Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism Management
Enhance your understanding of the challenges faced by modern hospitality and tourism managers. Learn alongside a group of global professionals with different backgrounds and experiences to build your knowledge of contemporary theory and practice in the industry.


Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism Management
Our Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism is designed for aspiring industry leaders in the sector around the world. The programme combines academic study and real-world business experience to help you develop the skills needed to carve successful careers within Hospitality and Tourism.
The Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism Management is for management-level students who want to advance their leadership, industry and management skills.
Enhance your understanding of the challenges faced by modern hospitality and tourism managers. Build your knowledge of contemporary theory and practice in the industry. Learn alongside a multidisciplinary group of global professionals with different backgrounds and experiences - gain real-life, world-spanning insights into current trends and issues in hospitality and tourism.
Key Facts
Awarding University
University of Gibraltar
Duration
18 months
Commitment
20 hours/per week
Format
100% Online
Class Size
15-20
Career Stage
Middle management
Application Deadline
5th February 2021
Fees
£7500 (payment plans available)
Next Intake
March 2021 Module dates
Why Study an Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism Management?
This Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism Management for mid-level managers who want to step up and stand out. If you can’t stop learning and want to stay at the top of your game, this course will help you:
Transform Your Career
45% of students who successfully complete an EMBA receive a pay rise.
Opportunity to move into a higher-level post within your current employment or professional area.
Set up your own business and venture into self-employment.
Increase Your Confidence
Step up and stand out by demonstrating to employers your capability and self-motivation to learn at a higher level.
Stay at the top of your game by gaining a deeper understanding of management and business.
Boost Your Knowledge
Across the board - Intellectual skills, Practical skills, Transferable skills.
Advance your existing leadership, industry and management experience in the context of business management.
Who is an Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism Management for?
This Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism Management has been designed for mid-level managers who want to step up and stand out. If you can’t stop learning and want to stay at the top of your game, this course will help you:
We like students who challenge the status quo, who wake up ambitious and love working with other professionals.
It will provide students with:
- Contemporary knowledge and understanding of management theory and practice in the context of global hospitality and tourism management and practice.
- Theoretical and applied perspectives.
- The ability to apply knowledge and skills in hospitality and tourism management to various organisations.
How Will I Learn?
We take an andragogical approach to learning. The Programme is entirely online with no fixed lecture or class times and can fit around your other work and life commitments. It is totally flexible and all we require is that you dedicate around 20 hours a week to your study - what hours these are is totally up to you.
This means the 18-month course is self-directed with guidance from your experienced tutor. This groundbreaking style of learning is inspired by real-life scenarios which you will contribute from your own experience.
You will challenge other students and be challenged. We do not use pedagogical methods (where a student relies entirely on a teacher).
- Business experience is built upon real-life scenarios and challenges therefore you will develop skills such as leadership, adaptability, critical thinking and self-reflection.
- You will participate in a combination of module activities that may be group and/or individual based, dependent on the module. This usually occurs within multidisciplinary groups of 15-20 students.
These innovative teaching methods will allow you to seamlessly translate your studies into your everyday challenges.
Our dedicated Student Support Team is also available to help with any problems you may face. From navigating our online platform to advising you on deadlines, our team can assist with any questions or challenges you may have along the way.
Curriculum
The full Online Executive MBA in Hospitality and Tourism Management will be formed of six 20 credit modules (120 credits in total) and a 60 credit student /organisation specific research/capstone project. This is an 18-month programme.
Module 1: Marketing Management (20 credits)
Module Aims
The module aims to introduce students to the principles and practices of marketing. It engages students in the selection and application of relevant marketing theories, conceptual tools and models to assist them in interpreting and solving marketing problems and presenting novel applications of marketing to improve the organisation's value propositions. Primarily it seeks to develop students’ capabilities to effectively direct and manage an organisation's marketing function.
Module Summary
- Understanding marketing management
- Developing marketing strategies and plans
- Creating customer value, satisfaction, and loyalty
- Analysing consumer and business markets
- Identifying market segments and targets
- Creating brand equity and Crafting the brand positioning
- Marketing through the life cycle
- Consumer behaviour
- Relationships loyalty and co-creation
- Service dominant logic
- Management of the original and extended marketing mix
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate an organisation's management of its marketing function and develop informed plans to improve it.
- Critically reflect upon the application of rapidly emerging marketing practices by various organisations.
Module 2: Leadership and Organisational Behaviour (20 credits)
Module Aims
The aim of the module is to introduce you to the nature and functioning of organisations and the behaviour of individuals and groups within them. It seeks to encourage you to use this knowledge to inform and improve your leadership and management skills and practices.
Module Summary
- The individual at work
- Motivation, satisfaction and productivity
- Group behaviour and leadership
- Power, authority and conflict in organisations
- Organisational structure and design
- Organisational culture
- Organisational change
- Wellbeing
- Employee engagement
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate relevant theories and empirical evidence relating to organisational behaviour.
- Critically appraise and evaluate different strategies for management and leadership.
Module 3: Financial Management (20 credits)
Module Aims
This module aims to develop your understanding and interpretation of sound financial management to almost all business decisions in order to understand the impact of this function on the principles and practices of executive management decision making.
Module Summary
- The terminology of accounting and the structure and content of the main financial statements used by business organisations.
- The role and use of different financial statements.
- The use of management accounting techniques for business planning and decision making.
- Sources of business finance and the role of financial information in the financing of a business.
- Business budgeting and budgetary control.
- The use of investment appraisal techniques in retail management.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate, present and prepare financial information in a clear accurate way.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the use of financial information for management decision making and control.
Module 4: Strategic Management (20 credits)
Module Aims
The module aims to develop your understanding and application of the principles, practices, models and tools called upon to ensure a holistic, responsible approach to strategic management. It engages students in the selection and application of relevant conceptual tools and models to assist them in interpreting both the business environment and the organisation's resource base to solve problems and presenting novel, sustainable business level strategies.
Module Summary
- Strategic management philosophies and schools of thought
- Business Environment Analysis
- Competitive positioning / rivalry
- Core Competencies / Resource Based Strategies
- Generic Business Strategies
- Strategies for growth / sustainability
- Stakeholder engagement / positioning
- Value chain analysis
- Strategic Change
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate an organisation's management of its approach to strategic function and develop informed plans to improve it.
- Diagnose strategic opportunities or problems and critically evaluate strategic choices and viable strategic options to assist them
Module 5: Tourism Management (20 credits)
Module Aims
The module aims to:
- develop critical understanding and application of how management theories and practices integrate for the effective running and development of tourism organisations.
Module Summary
- Conceptualising and defining ‘Today’s Tourism’
- Key principles of managing tourism business
- Managing the functional areas of tourism
- Managing operational resources in tourism
- Marketing principles within tourism
- HRM and service delivery
- Designing and developing tourist attractions
- The public sector and tourism
- Tourism ethics and sustainability
- Managing contemporary issues and disruptions in the tourism sector
- Technology influence and operations in tourism
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate the role of management theory in advancing tourism practices
- Critically evaluate mechanisms to help manage an emerging theme in the tourism industry.
Module 6: Contemporary Hospitality Management (20 credits)
Module Aims
The module aims to:
- develop a critical understanding of what it takes to be a successful hospitality manager.
- develop an in depth understanding and critically evaluate management theory and contemporary practice in the sector
Module Summary
- Established and Contemporary issues in Hospitality Management
- Consumer behaviour and relationship management
- Human Resource implications and management
- Financial issues
- Uncertainty, risk and conflict
- Sustainability in hospitality and tourism
- E-Hospitality and technology
- Local / national/ and international aspects
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate the principles and methods of appropriate management activities to the hospitality industry
- Critically evaluate the complexity of the global hospitality industry to help inform management decision making.
Final Assessment: Capstone Project (60 credits)
Module Aims
The aim of this module is to consolidate students learning acquired through their executive MBA programme into a single hospitality and tourism management capstone project. Students will carry out an independent study on a hospitality and tourism management topic of their choice. They will have the opportunity to apply the comprehensive theoretical knowledge, understanding and skills that they obtained throughout the executive MBA to an area of marketing within either their own workplace setting or a company of their choosing.
Module Summary
- Recap the key learning outcomes of the module they have studied
- Evaluate suitable collection, analysis and interpretation of different types of data and evidence
- Determine effective / evidence based decision making in organisations for business case development
- Developing a suitable executive hospitality and tourism management capstone project proposal
- Producing a capstone project report
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Synthesise knowledge gained during executive MBA Studies and apply these in solving specific hospitality and tourism management problems.
- Develop conceptual understanding of hospitality and tourism management theory and constructs in a way that facilitates systematic search, justification and evaluation of competing courses of action.
- Critically evaluate information and data (evidence) to inform marketing management decisions.
- Apply the principles and practices of hospitality and tourism management to solve a specific management problem or develop new opportunities for growth.
Assessment Methods
There are three components of assessment to assess the learning outcomes of each taught module. These test different elements of learning including critical analysis, management skills, professional reflection and independent / community of practice based study.
Scenarios and discussion
Scenarios reflective of day-to-day work situations will be presented for students to consider and answer every week.Students critically discuss the concepts within their online group discussion forum facilitated throughout the module by their tutor and marked by them at the end of the module.
Students learn by finding relevant literature, reading and critically appraising it; discussing it within the discussion forum and applying it critically to real world examples and your own practice. The content of the scenario is based on the learning outcomes for the module.
The scenarios, reflective portfolio and the group work is carried on as the module progresses which ensures engagement throughout the module.
Reflective Practice
The online learning portfolio requires students to record and critically reflect on their learning. Reflection is an important aspect of the programme since the business executive/manager will be able to spend time considering how their practice compares to the themes being discussed in the module. The tutor provides feedback weekly and marks it at the end of the module.
Module activity
At the beginning of each module, students are presented with a module assignment. The module activity may take the form of an individual piece of work such as an essay on a relevant topic or may be a group activity such as the creation of a marketing plan.
Entry requirements
Our digital doors are open to both local and international students from diverse educational and social backgrounds. We offer no international surcharge and believe having a multi-disciplinary and multi-national cohort is best for student development. Typically, applicants for the Hospitality and Tourism Management MBA will:
Course Fees
Fee payments may be made via the following options:
Date | Instalments |
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Deposit payable on acceptance† | £836 |
1st May 2021 | £833 |
1st July 2021 | £833 |
1st September 2021 | £833 |
1st November 2021 | £833 |
1st January 2022 | £833 |
1st March 2022 | £833 |
1st May 2022 | £833 |
1st July 2022 | £833 |
† Deposits are non-refundable