Ivy Tech Community College Offers Event Management Concentration

Ivy Tech Community College is offering a concentration in Event Management through its Hospitality Administration Department.  The concentration will combine hospitality, travel management, convention and meeting management, meeting planning and tourism, among others.

Courses offered this fall will be Introduction to Convention/Meeting Management (HOSP 172) and Travel Management (HOSP 144).

These courses will prepare individuals entering into the highly popular and expanding field of event planning.  Upon successful completion of these courses, students will be able to construct the framework for planning a meeting, convention or exposition, identify aspects of convention and meeting management, analyze the growth and coinciding changes that this industry has experienced, project trends within the industry, describe segments of the travel industry and trends for each, understand technology as it pertains to the travel industry. 

Students must be enrolled at Ivy Tech Community College-Northeast and be working towards a degree in the Hospitality Administration program.

To register for the two courses offered this fall, call Jeff Bunting, Hospitality Program Chair, at 260-481-2240 or e-mail jbunting1@ivytech.edu.

Ivy Tech Community College is the state’s largest public post-secondary institution and the nation’s largest singly-accredited statewide community college system with more than 120,000 students enrolled annually.  Ivy Tech has campuses throughout Indiana.  It serves as the state's engine of workforce development, offering affordable degree programs and training that are aligned with the needs of its community along with courses and programs that transfer to other colleges and universities in Indiana.  It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association.