South Metropolitan TAFE's Mandurah campus is now delivering specialty courses at its new state-of-the-art facility, training skilled workers for the Peel region's bustling hospitality and tourism industries.

Hospitality Industry Snapshot

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Hospitality is a service industry comprising a wide range of fields broadly divided into Accommodation and Food & Beverage services. Read FutureNow's latest industry snapshot for the hospitality industry in Western Australia.

Fast Food Industry
​Snapshot

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Read FutureNow's latest industry snapshot for the Fast Food (Quick Service Restaurants) industry in Western Australia.

​Training and Education​
FutureNow works with stakeholders across the training and education landscape, and has a formal role to play in the development of vocational education and training to meet industry needs.
 
Western Australians have access to a range of hospitality and cookery training and education opportunities, from secondary schools, through to vocational and higher education providers, including TAFEs, private Registered Training Organisations, and Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and Curtin University. ​

Careers in the Hospitality Industry

​​​​Click on the thumbnails below to read our industry profiles and case studies for the Hospitality Industry.

Chef

Love food, cooking and getting creative with new flavours? Like planning, organising and
working in a team? Think artisan and entrepreneur – a career as a chef could be for you.

Brendan Pratt

Brendan’s chef accolades include Broadfield’s 25 Best and Most Influential WA Chefs (2019), Finalist of Australian Chef of the Year (2013) and Young Chef of the Year (2009) and he was a guest chef / judge on the television programmes MasterChef Australia.

Paul Iskov

Roaming chef Paul can probably claim to have cooked in more places than any other chef in Western Australia.
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Front of House

When you enter Front of House you can put
yourself front and centre as the face of the restaurant, bar or café.

Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman is the creative marketing mind behind some of Perth’s most exciting and
original venues.​

Jake Curnow

Heading up Front of House at Varsity, some of Perth’s best sports entertainment venues.

Hotel Management

Step through the door of a hotel or resort and there are many directions you can take to start your career in hotel management.

Anneke Brown

Anneke has brought her passion for delivering exceptional
service to some of WA’s most elegant hotel experiences.

FutureNow Career Pathways Website

A suite of occupational and pathway guides and a website  thecareers.guide ​have been produced by FutureNow to present career pathways information to prospective learners interested in employment in the Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Events sectors. 

​SIT Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Training Package

Training package qualifications are developed through a process of national consultation with industry. They are occupational skills standards against which training delivery and assessment of competency can take place. FutureNow works with our industry partners across Western Australia to provide current industry advice that informs the development or review of new event management training package products. ​

• The current SIT - Tourism, Travel and Hospitality  Training package, comprises 33 qualifications in tourism, travel, hospitality, cookery and events at levels ranging from Certificate I to Advanced Diploma.
• Subscribe to FutureNow’s newsletter for updates on current industry consultations for Training Package development.

Apprenticeships and Traineeships

​Apprenticeships and traineeships provide a way to combine training with a job, enabling the student to work towards a nationally recognised qualification whilst earning a wage. 

Access the traineeships linked to Hospitality and Cookery Qualifications

​VET for Secondary Students

FutureNow works with industry to provide current advice on the suitability of vocational Tourism qualifications for delivery to secondary students. This advice is collated and updated annually into the VET Qualifications Register for Secondary Students. 
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Access the current VET Qualifications Register for Secondary Students.

Year 9 Career Taster Program

The Career Taster Program enables Western Australia’s Year 9 students to explore the stages of early career discovery and study pathways, helping them to make informed decisions about their subject selections in Years 10, 11 and 12. The program supports students to become ‘career curious’ and extend their thinking through practical activities and meaningful experiences with the world of work.

Access the Year 9 Career Taster Program

Our Industry Partners and key resources

FutureNow works closely with a wide range of industry partners in hospitality to examine current trends and identify opportunities to support its workforce. Many maintain representation on our Board and/or our Hospitality Industry Advisory Network.
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