The Programme lasts 2 years. Delivery of the curricular material will be through a blend of lectures, tutorials, practicals, seminars, workshops, events and thematic visits to hospitality and tourism establishments. Lectures are a major part of the teaching strategy for the programme and they are an effective way of delivering core material and establishing a framework for a module against which other material can be set. Learning management in a purely theoretical environment would be a very difficult task unless one has accumulated a reasonable amount of experience. This is why the operational practicals are of utmost importance. It is the philosophy of City Unity’s Hospitality & Tourism Management Department to teach management by allowing the student to experience management through practice. For example, as a restaurant manager, it is difficult to supervise a brigade of waiters when an individual has not worked as a waiter. As a general manager of a hotel it is also just as difficult to manage a restaurant manager if one has not worked in his/her position. The same scenario is true for the kitchen and other departments. Practicals play a major role in the first year of the Hotel Management programme and serve to instill a sense of responsibility, dependability, reliability, confidence and self-esteem. The aim of the practicals is to provide students with the necessary technical skills within a realistic work environment which will facilitate their transition into hotel operations during their Industry Placement and later. More specifically, at level 4, where emphasis is on Hotel Operations, the course blends hospitality practical classes with classroom theory.