This handbook provides students with an essential understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to work in the tourism, hospitality, and events industries. It offers reflective, reflexive, and critical analysis on personal, academic, and professional development. Not only looking at how to develop the skills, attributes, and prospects for employment in these competitive industries, this also focuses on what the employers in tourism, hospitality, and events sectors require of graduate employees. Highly illustrated, the chapters contain think points and activities, and case studies are integrated throughout offering first hand advice from both employer and graduate perspectives.

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