MSU Denver and the Auraria Campus will be closed Dec. 24 through Jan. 1.

Program Duration:

Available Anytime: August 19, 2024 – December 13, 2024

Course Fees: $500

$35 Registration Fee + $465 Course Fee

Course Benefits:

  • Self-paced learning; content available anytime, anywhere
  • Badge in “Service Excellence in the Hospitality Industry” upon completion of the course
  • Earn your badge in 20-30 hours of self-study time
  • Practical, evidence-based solutions for the hospitality industry

Course Modules and Objectives:

Service Encounters in Hospitality Organizations

  • Define service encounters and their importance in a hospitality organization
  • Create a service blueprint that highlights service encounters in a hospitality organization
  • Detect areas of opportunity for your hospitality organization as it relates to service encounters

Service Failures in Hospitality Organizations

  • Understand the impact of service failures on a hospitality organization
  • Identify the root causes of service failures within your organization
  • Examine how customer failure and service recovery are linked
  • Detect current topics in service failure that will become relevant for hospitality managers in the next few years

Developing an Effective Service Recovery Program for Hospitality Organizations

  • Identify the reasons why an organization should create a service recovery program to address service failures in a hospitality organization
  • Utilize elements of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice to explain how customers evaluate service recovery initiatives
  • Obtain best practices for effective service recovery outcomesExplain the challenges and opportunities of double-deviation of service recovery programs

Essentials in Experience Management

  • Examine experience management as a hospitality business strategy
  • Apply a variety of experience management tools to understand guests’ experiences
  • Critique experience management concepts in an industry setting

Understanding LGBTQ+ Experiences in Hospitality Environments

  • Recognize the economic and social inclusion potential of the LGBTQ+ tourism segment
  • Understand the challenges members of the LGBTQ+ community face while navigating the hospitality and tourism ecosystem
  • Promote inclusivity by encouraging hospitality service providers to welcome and cater to the LGBTQ+ tourism segment
  • Recognize current communities within the LGBTQ+ tourism segment

Transformative Service Research in the Hospitality Industry

  • Highlight the importance of transformative service research and well-being in the hospitality industry
  • Differentiate how macro-level factors, micro-level factors, and micro-level factors influence tourist and employee well-being
  • Explain how the factors of consumer well-being (physical, mental, and social) impact behavioral outcomes