Best Practices of Lyceum of the Philippines University and Dusit Thani Tie Up: Inputs to Program Competitiveness

Abstract

Hospitality education has been a widely studied area in a hospitality curriculum evaluation. Internationalisation and linkages increases the quantity of graduate's efficiency in the way institutions are managed and producing graduates and professional's global outlook ready to be hired by internationalized economies. The Lyceum Hospitality curriculum was developed to integrate an in depth academics, laboratories and field internship programs that will ensure the efficiency and quality to meet worlds class standards. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the tourism and hospitality management awards and linkages and its inputs to program competitiveness. The research was an avenue to evaluate the program competitiveness of Lyceum of the Philippine University-Batangas in the hospitality industry. The researcher used retrospective method of research in analyzing existing data provided by the CITHM department and internship office. The researcher utilized open ended interview and focus group discussions among faculty members of CITHM and students. The gathered data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results revealed that the program competitiveness of LPU-B is a manifestation of the different awards, recognition and citations at both local and international scene. The linkages are marked by the placement of the On the Job Training (OJT) graduating students at different levels of the hospitality industry both locally and internationally.