Tourism
Course Summary
Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, Semester A, is a one-semester course intended to help you familiarize yourself with the hospitality and tourism industry. This course has eighteen lessons organized into four units. Each unit has a Unit Activity, and each lesson contains one or more Lesson Activities. This course will cover the history, diversity, components, and career opportunities in the hospitality and tourism industry. You will submit the Unit Activity documents to your teacher, and you will grade your work in the Lesson Activities by comparing them with given sample responses. The Unit Activities (submitted to the teacher) and the Lesson Activities (self-checked) are the major components of this course. There are other assessment components, namely the mastery test questions that feature along with the lesson; the pre- and post-test questions that come at the beginning and end of the unit, respectively; and an end-of semester test. All of these tests are a combination of simple multiple-choice questions and technology enhanced (TE) questions.