The hospitality industry is a global one. The successful manager or owner will be likely to speak more than one language and will almost certainly have exposure to a variety of cultures, whether working in the U.S. or abroad. On campus you will live, study, and work with students from more than 135 countries. But exposure to such diversity need not only occur at home. Boston University is renowned for international programs and sponsors them in countries on six continents.
Many programs feature an internship component.
The school can arrange placements for students in a variety of overseas hospitality industry businesses. In the London Internship Program, students live and work in London, where they take classes with British professors in the social sciences and humanities. Then in a carefully supervised internship, students work in a London hotel for ten of the fourteen weeks of the program. Students live in the beautiful Kensington area of London and can enjoy the culture, entertainment, and history of the city. The Paris Internship Program involves intensive French language instruction and classes in European style hospitality during the fall semester.