Plymouth, United Kingdom

Hospitality and Hotel Management

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Hospitality and Hotel Management at City College Plymouth

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: physical education, tourism, services
University website: www.cityplym.ac.uk
Foundation Degree (FD)

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Hospitality
Hospitality refers to the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt describes hospitality in the Encyclopédie as the virtue of a great soul that cares for the whole universe through the ties of humanity.
Hotel Management
Hotel Management magazine is a trade publication produced by Questex, LLC.
Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.
Hospitality
So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 331.
Hospitality
Hospitality sitting with gladness.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
Management
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
Adam Smith (1776) The Wealth of Nations Chapter VIII, p. 80
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