Why study for a master’s degree in hospitality business management?
To put it simply, in today’s complex and competitive world if you want to work at executive level in a big company or if you want to successfully manage an SME, a bachelor’s degree is not enough anymore. The knowledge you need is simply not available at undergraduate level. Slowly but surely masters become the new baseline qualifications for higher education. Hospitality is a big global sector driven by multinational corporations. If you want access to upper-level management within one of them, you need more than a bachelor’s degree.
If you’re managing a small hospitality business, you will find an undergraduate degree and relevant work experience enough to successfully complete the job. But if your business grows you will realize that it is not enough anymore.
With a master’s degree, you would have the knowledge needed to boost your career, helping you move to upper-level management, positions with more security and potentially a role with higher pay.
The key components of the program
2 stackable professional & academic certifications
Advanced Training in U.S. or Work Placement in EU
100% online delivery (asynchronous and synchronous)
2 final degree options for a larger career perspective
Taught in English
International Lecturers
What we focus on
Affordability
British final degree at a much lower tuition than in home campus
Employability
1 high earning Advanced Training / Work Placement
Affordability
Student Loans, Payment Plans, Scholarships, Discounts
Employability
Host companies: only 4 & 5-star properties in the U.S. or EU
Affordability
Online delivery eliminates Brasov living expenses
Employability
Career coaching and personal development
Program structure
European Track
The Level 7 Executive Diploma in International Hospitality & Tourism Management covers all the key management skills in its eight different units. It is designed to equip you with the skills you need to advance your career into senior management roles within this huge global industry.
Mandatory Units – Online / Off Campus Delivery
Strategic Management
Managerial Finance
Operations Management in Hospitality & Tourism
Marketing & Customer Experience Management
Global HRM Strategies
Destination Management
Events & Project Management
Research Methods in Hospitality & Tourism
Work Placement
This is either a continuation of our UG Optional Employment or a new placement secured by the school with one of our partner host companies throughout Europe.
This Work Placement has also the role to cover expenses with Level 7 and MSc Top-Up.
The Level 7 qualification provides progression onto Top-Up Level part of the program.
From this point forward students can choose to finish their postgraduate studies with either a Hospitality Management or a more general Business Management master’s degree:
- Coventry University London - International Hospitality and Tourism Management MSc
- Anglia Ruskin University - Master of Business Administration
All Level 7 graduates are automatically admitted with Coventry University London’s MSc International Hospitality and Tourism Management Advanced Standing, which they will complete online. This final academic semester is delivered by CUL, while AHA acts as a support center and continues to deliver all career services for students. The academic delivery is designed to accommodate students attending a full-time internship or employment.
Mandatory Units – 100% Online (Off Campus) Delivery
CMI Leading Diverse Work Forces
Dissertation / Final Project
Level duration: 3 months
Work Placement
This is either a continuation of the UG Optional Employment or a new placement secured by the school with one of our partner host companies throughout Europe. This WP has also the role to cover expenses with Level 7 and MSc Top-Up.
All Level 7 graduates are automatically admitted with Anglia Ruskin University’s Master of Business Administration Advanced Standing (Final Project Stage), which they will complete online. This final academic semester is delivered by ARU, while AHA acts as a support center and continues to deliver all career services for students. The academic delivery is designed to accommodate students attending a full-time internship or employment.
Mandatory Units – 100% Online (Off Campus) Delivery
Major Project (Entrepreneurial Action)
Level duration: 4 months
Work Placement
This is either a continuation of the UG Optional Employment or a new placement secured by the school with one of our partner host companies throughout Europe. This WP has also the role to cover expenses with Level 7 and MSc Top-Up.
American Track
The Level 7 Executive Diploma in International Hospitality & Tourism Management covers all the key management skills in its eight different units. It is designed to equip you with the skills you need to advance your career into senior management roles within this huge global industry.
Mandatory Units – Online (Synchronous) Delivery
Strategic Management
Managerial Finance
Operations Management in Hospitality & Tourism
Marketing & Customer Experience Management
Global HRM Strategies
Destination Management
Events & Project Management
Research Methods in Hospitality & Tourism
Advanced Training USA
The main objectives of the third work experience include to deepen the knowledge gained so far, by continuing your career with an Advanced Training at the same host company where you completed your previous internship.
This placement has also the role to cover tuition expenses with Level 7 and MSc Top-Up.
The Level 7 qualification provides progression onto Top-Up Level part of the program.
- Coventry University London - International Hospitality and Tourism Management MSc
- Anglia Ruskin University - Master of Business Administration
All Level 7 graduates are automatically admitted with Coventry University London’s MSc International Hospitality and Tourism Management Advanced Standing, which they will complete online. This final academic semester is delivered by CUL, while AHA acts as a support center and continues to deliver all career services for students. The academic delivery is designed to accommodate students attending a full-time internship or employment.
Mandatory Units – 100% Online (Off Campus) Delivery
CMI Leading Diverse Work Forces
Dissertation / Final Project
Level duration: 3 months
All Level 7 graduates are automatically admitted with Anglia Ruskin University’s Master of Business Administration Advanced Standing (Final Project Stage), which they will complete online. This final academic semester is delivered by ARU, while AHA acts as a support center and continues to deliver all career services for students. The academic delivery is designed to accommodate students attending a full-time internship or employment.
Mandatory Units – 100% Online (Off Campus) Delivery
Major Project (Entrepreneurial Action)
Level duration: 4 months
Work Placement
This is either a continuation of the UG Optional Employment or a new placement secured by the school with one of our partner host companies throughout Europe. This WP has also the role to cover expenses with Level 7 and MSc Top-Up.
How you will learn
Course delivery & evaluation
Description of each unit
In this unit, students will gain knowledge and an understanding of traditional and emerging modes of application of project management philosophy in contemporary organisational environments. Students will also develop the skills to critically analyse and evaluate current project management practices in event organisations, and offer competent suggestions for improvements of existing event project management processes.
Course Code
7EPM
UK Credit
15
Assessment
Assignment Event management plan + Post event report
This unit aims to give students a critical understanding of the nature of operations management in travel, tourism and hospitality industries, focusing on present-day local and global customer experience developments. It also emphasises business awareness, proactive and logical thinking, research and critical analysis to help future managers make sound tactical and strategic customer experience management decisions on a local and global scale.
Course Code
7OMHT
UK Credit
15
Assessment
Written Exam
Course Code
7RMHT
UK Credit
15
Assessment
Assignment
The aim of this unit is to explore the related theories of consumer behaviour within the tourism and hospitality industries, including the management of service quality and customer satisfaction. This unit examines the relationship between marketing and customer experience management following the customers’ journey from their initial research through to post purchase behaviours and emphasizes the importance of value creation. Students will therefore develop the ability to keep abreast of the changing demands of customers and the ways in which they wish to be marketed to.
Course Code
7MCEM
UK Credit
15
Assessment
Assignment
Marketing audit & Multimedia Presentation
This unit aims to challenge the concept of strategy, its scope, purpose and outcomes, and provides a practical outline of a number of different approaches to strategic management. The unit also highlights the globalization of technologies and markets and looks at the role of strategic alliances and international collaborations in establishing and nurturing competence for the achievement of strategic advantage. Students will develop their ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each situation working on real practical situations.
Course Code
7SM
UK Credit
15
Assessment
Written Exam
Through theory, research, evidence and real-life case studies, students will develop skills to critically examine the challenges facing multinational organisations in managing their current and future work force.
Course Code
7GHRM
UK Credit
15
Assessment
Assignment
Analysis Report
This unit critically evaluates the major challenges facing tourism development in the modern world and discusses prospective solutions which have been developed to help the tourism and travel industry achieve the goal of overall sustainability. A particular emphasis is given on the role and importance of strategic thinking for the management of tourism, examining various tourism planning approaches and discussing the role of tourism planning within the context of destination development.
Course Code
7DM
UK Credit
15
Assessment
Assignment
Research Paper
The aim of this unit is to explore key accounting and finance practice and the associated decision-making tools within organisations. It covers the nature of accounting and finance tools within hospitality and tourism business environments, and considers appropriate management techniques to help identify strategic options through a wide range of business scenarios. Students will gain significant knowledge on the type of financial information that is routinely produced by organisations for internal and external use and will develop their ability to critically evaluate and interpret financial information.
Course Code
7MF
UK Credit
15
Assessment
Assignment
Case Study
The credits for all of these units amount to a total of 120 credits.
How will the dissertation/final project take place?
Who is this program for?
Recent Graduates
Recent Level 6 graduates with a business or hospitality undergraduate degree (Honours) or a CTH Level 6 Professional Diploma
Industry Professionals
Industry professionals who have experience in hospitality, looking to enhance their knowledge and gain access to higher employment positions.
Take your career to the next level
It’s no longer enough to have just a bachelor's. It just isn’t. If you want to advance in your career, you’ll find out that the competition is tougher and tougher. You must find ways to stick your head over the crowd in order to be seen. Our postgraduate program is the right place to start.Certification
On successful completion of Level 7
Level 7 Executive Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism Management, awarded by the Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality
Master of Science (MSc) in International Hospitality & Tourism Management
Coventry University London
Master of Business Administration (MBA)