TASK OVERVIEW: This assignment is the first step to preparing you for the capstone project. Students will select a tourism & hospitality-based business in which both qualitative and qualitative research will

be conducted during the course. I am open to the firm selected within the business of tourism & hospitality and the one criterion is that the firm must have 1,000 employees or more. You can select any sort of business (airline, restaurant group, hotel firm, coffee company, a company that handles commercial real estate, beverage firm think Bacardi Rum, Yards Beer, etc....) DELIVERABLES: Step One Select the tourism & hospitality-based business you will be focusing your research on for the course. OUR SELECTION: The Salamander Resorts Step Two Write a 150-word or more observation statement paragraph/narrative sharing what attracted you to your selected tourism & hospitality business and what your thoughts, hunches, and observations are about how human relations and resources work within the firm. STUDENTS POV: "My point of view is that it is owned by a black woman, it's international therefore diversity is important." EXTRA INSTRUCTIONS: It's important that this is touched on...business and what your thoughts, hunches, and observations are about how human relations and resources work within the firm. MLA FORMAT