The demand for high-quality specialists in hotel business management has been growing since 2011 in parallel with the growth of hotel real estate in Russia. And as many foreign management companies left from the market since the beginning of 2022 the need for professional personnel for hotels has increased at times.
The Government of the Russian Federation is taking unprecedented measures to support and develop the hotel industry in the country, implementing the national project “Tourism and the Hospitality Industry”. Leading Russian universities are involved in the implementation of training programs for the industry.
The new program “Hotel Business” is aimed at training specialists who are ready to become part of hotel business organizing management team in the future, who can make decisions on the development and improvement of hotel facilities in a changing external environment and challenges of a geopolitical scale.
The program is based on:
✓ basic principles of operational activities’ organization of a hotel enterprise.
✓ information technologies of hotel facilities’ operational management.
✓ technological processes of a hotel enterprise (theoretical aspects of algorithm construction and standards development, as well as practical implementation experience).
✓ marketing and sales of hotel services in a new reality.
✓ technologies of hotel facilities’ strategic and project management.
✓ hotel market analytics.
✓ 2 foreign languages, business, and intercultural communication.
✓ 4.5 months of practical training at hotel facilities.
Each course has the key disciplines, which are implemented in partnership with employer companies based on real industry cases with public protection of projects.
During the period of study at this program of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, you will have:
✓ development of projects under the guidance of practical teachers (including deputy Head of Rostourism E.V. Lysenkova, Director of Global Sales of the International Association of Luxury hotels Preferred Hotels&Resorts E.V. Tarasenko, independent expert on personnel development, business coach A.A. Gerasimova, financial analyst, MHOSPA K.V. Levchenko, permanent members of the SEC co-chairman of the Commission on Tourism and Hotel Business of the Association of Managers of Russia, General Director of Venedi Hotel Group I.N. Pekhova, independent hotel management expert S.V. Burova, etc.
✓ constant information exchange, workshops, round tables, project seminars from the most competent industry specialists, managers and leading experts, top managers of hospitality enterprises.
✓ Openness and cooperation of the faculty of the Department of Tourism and Hotel Business.
This discipline will give students the theoretical and organizational foundations of the service organization at hotel and restaurant enterprises, standards of operational activity at all stages of the technological cycle of guest service, technology, and organization of catering services in hotel complexes.
Internet, Intranet and WEB technologies at the enterprises of the hospitality industry. Automation of business planning and evaluation of business projects’ effectiveness at enterprises of the hospitality industry. Calendar and network planning and project management at the hospitality industry enterprises. Statistical data processing at the hospitality industry enterprises.
Types and structure of a hotel enterprise resources. The main directions of hotel enterprise resource management. Efficiency assessment of using different resource’s types at a hotel enterprise. Modern resource management systems of a hotel enterprise.
Key characteristics and features of marketing in the tourism and hospitality industry. Marketing concept in tourism and hospitality. Marketing technologies in the tourism and hospitality industry.
While studying the discipline, students will learn more about strategic and business planning of hotel enterprises, methods of managing the hospitality facilities’ economic performance, as well as directions for using the results of business planning in the activities of hotel companies.
This discipline covers transformation of hotel business development traditional models in the context of digitalization, the stages of developing digital strategies in the tourism and hospitality industry, the main types, characteristics, and classification of digital projects in the tourism and hospitality sector.
Alumni of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation working in the field of tourism and hospitality are
Study at one of the leading universities in the country
The fundamental program with practical orientation
Classes are taught by teachers with practical management experience in the tourism and hospitality industry
The program involves in-depth study of two foreign languages
The opportunity to create student startups in tourism and hospitality, to participate in the work of the laboratory “Development of Tourist Destinations”
Programs of student academic mobility and double-degree diplomas
One of the best Student Councils, a volunteer center, more than 15 creative teams and studios, a sports and recreation complex and student sports teams in various sports, the Rector's Golf Cup and many more
