Bachelor of Business Administration in
TRAVEL & TOURISM MANAGEMENT
The concentration in Travel and Tourism Management provides you with a fundamental understanding of the various interacting and dynamic business components of the travel and tourism industry. You will learn about its development, organization, public sector involvement, communication and transportation systems, attractions, auxiliary services, and economic, environmental, and cultural impacts.
As an LMU business major with a concentration in travel and tourism, you develop an understanding of all the business basics – accounting, marketing, finance, management, computer information systems, and human resources. Your studies gain strength from first-rate and internationally-known faculty, superb facilities, and good connections to excellent business and professional networks in Southern California and throughout the world.
Yet, no LMU graduate becomes a narrow specialist. All have experienced the personal growth and enrichment that flows from Loyola Marymount’s core curriculum – an appreciation of the arts, sciences, philosophy, religion, and history that shape our world and its various cultures. Each has gained perspective from a university context, which never loses sight of the moral and ethical values involved in business and its relationships with the community and society.
If you concentrate in travel and tourism, you’ll be a part of the LMU College of Business Administration. The College is more fully described in other publications, but here are a few essentials:
The College
FACULTY
Business administration faculty are directly involved with students and their personal development. All the faculty members have advanced degrees from leading U.S. and international schools, and all teach and counsel undergraduates.
ACCREDITATION
Both the undergraduate and the MBA programs of the College of Business Administration are fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International. This adds value to your degree and will indicate the high quality of your education to future employers.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
Much of your academic work will take the form of real-world business situations. Beyond the classroom, Southern California is filled with opportunities for practical experience. The LMU Travel Program helps to arrange appropriate industry internships as part of the required curriculum for credit, so that undergraduates can apply their new knowledge, start to build a resume, and in some cases earn while they learn.
STUDY ABROAD
The College emphasizes business in a global context. Although not required, students are encouraged to study abroad, and arrangements are in place for overseas programs in nearly every country in Europe as well as Japan, Korea, China, Mexico and South American countries. An excellent learning experience is provided by LMU’s New Europe Program in Bonn, Germany, where students can pursue their studies both in the classroom and outside with travel and part-time international internship arrangements.
JOB PLACEMENT
Throughout your four years in the College, you will be honing your own marketability through your studies, by gaining practical experience, and by learning techniques of the job search process. Beyond that, the College and its faculty members have strong ties throughout the regional, national, and international business community. An active University Career Development Office offers opportunities and a place to post your resume on the network used by corporate employers.
BUSINESS ETHICS
Business must honor the essential values of society – ethical, moral, social, and environmental. This awareness has always been at the heart of a Loyola Marymount education and the University draws students with a strong sense of values.
The Business Curriculum
Like all LMU students, those concentrating in Travel and Tourism Management focus their work in early semesters on the University’s core curriculum. This not only develops the broad knowledge base and cultural awareness of an educated person; it also contributes to communication skills and disciplined thinking, which have direct value in any business pursuit.
The business curriculum builds on first year core courses. During the sophomore year, you gain familiarity with computer-based systems, accounting, statistics, and the legal environment of business. Junior core business courses concentrate on management, marketing, human resources, finance operations, information systems, and international business. With this foundation, you’ll be prepared to choose electives in your senior year to gain greater depth of knowledge and skill in one or more areas of concentration.
Courses in Travel and Tourism Management
Required and elective courses in Travel and Tourism Management include:
•Introduction to Travel and Tourism
•Marketing and Selling Travel and Tourism
•Legal Foundations of Travel and Tourism
•Financial Management in Travel and Tourism
•Travel and Tourism Internship
•Strategic Management Seminar in Travel and Tourism
•Air Transportation in Travel and Tourism
•The Cruise Industry
•Eco-tourism
•Field Experience/Familiarization Trips
•Gaming Industry Management
•Hospitality Management
•Human Resources in Travel and Tourism
•Meeting and Convention Management
•Road and Rail Transportation in Travel and Tourism
•Services Enterprise Management
•Tour and Travel Packaging and Management
•Travel and Tourism Information
•Global Tourism Destinations
•Special Topics
•Independent Study
Meet the Faculty
Alan K. Hogenauer
Associate Professor and Program Director
Ph.D., M. Phil., Columbia University; A.B., City University of New York.
Dr. Alan K. Hogenauer brings 35 years of broadly-diversified experience to the Center for Travel and Tourism. Dr. Hogenauer has held analytic and/or executive positions with Trans-Australia Airlines, East African Airways, and Trans World Airlines. He has also served as consultant and Project Manager for airport planning studies throughout the United States and Canada, and in Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Thailand.
For more than fifteen years, Dr. Hogenauer has taught marketing, tourism, and transportation – in New York, California, Russia, seven Chinese cities, Antigua, Barbados, and the Bahamas – at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as in industry seminars.
His professional and research activities have to date taken him to 285 countries and territories, all seven continents by a contiguous surface routing, more than 1,000,000 unduplicated air route miles, and travel by over 450 different means of transport (see www.cheklist.com for additional details).
Gary P. Sibeck
Professor
B.A., M.A., J.D., University of Oklahoma; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Before joining academia, Professor Sibeck spent three years practicing law. He teaches courses in principles of marketing, international marketing, the global environment of business, and international business law, and has presented papers and published in the field of international business. He is a member of the American Marketing Association, the American Business Law Association and several regional international organizations.
Careers in Travel and Tourism
The concentration will help you develop a challenging managerial career within the travel and tourism industry. The employment opportunities include, but are not limited to, these exciting areas of the industry:
Airlines and Airport Operations
Car Rental Companies
Conventions and Meetings
Corporate Travel Management
Cruise Industry
Destination Promotion
Incentive Travel
Lodging Industry
Motorcoach Companies
On-line Travel Providers
Rail Travel
Research and Marketing Companies
Support Industries
Theme Parks
Tour Operators
Trade Associations
Travel Agency Operations
Travel Publications
For more information or to arrange a campus tour, call the Admissions Office at (310) 338-2750.