Executive MBA in tourism and hospitality management

The Executive MBA in tourism and hospitality management is specially designed to enable the development of managers overseeing professionals in the hospitality sector, or who are striving to take up such a position. To achieve this mission, the MBA strives to strengthen the executive capacities of current and aspiring hospitality managers, contributing towards their professional development, while also enhancing the competitiveness and profitability of their establishments, as well as enabling postgraduates with a vocation for professional development in the sector to specialize in hospitality management. 

This program offers students the following benefits: 

• Effective management of tourism companies based on strategic plans and focused on achieving results. 
• Providing a response to the training needs of executives specializing in the tourism sector. 
• Developing the capacity for innovation and creative management of executives in tourism and hotel companies.  
• Training the future leaders of the global hospitality and tourism industry. Equipping participants with the executive skills and competences required of directors and executives in the tourism sector in order to ensure dynamic, effective and successful leadership. 
• Analysing global trends in the sector and acquiring the perspectives and strategies required to become ethical leaders of global tourism organizations. 
• Application of the Case Study Method, which puts participants in real business situations, so that they can analyses them and propose their own solutions. 

The Executive MBA in tourism and hospitality management of Ostelea Tourism Management School is designed to promote entrepreneurial spirit in projects related to hospitality, and equip professionals with the competences required to position the product and/or business on the market with the conditions needed in terms of solvency, profitability, consumer demand and competitiveness. It also aims to train specialists capable of recognizing and exploiting the opportunities offered by new technologies, social media and the internet in order to develop innovative businesses that convert the virtual and digital aspects of their projects into a true strength. 

The program applies a learning methodology based on business simulations, involving the challenge of understanding strategic planning through practice and execution within a context that is a highly realistic reflection of the real world. 

Executive training with an international vision of the tourism industry and a perspective that adapts to a changing and competitive environment. 

Over 85% of the students are international, ensuring valuable multicultural insight on the various disciplines covered on the program 

The MBA applies a real-time online methodology that enables student to combine their studies with their professional and personal lives. 

The most common professional opportunities for participants on the Executive MBA in tourism and hospitality management in are:  

• Hotel Director  
• Director of tourism service companies. 
• Operational Department Director in tourism companies: Director of Human Resources, Financial Director, Marketing Director, or Director of Operations. 
• Consultant specializing in the tourism sector 
• Entrepreneurship in the tourism sector. 

Ostelea’s Executive MBA in tourism and hospitality management is divided into modules, culminating in the Master’s Thesis:

Global Environment and Markets 

• Socio-economic context and the tourism industry. 
• Tourism marketing and commercialization in global settings. 

Human Resources Management 

• Talent management in hospitality. 
• Executive skills for hospitality organizations. 

International Company Management 

• Financial management. 
• Management of ICTs and virtual business in hospitality. 
• Risk identification, management and prevention for hospitality. 

Company internationalization 

• Strategic global management in hospitality. 
• Company internationalization. 

Master's Thesis 

The learning process of all the courses culminates and integrates in the Master’s Thesis, which consists of drafting a business plan for a tourism company, in which students have to devise the business idea, conduct market analysis, and identify the actions and strategies to be implemented, evaluating the economic and financial viability of the plan. 

Intensification week

• Accommodation Management and Revenue & Yield Management. 
• Strategic Food & Beverage Management. 
• Sustainable Tourism Management.  
• Competitiveness and Innovation in Hospitality. 
• Operations in Hospitality. 

Participants who successfully complete the program will obtain a TRIPLE QUALIFICATION: 

• Executive MBA in tourism and hospitality management, from Ostelea Tourism Management School. 
• Executive MBA in tourism and hospitality management, from EAE Business School. 
• Executive MBA in tourism and hospitality management, from the Universitat de Lleida.