Hospitality & Tourism Research Center The Hospitality & Tourism Research Center (HTRC) is the leading source for quality research on and for the hospitality industry. It creates new knowledge—and shares that knowledge to power hospitality forward. At roundtables and other meetings, Westland City University’s School of Hospitality & Tourism faculty, corporate partners, and other industry leaders collaborate to frame timely issues and understand important topics. The HRC Fellows work with business leaders to develop new ideas, theories, and models that improve strategic, managerial, and operating practices. These insights are captured in research reports and industry tools that are available online at no cost. Thousands of academic and business leaders worldwide tap into this research stream. An active knowledge-sharing program further distributes the center’s work around the globe. Our students from the School of Hospitality & Tourism are fully involved in the hospitality and tourism research as well as in the internship programs with our partners in many countries.
Ecotourism & Sustainable Travel Research Center The Ecotourism & Sustainable Research Center fulfills its Research function by identifying and addressing ecotourism and adventure travel related research needs. The center is responsible to conduct research on ecotourism and adventure travel issues that can last decades and span huge geographical areas.Because environmental problems involve complex relationships, an interdisciplinary approach to addressing them is essential. Thus, the research program emphasizes collaborative studies that involve university faculty and staff from many disciplines and interests.
Wine tourism refers to the tourists, whose mind is or includes the consumption of, wine tasting and buying wine. Wine tourism can consist of visits to vineyards and restaurants known to offer unique wines, wineries, as well as organized tours of wine festivals and other special events. Wine tourism is a concept and a product that applies the know-how of significant growth. Wine tourism period covers two parts, each of which are important for the environment, local finance and lifestyle, and which have long been intertwined.
The Hospitality & Tourism Research Center provides tourism businesses and destination communities with innovative solutions and strategic guidance to overcome the complex challenges associated with implementing sustainable tourism in the coastal zone. Coastal and marine tourism is the fastest growing sector of the global tourism industry. In a world that is rapidly changing, the Hospitality & Tourism Research Center provides clients with achievable solutions that advance sustainable tourism in the coastal zone and at sea for generations to come.
Economic Crisis Research Center (ECRI) The Economic Crisis Research Institute ( ECRI) is established to work on important projects assigned to the students of the School of Economic Crisis and Political Management. The world is moving fast and at the same time the Global Warming and Climate Change has considerably deepened the economic crisis. Many countries have recorded extreme losses with such deep crisis which has severe impact on the country´s production and revenue generating factors. We are among the first universities which has established a research center for the Economic Crisis where high level research is maintained. The ECRI works in collaboration with many countries government in order to give concrete advice and support to those countries and to find valid solutions to control the crisis and ameliorate the economy.
Sustainable Economic Development and Responsible Organizations Research Center (SEDRORC) Currently with the world economic crisis. Organizations globally are confronted with the need to function in a sustainable and responsible manner. Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility are closely related business concepts that have greatly affected corporate governance in the early 21st century. Sustainable development involves the use of environmentally responsible and efficient operational practices that preserve environmental resources crucial to your long-term business success. Corporate social responsibility, or CSR, involves balancing corporate citizenship and environmental responsibility to give back to the communities in which you operate.
Agricultural Research & Development Center (ARDC) The Westland City University is an intensive user of modern technologies to improve agricultural productivity in view of the natural resource base scarcity and population pressure. The Agricultural Research & Development Center works to ensure that the population of each country where WCU is operating, have reliable, adequate supplies of high-quality food and other agricultural products. ARDC accomplishes its goals through scientific discoveries that help solve problems in crop and livestock production and protection, human nutrition, and the interaction of agriculture and the environment. While the focus is on sustainable agriculture and natural resources, the long term goal is to offer a diversity of classes, learning and engagement opportunities consistent with the WCU land- grant mission and vision while meeting the needs of the various countries.
Sheep and Goat Research Center (SGRC) The WCU Sheep and Goat Center offers students a hands-on learning opportunity to build their skills in sheep and goat production, management, and marketing. With a strong history of success, the sheep and goat program offers students, and the world, information about sheep and goats through our teaching, research and Extension functions. The Sheep and Goat Center includes a reception/office area that houses student worker areas and an office for the Sheep Center manager. An indoor, climate controlled laboratory allows for activities such as semen collection and evaluation, wool and mohair evaluation, and ultrasounding. The lab also features a semen storage area. The outside pen area includes fenced, outdoor runs for sheep and goats, as well as a working pen facility that allows for hands-on learning.
Mushroom Research Center (MRC) The Department of Plant Pathology´s Mushroom Research Center provides unique facilities for conducting mushroom research.