Computer Integration in Hotel and Foodservice Management Education

Abstract

A study was conducted using the 108 affiliated institutions of the Council on Restaurant, Hotel, and Institutional Education in the United States to determine computer usage in hotel and foodservice management (HFM) education. The major results of the study indicated: The respondents required computer usage in 34% of the undergraduate core courses and in 48% of the graduate core courses. Only two software applications were used by more than 50% of the respondents with WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 being the most often mentioned packages. The attitudes of the respondents showed that most of the respondents did not agree that the use of computers in the curriculum and the use of available computer software was adequate.