Hospitality management combines business, marketing, human resources, and other business studies with a concentration in hotel or restaurant management, event planning, and tourism. Students who opt for this field may be able to work anywhere around the world.

The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven emirates on the eastern side of the Arabian peninsula, at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. Much of the work force in the UAE are foreign expatriates - hence the country's population makeup being so diverse, with Emirati citizens being a minority in their own country.