GENERAL OBJECTIVE
The goal of the ISU degree program in Restaurant and Hotel Management is to prepare the students to deftly handle culinary and lodging techniques at the basic as well as advanced levels. In order to achieve this particular goal, studies cover a wide range of areas such as gastronomic products, business management , languages and the organization of quality events in the field. The program also covers the administrative and organizational know how that any and all tourist services require in order to form directors and managers who can actively promote and develop a market that today represents the country's second leading source of income.

PROGRAM CHARACTERISTICS
The curriculum is planned so that the students get the required knowledge, skills and attitude within a coherent, logical and complementary structure over a period of 9 semesters. Each semester is composed of 18 weeks; 2880 hours of class work with professors and 2304 hours of independent work.

The program is structured into four areas or levels: General Knowledge Area, Basic Area, Formative Area, Specialization Area.

CANDIDATE PROFILE
The ISU candidate must develop analytical thought with a capacity for synthesis and observation.

He must be organized with a high sense of service spirit.
He must have the potential to develop his creativity and spatial, verbal and manual talents which constitute essential characteristics.


 

GRADUATE PROFILE
On completion of the program at ISU, the Restaurant and Hotel Management Degree recipient is a professional with a solid base of knowledge, abilities, attitudes and values with managerial capabilities.

The graduate will be a professional who is able to efficiently and successfully design, organize and run any tourist activity related to the hotel and restaurant fields.

With a solid base in theory, methodology and technique, the graduate will be able to participate in research projects effectively. He will be able to diagnose specific problems in the areas of lodging, gastronomy and tourist services as well as design and plan alternatives for their solution.

He will develop independent production.

He will work jointly with teams to achieve objectives in the tourist industry.

He will have leadership skills and master at least two foreign languages.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES
The graduate of Hotel and Restaurant Administration will be a qualified professional with entrepreneurial vision. By making use of his administrative knowledge, he will be able to create his own business and join not only the hotel industry but also the tourist and gastronomic industries as well.

He will be prepared to work with multi discipline groups or teams in the tourist sector, especially in the wide range involved in the hotel industry.