Career Cluster: Hospitality, Events, and Tourism

The Hospitality, Events, and Tourism Career Cluster emphasizes quality service, memorable experiences, and effective logistics to meet the needs of guests, travelers, and event participants. Students prepare for careers in food and beverage, lodging, travel, and event management.

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Learning Plans

Students practice event planning by creating a personalized party plan for a real client, using interviews and feedback to refine ideas, solve challenges, and organize logistics while applying creativity, communication, and critical thinking.

Students will work in teams to design and implement a simple, productive garden that provides fresh food and encourages healthy eating. The project includes researching sustainable practices, planning and building the garden, and promoting the benefits of fresh produce to the school and community.

This plan helps students address rising adolescent obesity, diabetes, and heart disease by promoting physical activity, nutrition, and mental wellness. They research and develop a product or service to encourage healthy habits, gaining awareness of health careers and practical insights into the industry.

Students work in groups to design an agritourism experience that boosts profits for a family-owned farm while offering agricultural literacy opportunities for the community. They research finance, marketing, tourism, and the farm’s production systems to create a successful, educational agritourism business.

small town

Student groups research target markets to identify community needs and propose a business plan to a mock city council offering downtown revitalization grants to attract more foot traffic.

Students create a healthy, simple energy bar recipe, design its marketing and branding, build a display box, and present their product to a group.

Cake Pops

Students develop a unique retail food product using Utah-sourced ingredients to create a new “Utah’s Own” company. Working in teams, they will design a product that can be sold in retail outlets or served in the school cafeteria.

Popsicle

Students survey peers about healthy concession products, choose one to test in class, and present it to a guest panel as a healthy option.

Students conduct research and create three different types of advertisements for a Utah vacation spot to be used to promote tourism in Utah to people who already live and work in Utah.

Grafton Utah

Students study, collect, write, and tell stories about Utah in digital formats.