Graduate Diploma in Hotel Management

If you already hold a recognized undergraduate degree, this Graduate Diploma is your perfect opportunity to gain an important business qualification.

The Graduate Diploma in Hotel Management is designed for aspiring individuals seeking to achieve their management potential and to standout from the crowd. With its blend of practical learning, management theory and strategy, the program builds on your existing skills and opens up new career possibilities. The 200-hour industrial internship is a key feature of this qualification and enables you to apply your newly-acquired knowledge to areal-life situation whilst also gaining valuable work experience that counts towards your degree! It also allows you to forge crucial contacts and to develop peer networks which will boost your employment prospects. Our experienced staff will help to place you at one of the many exciting internship locations we have available; opportunities exist both within New Zealand and throughout the world and range from small, family-run hotels to five-star,luxury resorts.

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Duration: One year full-time

Delivery: On campus with a 200-hour, or three-month credit-bearing internship undertaken in your final study block.

Start: January, June and August

Curriculum

You must complete three papers at Level 6, two papers at Level 7 and a 45-credit industry project.

LEVEL 6

Facilities Management

Develop an understanding of facilities management within the hotel industry. Examine and evaluate key functions and responsibilities in the management and operation of specialized facilities, property and inventories.

Rooms Division Operations Management

Gain the skills and knowledge to develop, implement and monitor management planning in the operations of the front office and housekeeping division. Explore and evaluate the current management practice required by the sector. Make the appropriate management responses to changes in the operating environments through the analysis of each of the fundamental management issues used in a quality accommodation services operation.

Services Marketing Management

Gain an understanding of the roles, functions and application of services marketing management within contemporary New Zealand organisations.Explore the key resources, skills, techniques, attitudes and ethics required to operate successfully in a range of service environments.

LEVEL 7

Contemporary Issues in the Hotel Industry

Undertake an in-depth analysis of the up-to-date issues that impact on modern management practices within the hotel industry. This course will build on the knowledge and skills you have developed in the earlier papers which introduced you to the basics of marketing and management.

Strategic Management

Gain an understanding of the application of strategic management and the management processes aimed at improving organisational effectiveness by means of a systematic set of strategic goals, plans and actions. Analyse and evaluate the use of strategic management concepts and problems within business,through research of strategic analysis, choice and the implementation of various management practices and philosophies.

For more information send an email across info@vge.co.in with the program name.