

The first thing that comes to our minds when we hear Tourism and Hospitality is ‘people’. As the name of the degree suggests, it is all about customer service. Tourism and Hospitality degrees prepare candidates to work in diverse working environments all over the world.
Even so, many people confuse Tourism and Hospitality degrees with Tourism degrees. What is the difference between these two? The main difference lies in where the employees work. With a Tourism degree, you can work in a museum, national park and so on, whilst with a Tourism and Hospitality degree you will work in hotels, restaurants.
This degree is shaped in such a way that candidates acquire skills about hotel management, food preparation and sanitation as well as human resources.
Experts say that it only takes six months for Tourism and Hospitality graduates to find a job. The most frequent areas which display the highest number of job opportunities are catering management and hotel management. As a result of their flexible degree, 15% of the graduates choose to combine work with study to broaden their employability chances.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this field will have an addition of 700 jobs, both in management positions and others.
Perhaps the most important benefit is represented by the growth opportunities. This degree will teach you about networking and developing your emotional intelligence, which are of utmost importance in this field.
This degree lasts for three years, out of which one year should be spent abroad. Usually, in the second year of their studies, students go abroad and study in a partner country. The whole idea behind this is to encourage cultural awareness and adaptation.
Additionally, some universities in the UK provide a compulsory internship during which students gather relevant industry experience.
What I like most about Mzuzu University is the quality of education there. The administration is dedicated to providing the best tertiary education by employing well-experienced lecturers. The institution also added construction projects to increase the capacity of facilities such as classrooms, library, and now they are working to add the number of hostels on campus so that most students get access to on-campus accommodations. Although the grading system is different from other universities since we did not use GPA, the institute is still considered one of the best Universities in Malawi. I also enjoyed the pace of the semester whereby lecturers would assign us assignments that could either be individual or group assignments for us to work on the whole semester. During my third year, we had two lecturers give us assignments that basically covered the entire coursework (Research Methodology and Tourism Planning course), and we were to submit the work at the end of the semester. This made what we were learning more practical and easy for us to understand exactly what they were telling us in class. This was a common approach to many of our courses. I also enjoyed the extracurricular activities, such as on-campus parties, social weekends (more like dress-up parties) and the drama club.
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