This course describes the skills, knowledge, and performance outcomes required to develop the ability of students to become professionals in their field by understanding the ideas of improving one’s personality and ways on how they are going to be valued in the business industry by means of presenting their ideas like company meetings, professional networking, interviews, and through proposals of services considering the proper collaboration to their associates and portraying professional business ethics.  It also teaches writing skills and emphasizes verbal communication and preparation of plans that requires them to research career options and company potentiality and stability to develop a strong and effective career pathway.

The students will have a broad understanding of agritourism as a business specifically on agritourism enterprise opportunities, planning agritourism enterprises, and dealing with issues and obstacles faced by existing agritourism enterprises. It also include concepts that are important in enhancing the potential for success in agritourism. The course also include a field trip component to expose students to different agritourism sites.

This course will equip students with the necessary skills to develop actual marketing campaigns for a business within the tourism and hospitality industry.  Emphasis is on the analysis of the market, its competition, and its product, preparation of a financial budget, and the development of short-term and long-range strategies to achieve desired profit through effective advertising, sales, and an effective public relations plan.

This course explains the main decisions in relation to the variables that make up the marketing mix; namely the decisions associated with new product development, pricing strategies, communication strategies, as well as strategies associated with the distribution of destinations and other touristic products.