ITHACA—Hotel students face a daunting road ahead of them, and educators are finding it increasingly difficult to prepare them for all the twists and turns along the way, according to a panel of deans from some of the world’s leading hotel schools.
“Our students are going to graduate into a really tough environment. And that environment is going to get worse and not better,” said Bjorn Hanson, divisional dean of the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University.
Hanson—who along with four of his peers shared their thoughts on the state of the hotel industry and hotel education during a keynote session Tuesday at the Cornell Hospitality Research Summit—said NYU is responding by adjusting its curriculum to reflect today’s challenges.
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