FUNDAMENTAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM INDUSTRY (HTM400)

GUIDELINES FOR GROUP ASSIGNMENT HTM400 (OCTOBER 2020 – JANUARY 2020)

Project Topic

Do a report on a ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY. The issues and challenges
should be related with the hospitality industry. Students need to find ACADEMIC JOURNALS (3) and
SUPPORTING MATERIALS (ARTICLES/ BLOGS/ ETC) (3) that are related to trends in hospitality
industry. The journals and supporting materials should get approval from the lecturer). Based on the the
issues and challenges, students need to come out with one innovative recommendation that can be
implemented and used by the industry. Recommendation can be in many forms (software / products /
process / models / etc).

A written report with the following sections shall be submitted on the 13 th week of the semester.

Details in the report

- An introduction of the issues and challenges.

- The describing and discuss the issues and challenges
- The problems and the recommended solutions (if any) and might SWOT analysis of the
recommendation
- Attach the journals and supporting materials in the appendices.
- Please include relevant statistics (if any), pictures (if any), graphs (if any) to enhance the report.

Format of the report

- Cover page
- Table of content
- Acknowledgement
- Contents (refer to ‘Details in the report’)
- Conclusion
- References
- Appendices (pictures/sample of forms/tickets/voucher/etc)
- Report should not be more than 20 pages and should not be less than 10 pages

Project Rules

1. There should not be more than 5 students in a group. Neither changing members nor changing teams
is allowed
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated
3. Please be as creative as you can in terms of report writing and presentation

Project evaluation

Report : 20%

Note: Refer to your textbook for the reference of your report. Thank you and All the Best.