The Department of hotel, restaurant and tourism business was created on the initiative of the President of the International Humanitarian University Serhiy Vasyliovych Kivalov in 2020. It is part of the faculty of management, hotel and restaurant business and tourism.

The department offers unique educational programs - "Hotel and restaurant business", "Tourism", "International hotel business", "Hotel development" and disciplines:

· Restaurant business
· Hotel business
· Bar business
· Sommelier
· Ethnic cuisines
· Event technology
· Luxury service
· Information systems and technologies in the hotel and restaurant business (Opera, Fidelio, R-keeper, Iiko, etc.)
· Management of hotels and restaurants
· Revenue management in the hospitality industry
· The economics of impressions
· Marketing
· Design of hotels and restaurants
· Architecture and design
· Restaurant creative
· HACCP in the restaurant industry
· Risks and insurance in the economy of impressions
· Management of corporations in the hotel and restaurant business
· HR-management of hotels and restaurants
· Project management in the hotel and restaurant business
· Hotel development

The final work involves the development of your own project of a hotel and restaurant complex with a complete package of documents, business plan and concept.
The competitive advantage of education is the ultra-modern infrastructure and the introduction of innovative technologies in the educational process, which allows students to master the art of business process management in hotels and restaurants in real time.
As part of the implementation of dual education, students acquire practical skills in real conditions on their own base of European level "ACADEMY".

Students have the opportunity from the first year to undergo international practice in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, on which the relevant agreements have been signed
Trainings, seminars and master classes of famous restaurateurs and hoteliers are practiced.
Sphere of professional activity of our graduates:

Opening your own business in the restaurant and hotel industry, consulting services for the design of restaurants and hotels, management of restaurants and hotels and their networks, hotel and restaurant service, catering, development of hotel projects.

The head of the department is Oksana Dyshkantyuk, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor. Dyshkantyuk Oksana is a member of the Sectoral Expert Council 24 Sphere of service (specialty "Hotel and restaurant business") of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. He is the developer of the standard of higher education of Ukraine in the specialty "Hotel and restaurant business". She studied the experience of training for the hospitality industry in the United Kingdom (Manchester Metropolitan University) and in Slovenia - University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies Portorož. Member of the working group on tourism development of the Odessa City Council. He is a co-author of 6 monographs and textbooks with the stamp of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (including in English). She has published more than 100 scientific and methodological publications (including periodicals included in the scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection). Member of the international association La foundation pour la formation hoteliere (United Kingdum, London). In 2018 prepared the winner of the second stage of the All-Ukrainian competition of student research papers in the specialty "Hotel and restaurant business". Head of the NGO "Hospitality Development Foundation".
Scientific direction of the department - "State regulation of institutional changes in the national economy in the hospitality industry."