Orientation for Success in Higher Education - Importance of Feedback, Culture, and Teamwork

Orientation for Success in
Higher Education

Table of Contents
Impact of COVID 19 on Hospitality, Travel and Leisure...............................................................3
Use of Formative Feedback to inform and improve summative assessment work.........................4
Cultural and Behavioural Expectations of studying for a degree in business and management.....4
Importance of Peer to peer Support and team working to increase learning experience.................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The project is based on Orientation for success in Higher education in which the importance
of reflective approach to learning within Business and Management is explained including the
use of formative feedback to inform and improve summative assessed work. It also covers the
cultural and behavioural expectations of studying for a degree in management and also the
importance of team working and peer to peer support to increase the learning experience is
discussed.
Impact of COVID 19 on Hospitality, Travel and Leisure
COVID 19 spread across the entire world due to which businesses and people are not able to
work that leads to decrease in economic growth and corporate profits. The pandemic brought
severe challenges and repercussions to hospitality, travel and leisure industry. They are facing
huge loss which influences their profitability and growth. Most of the Hotels gets shut as they
were facing challenges to run the business in effective and smooth manner (Vaikunthavasan,
Jebarajakirthy and Shankar, 2019). Due to the spread of disease government has imposed rules
and regulations which is being followed by people and businesses. Government has restricted to
run the business for few months and people were not allowed to gathered and came out of their
home without any reason. The government of each country have handled the COVID 19
situation in different terms some has imposed lockdown, economic relief and travel restrictions.
Due to travel restrictions, Hospitality, travel and leisure industry is facing lot of problem as
people were not allowed to travel which has influences the profitability of Hotel sector
(Michael, Morris-Dueer and Reichert, 2017). These industries are in unique situation as the main
reason for spreading the disease is travelling. Hospitality, travel and leisure industries are the
hardest hit sector in pandemic due to cancellation of tours, hotel reservation, flights and decrease
in restaurant in terms of hotel occupancy rates, inbound travels and reduction in average room
rates which affects the profit margin of the industries. Hotels are also experiencing substantial
revenue loss, wages, utilities and salaries and other expenditure and statutory payments (Miller,
Fassett and Palmer, 2021). The industries are badly bruised as they were not remaining same
after the travel restrictions and lockdown has been lifted. In order to sustain in competitive
environment, it is necessary to develop survival strategies that can help in increasing the growth
and profitability of business after post pandemic. The Challenges which is faced by Hospitality,