MBA (Tourism and Hospitality Management)

Maritime Greenwich College, with the Tourism Institute Australia (TIA), offers students from all around the world the opportunity to come to London to study the TIA MBA specialising in Tourism and Hospitality Management.
TIA is based in Adelaide, South Australia and is accredited by the South Australian Government under the Australian Qualifications Framework to award undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

COURSE OVERVIEW The MBA (ie Master of Business Administration) is one of the world's best known and most widely recognised postgraduate degrees. In recent years the MBA has become the foremost academic qualification for managers. The TIA MBA (Tourism and Hospitality Management) provides a good understanding of the language and structure of tourism and hospitality management. The subjects in this course are designed to provide a sophisticated body of knowledge by integrating critical strategies and techniques with the principles of tourism and hospitality management. The TIA MBA (Tourism and Hospitality Management) specialisation will prepare you for tourism and hospitality management challenges in both the national and international arena. The course covers 12 subjects integrating management, business and tourism and hospitality knowledge. There are three main benefits to students on completion of the TIA MBA (Tourism and Hospitality Management):

• Successful MBA graduates contribute constructive and creative input through their ability to implement decisions based on their improved understanding of business, tourism and hospitality management strategies.

• The integrated nature of the course allows a holistic appreciation that is critical to the achievement of a sustainable competitive position in today's changing business, tourism and hospitality environment.

• Through the MBA (Tourism and Hospitality Management), students will gain a valuable piece of research that can be tailored to students' specific tourism, hospitality and business career goals and objectives.

Furthermore, upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

• Critically appraise a range of relevant practical tourism and hospitality management knowledge, and apply it to tourism and hospitality management problems.

• Demonstrate proficiency in the analysis and interpretation of a wide range of business data.

• Synthesize knowledge from across a range of business disciplines, and apply it to the analysis of complex tourism and hospitality management issues.

• Demonstrate the key personal and inter-personal skills required for effective management and implementation of solutions at all levels inside and outside students' organisations.

• Demonstrate clarity of problem definition and scope.
  

Mode: Full-Time (12-18 months) 15-21 hrs a week
Commencement: September, January and July of every year

COURSE CONTENT
The current subjects for the TIA MBA (Tourism and Hospitality Management) are as follows:

SUBJECT DESCRIPTIONS

Entrepreneurship
The objective of the subject is to provide participants with an in-depth knowledge of the concept of entrepreneurship in the context of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial organisations and entrepreneurial countries.

Leadership
This subject will provide the participants with a systematic study of how individuals and groups behave within an organisational setting and the impact of leadership on this behaviour.

Strategic Management
The aim of this subject is to provide the participant with an in-depth knowledge of the principles and practice of corporate strategy formulation built around a systematic approach to strategic management.

Strategic Marketing
This subject is designed to provide participants with an in-depth knowledge of the marketing concepts and the major principles, techniques and theories relating to the strategic practice of marketing, including development and implementation of competitive marketing strategies.

Strategic Human Resource Management
This subject provides an understanding of the formal relationship between the employer and employee and of the techniques and methods aimed at making the relationship more effective.

Strategic Legal and Social Issues
The objective of this subject is to provide participants with an appreciation of and the capacity to deal with strategic issues arising in governance, ethical, legal and social matters confronting business operations.

Strategic Operations Issues
The aim of this subject is to provide participants with an in-depth knowledge of strategic issues that are critical for the operations of an organisation, to the end that the operations may become more efficient and effective.

Strategic Finance Issues
The subject is designed to prepare participants for the effective and efficient planning and management of financial and resource requirements and targets.

Strategic Hotel Management Issues
The subject examines hotel management issues in the context of international changes and developments that have a bearing on the hospitality and tourism industry.

Strategic Resort Management Issues
The subject examines strategic resort management issues in the context of recreational amenities, resort marketing and operations, resort guest activities and the future of resorts in the context of the changing environment.

Event Management
This subject introduces to participants the principles, practice, and process of event management including strategic and shareholder issues in event management, project management, marketing and public relations.

Tourism and Hospitality Management Project
The objective of this subject is to enable participants to undertake a major tourism and hospitality management project, using their knowledge of case study research as a method.

ASSESSMENT
For each module (except the Tourism and Hospitality Management Project, for which the students will be required to undertake a major assignment), students will be required to complete an assignment and an examination. The assignment is worth 20% and the exam is worth 80% of the overall grade for the subject. The students must pass the examination to pass the subject.

Upon successful completion of the 4 subject Graduate Certificate in Management, each applicant may proceed to the 4 subject Graduate Diploma in Management, Upon successful completion of the 4 subject Graduate Diploma in Management, each applicant may proceed to the final 4 subjects of the MBA.

ENTRY CRITERIA
Any applicant who wishes to undertake the MBA Course must satisfy all of the following entry criteria:

English Requirements
Where the applicant's medium of instruction (at a tertiary level) was not in English, the applicant must have obtained:

Applicants Must Satisfy Either (a) or (b)
(a) For Direct Entry

The applicant must have:

1. an acceptable bachelors degree or a relevant professional qualification conducted at a standard equivalent to a bachelors degree under the Australian Qualifications Framework; and
2. relevant work experience.

Applicants who do not satisfy the above entry criteria will still be eligible to undertake the MBA Course but on a stage-by-stage basis. Each of these applicants may enrol in the Graduate Certificate in Management course (the first stage of the MBA Course) provided each applicant satisfies all of the below criteria.
(b) For Stage by Stage Entry
The applicant must have either:

1. a qualification deemed equivalent to an Advanced Diploma under the Australian Qualifications Framework;
2. relevant specialised professional or technical qualifications deemed acceptable to TIA's Registrar; or
3. a minimum of 3 years verifiable experience and learning deemed relevant to course by TIA's s Registrar.