Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management

An instructional program that prepares individuals to manage operations and facilities that provide food and/or lodging services to the traveling public. Includes instruction in hospitality industry principles; supplies purchasing, storage, and control; hotel and restaurant facilities design and planning; hospitality industry law; personnel management and labor relations; financial management; facilities management; marketing and sale promotion strategies; convention and event management; front desk operations; and applications to specific types of hotel, motel, and/or restaurant operations. Note: this program was re-instated after being deleted from CIP 2000; previously, it was coded as 52.0902.

While Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management offers degrees up to the Associates degree, most students study towards a Associates degree. Students major in Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management all over the country, though the major at the Associates degree level has the most graduates in North Carolina. The average annual income for an undergraduate degree in Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management is $50,500.