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Hospitality, Tourism & Event Management

Do you dream of living in a faraway, exotic place or a favorite getaway spot closer to home? Mountain lodges, seaside and ski resorts — and your hometown — all need people who are skilled in hotel and restaurant management. Our graduates enjoy positions as operational managers, sales and marketing professionals, front-desk agents, and night auditors. They also manage hotels, restaurants, banquet and catering services, marinas, bars, dining rooms, and hotel room divisions.

If you are organized and efficient even when working under pressure and juggling a variety of tasks, enjoy learning new things, physically fit, like working as part of a team that serves the public, have a pleasant personality and a healthy dose of common sense, then you are the perfect candidate for a career in hospitality!

Practice Makes Perfect

Most of our program's students also work part time for hands-on experience at local hotels and restaurants. Spokane's variety of hospitality venues offers a wide assortment of cuisine and levels of service, and the city is nationally recognized for its convention facilities. Available part-time positions in the area frequently include:

  • Front-desk operations
  • Sales and marketing
  • Night auditing
  • Catering, Banquet, and Restaurant Services

• Demonstrate critical thinking, writing, and verbal communication skills that illustrate a comprehensive understanding of theoretical issues about the historical, cultural, social, business and philosophical bases of hospitality, tourism and events management at local, regional, national and international levels.         
• Identify the principles of sustainable hospitality, tourism and events management and demonstrate knowledge of sustainable practices in applied business settings.   
• Design, plan, market and implement hospitality, tourism and event management programs that are designed to promote quality of life and instill a heightened sense of community within rural and diverse demographic groups.    
• Demonstrate entry–level managing and budgeting skills with recognition of the performance metrics that are unique to hospitality, tourism, and events management businesses, guests, and communities.

Note to all prospective students who wish to enroll in this option for the Business AAS degree need to meet with counseling for proper advising to ensure all the courses are taken in the proper order to graduate in two years. Please reach out to the program faclty, staff, or counseling liaisons on the Contact Us page. 

Eastern Washington has an increasing number of visitors and conventions, join this fun, exciting, and growing industry. If you work in the hospitality field, use this certificate to advance your career. The Hospitality, Tourism, and Event Management certificate looks at the scope of business operations; in the area of tourism, social media, and destination marketing are crucial to creating a successful visitor experience, and event planning studies a range of functions from social gatherings, conferences, special events and festivals.

The Hospitality, Tourism, and Event Management certificate includes Business AAS courses that allow students an opportunity to apply their classes towards an Associated of Applied Science Degree in Business Administration at SCC.

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Total Program Credits: 92 - 94


Program Courses

First Quarter

Course ID
Course Title
Credits
BT 152
College and Career Strategies  
3
BUS& 101
Introduction to Business  
5
CATT 120
Microsoft Word I  
2.5
HM 202
Front Office Procedures  
4
Total Credits
 
14.5

Second Quarter

Course ID
Course Title
Credits
BT 274
Business Writing for the Web  
5
BUS 103
Basic Business Math and Electronic Calculators  
5
HM 205
Hotel/Restaurant Law  
5
Total Credits
 
15

Third Quarter

Course ID
Course Title
Credits
CATT 138
Microsoft Excel I  
2.5
HM 221
Event Management  
5
MMGT 125
Social Media Marketing  
5
MMGT 223
Customer Service  
3
Total Credits
 
15.5

Fourth Quarter

Course ID
Course Title
Credits
BUS 280
Human Relations in Business  
5
HM 206
Revenue Management  
3
HM 220
Tourism and the Hospitality Industry  
3
MMGT 231
Human Resource Management  
5
Total Credits
 
16

Fifth Quarter

Course ID
Course Title
Credits
ACCT 151
College Accounting I  
5
BUS 104
Business Mathematics  
5
MMGT 101
Principles of Management  
5
Total Credits
 
15

Sixth Quarter

Course ID
Course Title
Credits
ECON 100
Fundamentals of Economics  
5
MIS 211
Information Technology in Business  
5
MMGT 100
Supervised Volunteer Experience  
1 - 3
MMGT 211
Marketing  
5
Total Credits
 
16-18

1 All students graduating from this program must have a minimum grade of 2.0 in each of the accounting, economics, business, management, and management information systems required courses. Students must also have a 2.0 cumulative minimum grade point average in all required courses in this program.
Costs for completing a degree or certificate can vary. For more information about costs, visit our How Much Does it Cost? page.

  • Duane Sunwold
    Duane Sunwold
    Hotel and Restaurant Mgmt
    A.A.S., Spokane Community College; additional study: Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
    Duane.Sunwold@scc.spokane.edu
    509-533-7337

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Neesa Guel

Pathway Specialist
Neesa.Guel@scc.spokane.edu
509-533-7005

 

Anne Mayer

Workforce Transition Specialist
Anne.Mayer@scc.spokane.edu
509-533-8191

 

John Yoon

Academic Counseling Liaison
John.Yoon@scc.spokane.edu
509-533-7356

 

Landon Johnston

Academic Counseling Liaison
Landon.Johnston@scc.spokane.edu
509-533-7190

 

Janet Breedlove

Program Coordinator
Janet.Breedlove@scc.spokane.edu
509-533-7283

 

Jeff Brown

Division Dean
Jeff.Brown@scc.spokane.edu
509-533-8882