International Hospitality Management
Are you dreaming of an international career in the hospitality industry?
This is a top-up programme intended for graduates of Academy Profession Degree Programmes in Marketing Management or Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management. The top-up programme earns you a bachelor's degree in International Hospitality Mangement with only 1½ years of additional study.
The programme will provide you with the competences to work in day-to-day operations, development, administration and management in an international work environment in the hospitality industry. A specialisation period will allow you to focus more deeply on either tourism, the hotel and restaurant industry or experience economy. You will learn about management, strategy, economics, cultural awareness and customer relations. You will be provided with the tools to develop new markets and concepts, achieve an understanding of a company’s strategic challenges as well as the ability to handle the practical implementation and operation of a company strategy. Danish and international students study together from the second semester, giving you valuable intercultural competences as well as an international network.
As a Bachelor of International Hospitality Management, you may find employment as resort manager, marketing coordinator, destination manager, or sales manager etc.
Study Contents
- The company and its network
- Strategic management
- Internship
- Internationalization / Culture analysis
- Management/ economics
- Development perspective
- Planning and implementation
- World perspective
- Market and society
- Internal perspective
The following AP Degrees will give you direct entrance:
- Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management
- Marketing Management
Students with other educational background
Students with a passed a relevant degree with 120 ECTS-points can apply for admission provided they have made an Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition - PLAR (known as ‘IKV’ in Danish) resulting in a positive result.
An Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition gives you an individual assessment of your collected knowledge, skills and competencies. The assessment will be used in relation to the admission requirements on the study programme that you want to apply to. Here, you can read more about Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition.
The service sector is a wide-ranging industry with various subcategories
This means that your future employer, job title and work duties may also vary greatly depending on your efforts and on how you specialise in terms of your work placement, your assignments, your network etc. during your time of study at the International Hospitality Management programme.
Possible job titles
There are numerous possible job titles, which of course depend on your individual profile. Your individual profile is a combination of:
- Your subject knowledge, that is, the degree to which you master the knowledge acquired through studies.
- Your work experience, including your work placement.
- Your personal competencies.
- Other experience and competencies.
During your time of study, you will acquire knowledge of management, economics and strategy, among many other things, which will give you the skills to handle high-level duties in the hospitality industry. Some will be able to take up a position as manager or mid-level manager immediately after graduation, while others may need to gain more experience in order to hold a position as manager or middle manager – this will depend on your individual profile.
With this in mind, your future job title could be:
- Marketing coordinator
- Marketing assistant
- Hotel manager
- Sales manager
- Sales consultant
- Event manager
- Event coordinator
- Travel agency employee
- Travel agency manager
- Restaurant manager
- Yield manager
- Self-employed
- Guest relations manager
- Reception desk manager
- Booking manager
- HR manager
- HR consultant
- HR coordinator
- Sales coordinator
- Food and Beverage manager
- Contract manager
- Concept developer
- Conference coordinator
- Project manager
- Activity manager
- Tourist agency worker
- Communications worker
- Guest services worker
- Rooms division manager
