Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management Program at SUNY Plattsburgh

Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management at SUNY Plattsburgh

Prepare for a Career in a Leading Industry

Our program is designed to prepare you for a 21st century career in a field that will soon be the largest employer in the world. A program requirement of 800 hours of fieldwork greatly enhances your understanding of the industry.

The hotel, restaurant, and tourism management program combines liberal arts with professional studies, giving you tools for making sound professional decisions. The hotel, restaurant, and tourism management program at SUNY Plattsburgh combines theory with hands-on experience in food service, lodging, tourism, international hospitality, marketing leadership, management and accounting.

The program's strong business management emphasis makes it easy for you to earn a business minor while completing your hotel, restaurant, and tourism management degree requirements.

The hotel, restaurant, and tourism management program allows you to:

• Understand fundamental theory through our core curriculum courses;
• Gain hands-on experience through fieldwork at places such as Walt Disney, Tamaya Hyatt Resort, Sagamore, Lake Placid Lodge, Spirit Cruises, Pelican Bay;
• Prepare for a career in all sectors of the tourism industry including food and beverage management, lodging operations, hospitality marketing, tourism, and international hospitality.

Our Courses and Career Opportunities

Specialized courses in this program help you select a particular field for a career specialization. Our students have had work experience at Walt Disney World, the Waldorf Astoria, Radisson Hotels and Spirit Cruises as well as at a myriad of other restaurants, lodging, and tourism businesses including:

• Convention and meetings management.
• Food-service management.
• Lodging-operations management.
• Resort development and management.
• Tourism planning.

We prepare students for careers in food service, lodging, resorts, convention planning, travel and tours, cruise lines, theme parks, event management, and much more.

Program of Study

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management.

News

Student Michelle Zimmerman talks about the HRTM program With internships, a semester abroad in Sydney, Australia, and loads of hands-on course experience Michelle is ready to hit the ground running.

Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management in Plattsburgh Magazine Read about the hotel, restaurant and tourism management program, the Samuel D's facility, how the program has grown over the years and what current students think about the program. You can also find out what several of our alumni are doing now and how the HRTM program helped them get where they are. View the Summer 2008 Issue of Plattsburgh Magazine. Note: this 3.2MB PDF file requires the latest version of Acrobat Reader, which is available as a free download.

Questions, Comments, Suggestions?

If you would like more information about hotel, restaurant, and tourism management at SUNY Plattsburgh, please contact

Dr. Ray Guydosh, Dean
Office: Redcay Hall 156
Phone: (518) 564-3185
Email: ray.guydosh@plattsburgh.edu

SUNY Plattsburgh
101 Broad Street
Sibley Hall
Plattsburgh, NY 12901