Hospitality, Events and Tourism
This Cluster focuses on delivering quality customer service, memorable experiences, and seamless logistics to cater to the needs and preferences of guests, tourists, and event participants. The Cluster is characterized by its diversity, including everything from luxury hotels and international travel to local dining, cultural events, and business conferences, aiming to enhance the overall experience of visitors and attendees.
Pathway Design Sheets
Pathway Design Sheets are Kansas CTE guides that act like blueprints, showing the required and optional courses, the skills students must learn, and the order in which classes should be taken to meet state pathway standards. They also include industry‑aligned competencies, CIP codes, and program requirements that help schools design and maintain approved pathways, ensure curriculum matches Kansas expectations, and support compliance with Perkins funding and improvement planning.
Teacher Resources
Kansas BPA: Business Professionals of America is the leading CTSO for students pursuing careers in business management, office administration, information technology and other related career fields. For more information please visit the Kansas BPA website.
The Culinary Job Evaluation Rubric is a checklist used to evaluate students working in restaurant and event management settings. It rates their skills in areas like safety and sanitation, customer service, food preparation, equipment use, basic math for cooking, workplace habits, and professional behavior across four grading periods. Supervisors score each skill on a scale from 1 to 4 and leave comments, helping track the student’s growth and readiness for culinary careers.
- Culinary Job Evaluation Rubric 071621 (PDF) Document available upon request.
Kansas DECA: DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers around the world in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. For more information please visit the Kansas DECA website.
Kansas FBLA: Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) education association with a quarter million students preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. For more information please visit the Kansas FBLA website.
Kansas FCCLA: Family, Career and Community Leaders of America promotes personal growth and leadership development through Family and Consumer Sciences education. For more information please visit the Kansas FCCLA website.
SkillsUSA Kansas: SkillsUSA improves the quality of America's workforce through a structured program of citizenship, leadership, employability, technical and professional skills training. SkillsUSA helps each student excel. For more information please visit the SkillsUSA Kansas website.
