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Students will research the major duties and qualifications for managerial positions common to back-of-house and front-end operations in many lodging operations to create a menu of career opportunities. Students will review independently owned and chain-affiliated lodging facilities to compare advantages and disadvantages of each, and they will analyze the functions performed by different divisions within a lodging operation. Students will study limited-service versus full-service properties, staffing and duties, and the use and management of meeting facilities.
The following competitive events are examples of events that can be integrated into this course.
Additional events may also be appropriate depending on the scope, content and structure of the course.
These are suggestions for using competitive events in your classroom. They are not intended to restrict
you or your students to certain competitive events. Any DECA member can enter any competitive event.
Sample
Competitive Events Description
Accounting Application Series is a short business scenario. Individual students will be challenged to perform functions and tasks focusing on the application of financial data to business planning and analysis of data to make business decisions by assuming the role of customers, employees, supervisors and managers.
The Hotel and Lodging Management Series Event is a short business scenario. Individual students will be challenged to perform functions and tasks in hotels, lodging services, and convention services by assuming the role of customers, employees, supervisors and managers.
Hospitality Services Management Team Decision Making Event is a case study event in a role-play format. A team of two is given a case study involving a management problem in hotels, motels, lodging services, convention services, and related food and beverage services. The participants present their recommendations to the judge playing the role of supervisor, manager or owner.
The Hospitality and Recreation Marketing Research Event asks teams of one to three students to actual marketing research in a hospitality or recreation business. The topic is identified by DECA each year. The students present their findings in a written report and orally to a judge playing the role of supervisor, manager or owner.
Entrepreneurship Events
Several entrepreneurship events are available. All involve the development of a written business plan and a presentation to a judge playing the role of a "venture capitalist". Each business plan event is described below.
The Entrepreneurship Written is a business plan event in which a team of one to three members develops a proposal to start a new business, including a description of the way the business will operate and detailed plans for financing the business through its first three years of operation.
The Entrepreneurship Participating Event is a business plan event. An individual student develops and presents a proposal to form an independent business or a franchising business. The student develops a marketing/promotion plan and a financial plan.
In the International Business Plan Event a team investigates and develops a plan to begin a new business venture to either import or export a product and/or service to or from a country of their choice.
In the Internet Marketing Business Plan Event a team researches and designs a plan to start an Internet business or enhance a component of an existing Internet business.
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