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Typical course description: In this course students learn about Hotel and lodging operations such as marketing, sales and convention services, front office, accounting, human resources, and food and beverage operations. Students develop the basic social, economic, sales, marketing, and technical competencies to succeed in this industry.
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
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.
Restaurant and Food Service Series Event is a short business scenario. Individual students will be challenged to perform functions and tasks in full service restaurants and food service departments in various settings by assuming the role of customers, employees, supervisors and manager.
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 satisfying the desire to make productive or enjoyable use of leisure time.
The Business Law and Ethics Management Team Decision Making Event is a case study event in a role–play format. Team members are given a real–world, decision-making case study situation involving competing social values that may reasonably be argued from either side.
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