Hospitality: it's one of the world's fastest-growing industries, encompassing a wide variety of occupations and career paths. This program illustrates the exciting opportunities offered by the industry and shows how job-seekers with almost any skill set or educational background can find success in the field. Viewers are introduced to three main areas of expertise-hotel management, culinary arts, and tourism-with detailed explanations of important jobs in each. The challenges of working as a hotel general manager, business center supervisor, front desk supervisor, executive chef, food scientist, professional food server, commercial pilot, bed-and-breakfast innkeeper, and cruise ship manager are revealed with the help of expert interviews and high-energy visuals. Smart ways to develop promising career paths are also explored. Correlates to all National CTE Organizational Standards (including the provisions of the Perkins Act).

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Oct. 24, 2007. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Career: Hotel Management (2:10) -- Career: Business Center Manager (2:01) -- Career: Front Office Supervisor (2:20) -- Culinary Arts: Executive Chef (2:30) -- Culinary Arts: Food Scientist (1:53) -- Culinary Arts: Professional Food Server (2:14) -- Tourism Careers: Commercial Pilot (2:38) -- Tourism Careers: Innkeeper (1:47) -- Tourism Careers: Cruise Ship Human Resources Manager (2:53).