Relevant content from industry superstars
You’ll learn from the absolute best. From real-world insights from a worldwide hotel GM to talking property acquisition with a multinational CFO, you’ll gain a global view every step of the way.
This MBA is purpose built by Torrens University Australia with today’s hotel industry leaders to support tomorrow’s rising stars
Study 100% online anytime
Study where and when works best for you – anywhere, anytime.
Accelerate your career without interruption
There’s no need to take time of work or travel to a campus. Plus you’ll find yourself immediately applying the insights and information you gain to your current role.
Subjects designed as industry projects
You’re free to design your MBA to boost you current role and sets you up for your ultimate career future.
You can go for it now and study all 13 subjects in the order that suits you and graduate with an MBA in International Hotel Leadership. Or choose a standalone subject to support a real-world project you’re managing now, and build on that later to complete your MBA. Taking a break’s fine; you can pick up where you left off at any time studying how and when you like – anywhere in the world.
First impressions count. Though your first days in a new role will seem like a complete whirlwind, they provide a critical window for you to set the tone and assert yourself as the kind of leader you really want to be. In this short course, you’ll discover the best way for you to approach your first 90 days, exploring various leadership styles and approaches – and how to tailor them to your new team.
Featured Industry Leaders
Jan Smits – CEO, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Asia, Middle East, Africa
The Hospitality industry isn’t immune to the evolution of digital technology and neither is society. We are at a unique point in history where we are able to inspire two-way conversations with customers, to gain their engagement and advocacy. As part of this short course, you’ll learn more about the opportunities presented by this rapid shift in digital technology, and how it has forever altered the way hotels communicate with their audiences. You will also learn about the challenges of managing a Hotel brand and how rich and compelling content marketing, combined with omnichannel distribution, are integral to brand engagement.
Featured Industry Leaders
Amanda Cottome – Group Director Brand Experience & Culture, Ovolo Hotels
Do you lead the way when it comes to creating the best experiences possible for your guests? Service innovation is a rapidly expanding area of practice and crucial source of competitive differentiation. In this course, you’ll learn about design thinking, and how it can be used to bring together key stakeholders to collaborate and formulate innovative approaches to the overall guest experience. You’ll take an entrepreneurial approach to customer service challenges and present fresh solutions to create guest experiences that surprise, delight, and surpass expectations.
Featured Industry Leaders
James Walkden – Area Director Operations Australia, New Zealand & Pacific, Marriot International
As a leader in a hotel environment, you’ll be measured on your ability to optimise revenue. Being able to think on your feet is a given, but there’s a science to it too. During this course, discover how to make strategic, proactive decisions thanks to input from experts like Nikita Beresnev, Group Director of Revenue with Nesuto Hotels. Learn to use various tools to understand customer demand, interpret financial data and, most importantly, increase revenue.
Featured Industry Leaders
Nikita Beresnev, Group Director of Revenue with Nesuto Hotels
Let’s be honest. Hotel businesses are ultimately focused on one thing – growth. Influencing and negotiating investments will be critical to your success as a leader. In this course, you’ll gain a full understanding of the investment process and insight into identifying the most lucrative opportunities. Discover how to get the best outcomes and maximum ROI to fit with your corporate strategy, with experts like Mehran Mossadegh, Founder & Managing Director of the aptly named NegotiationWise.
Featured Industry Leaders
Raphael Antonini – Director, Hotel Investments, Crystalbrook Collection.
Your online presence is the most powerful tool in your arsenal for generating demand in today’s competitive hotel environment. Prospective customers have access to infinite resources about brands, and it’s your job to understand their needs and capture their attention. In conjunction with Lance Batty, Senior Manager-Account Management Airline Customer Unit, Amadeus, this course will help you appreciate online behaviour and expose you to an array of digital business resources.
Featured Industry Leaders
Lance Batty, Senior Manager-Account Management Airline Customer Unit, Amadeus.
Organisational change is a reality that you’ll face at all levels of the business. A true leader understands the complexities associated, from technical through to human challenges. In this course, you’ll learn how to meticulously analyse and execute changes necessary to succeed. Discover how to appropriately respond to shifts in the business environment from Tim Mayoh, Development Manager, Choice Hotels.
Featured Industry Leaders
Tim Mayoh, Development Manager, Choice Hotels.
Interested in making the world a better place? You’re not alone. These days, it’s rare to find businesses which aren’t open to helping to drive change and address societal issues. In this short course, you’ll build on your knowledge and follow in the footsteps of top social entrepreneurs. We’ll empower you to develop creative solutions to address social and environmental problems and to see social entrepreneurship as a force for positive change.
Key Information
Leading Corporate Social Responsibility to Drive Business Performance & Social Impact
Do you know what to do in a crisis? Extreme circumstances can make or break a leader, and can be very testing indeed. In times of uncertainty and even danger, hotel professionals ought to demonstrate appropriate leadership knowledge and skills. You’ll focus on leadership under intense pressure – whether in response to crisis, global issues or ethical dilemmas. By the end, you’ll have explored the facets of working with a Crisis Management team and executing a Crisis Management plan.
International markets present significant opportunities, but only to those companies who know what they’re doing. To the untrained eye, it may even be surprising which countries should be targeted. In this subject, you’ll see for yourself how leaders make the right decisions on emerging marketing to encourage growth. Better still, you’ll walk away with a blueprint for researching and evaluating markets, setting clear and realistic goals and growing your business for the long term.
Unfamiliar with intrapreneurship? You’ll learn to use the innovation typically associated with entrepreneurial start-ups within your bigger business, by identifying new opportunities and redirecting resources to them. Discover how best to respond to, and even out-manoeuvre your competition while implementing the most effective policies to deal with new challenges. During this course, learn how to drive results via incubation and disruption, taking guidance from entrepreneurial mindsets that are currently leading the pack.
Coaching as a tool is considered to be an integral strategy for aspiring hotel leaders. Coaching skills are particularly valuable for leaders working in volatile, emergent and ambiguous contexts where new approaches are required to meet unique challenges. A major focus for this project is exploring coaching practice and how they equip executives to lead their teams effectively. This project gives the students the knowledge and foundation for becoming an executive coach and instructs them on how to help others understand, apply, and integrate various metrics and results into their respective lives and roles.
The Hotel Leadership Capstone Project will provides you with the opportunity to apply the analytical and theoretical skills developed in the program to an online hotel-based simulation project. This short course will provides an unrivalled opportunity to demonstrate your ability to apply the management and leadership skills you’ve learned so far, in addition to drawing on the considerable experience acquired in your career. Think you’ve got what it takes?
*This subject is core to the MBA and we encourage you to study this module first
**This subject is your capstone subject and is core to the MBA
Your career. Your MBA. Your way.
Education is a personal journey. We believe that to get the most out of an individual learning program, it must be flexible. Our range of short courses in International Hotel Leadership allow you to customise your learning plan and focus on the areas that are most important to your own career development.
Accredited Subjects can stand alone or combine towards a formal qualification in International Hotel Leadership.
Build to a Post Graduate Certificate (4 x 6-week accredited subjects), Graduate Diploma (8×6-week accredited subjects) or a full MBA (12 x 6-week accredited subjects).
What you learn, and when you learn it, is totally up to you.
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Professional development for you leaders
Every course in the MBA in International Hotel Leadership is made for managers who are ready to step-up in their careers.
This strategic offering will aid your recruitment and retention while increasing the motivation, knowledge, skills and performance of your middle management team.
Your graduates will be well equipped for senior leadership positions, allowing you to promote from within.
Qualifying for your MBA
Here’s how to qualify. And if you don’t have a degree, don’t worry: there’s a strong likelihood your work and experience will be enough to get you in.
| Program | Age | English Language Proficiency | Qualification |
| Single Subject | 21+ | 6.5 IELTS(Academic) with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent | 3 years+ managerial/supervisory work experience |
| Graduate Certificate | 21+ | 6.5 IELTS(Academic) with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent | 3 years+ managerial/supervisory work |
| Graduate Diploma | 21+ | 6.5 IELTS(Academic) with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent | 3 years+ managerial/supervisory work |
| MBA | 21+ | 6.5 IELTS(Academic) with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent | Relevant Undergraduate degree and 3+ years managerial/ supervisory work |
Gain much more than an MBA
Your MBA in International Hotel Leadership is more than a qualification.
The Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School (BMIHMS) at Torrens University Australia is the Number One Hotel Management School in Asia-Pacific (Kantar 2020).
BMIHMS has been providing internationally recognised hospitality and business degree courses for over 25 years. The school is highly respected across the global hospitality, hotel and event management industries. BMIHMS provide students with more than an education; it gives students a pathway to career progression and continued success.
Our programs help students progress their careers into senior management and hotel leadership positions – connecting with our extensive alumni network and international industry connections.
