Tourism, Hospitality and Wine Industries
Tourism
Tourism, Hospitality and Wine Industries
Our Tourism & Hospitality program in Sonoma County can help you begin an exciting career!
"What I love about the hospitality/tourism field is there are so many directions you can go: front desk sales in hotels, travel agent, events, marketing assistant. It is not one specialized area; it offers a great many possibilities."
- Echo Wright, Event & Production Coordinator
Learn the intricacies of the hospitality, tourism and wine industry. Courses prepare students for 8 certificates from the Educational Institute of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, culminating in certification as a Guest Service Professional.
Objective: This short-term program provides the student with the necessary skills to enter the hospitality industry. There is an emphasis on tour planning, convention sales and service, event planning, California wine industry, California tourism courses, international and domestic travel planning, and guest service. Graduates qualify to work as reservationists, front desk clerks, planners, concierge positions or conference service managers, in addition to numerous other positions in the tourism and hospitality industry.
Program Length: 3 quarters
Diploma awarded upon successful completion of all graduation requirements.
This program includes the following courses:
- Various Computer, Internet and Microsoft courses
- Introduction to the California Wine Country
- Convention Management
- Meeting Planning
- Wine Country Tourism Program Internship
- Event Planning for the Wine Country
- Tour Planning
- Guest Services
- International Travel
- Sales for the Wine and Tourism Industry
- Tourism in the Hospitality Industry
- Marketing
- Hospitality Case Study
- And many more comprehensive courses!
Click here to view a course outline for the Tourism, Hospitality and Wine Industries program.
