MBA Specialism in Hospitality Management

Programme Overview

This module aims to equip hospitality provision employees with the attitudes, skills, and behaviours needed to manage the complex and challenging relationship between temporary visitors to a destination and those who are responsible for caring for them. Temporary visitors are defined as individuals who spend 24 hours or more in a location outside of their normal residence; and care of those visitors is provided by organisations that provide accommodation, food and beverage, and activity products and services. 

Programme Overview

This module equips current and future leaders in the global world of hospitality management with insight into the multi-faceted domains that make up the industry. This new knowledge will allow for the formation of more precise planning in plotting their own future career path and business planning, possibly within in their existing domain, or probably with a newly formed international perspective and knowledge of how other sectors of the industry operate. It will cover core fundamentals of the industry make-up, providing an insight into both corporate philosophies and practices, as well as how they may be transformed into operational implications. The module concludes with a brief discussion on how these philosophies and practices may influence future career development.

Programme Overview

This module aims to equip hospitality managers with the skills and knowledge to understand and apply the principles of managing yield from resources and space in the hospitality sector including accommodation, food and beverage and meeting and events. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the Yield and Revenue Management function within a hospitality organisation using tools and techniques to improve and evaluate the overall profitability of the operation. The module will focus on understanding the drivers for improving both the top line and the bottom line with tools and techniques specific to the hospitality sector.