{"id":59297,"date":"2014-05-14T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=59297"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:51:04","slug":"math-hotels-first-rosen-college-students-earn-demand-industry-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/math-hotels-first-rosen-college-students-earn-demand-industry-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the Math for Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rosen College students Stephanie Adkison, Yanique Bryan, Ryan Dowling, Bertram Jacques, Fernando Pasos, Eily Ridge, Michael Skinner, Barbara Tyler and Donald Warren are among the first at Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ to earn a Certification in Hotel Industry Analytics.<\/p>\n
The Certification in Hotel Industry Analytics (CHIA) is being offered globally to undergraduate and graduate students through a joint effort between the American Hotel & Lodging Association\u2019s Educational Institute (EI), the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE), and Smith Travel Research (STR).\u00a0 EI, ICHRIE and STR describe this certification as the leading hotel-related certi\ufb01cation for university students graduating from hospitality and tourism programs throughout the world.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½’s Rosen College partnered with STR to join its SHARE Center.\u00a0 Through this partnership, Rosen College students can earn a CHIA and take HFT4468 Revenue Management for the Hospitality Industry to prepare for the exam.<\/p>\n
CHIA recipients can \u201cdo the math\u201d and interpret the results, as well as analyze various types of hotel industry data and make strategic recommendations. Certi\ufb01cation also con\ufb01rms a comprehensive understanding of benchmarking and performance reports, in addition to the current landscape of the global hotel industry.<\/p>\n
The CHIA is based upon four core content areas:<\/p>\n
1. Hotel Industry Analytical Foundations,<\/p>\n
2. Hotel Math Fundamentals \u2013 the metrics used by the hotel industry,<\/p>\n
3. Property Level Benchmarking (STAR Reports),<\/p>\n
4. Hotel Industry Performance Reports (Trends, P&L, Pipeline and Destination Reports)<\/p>\n