MBA in Tourism and Hospitality Management

The MBA in Tourism and Hospitality Management focuses on developing executive skills and strategic competences that enable you to become the tourism professional you have always strived to be.

This program was developed along with EAE Business School, ranked in the Merco Ranking 2018 as the second most reputable school in Spain.

The MBA in Hospitality will give you the following benefits:

• International vision of the tourism industry: providing an international vision of the tourism industry, together with an adaptable perspective in a changing and competitive global environment.
• Strategy: Ensuring the effective management of tourism companies based on strategic plans and focused on achieving results.
• Needs: Providing a response to the training needs of executives specializing in the tourism sector.
• Innovation: Developing the capacity for innovation and creative management of executives in tourism and hotel companies. 
• Future Leaders: Training the future leaders of the global hospitality and tourism industry. Equipping participants with the executive skills and competences required of directors and business people in the tourism sector, in order to ensure dynamic, effective and successful leadership.
• Trends: Analysing global trends in the sector and acquiring the perspectives and strategies required to become ethical leaders of global tourism organizations.
• International Residential Program: MBA students have the option of taking an international residential program, at an additional cost, in:
  • Tourism at Saxion (Holland),
  • Finance at ESG UQAM (Montreal, Canada)
  • Cross-Cultural Marketing at Kean University (NJ, USA) .
  • Campus to Campus Program: Option of taking part of the program at Ostelea’s Madrid campus, accommodation not included.

• Executive Skills: 
  • Management Experience: The MBA program developed with EAE Business School allows students work out the key competences for managing projects effectively, Soft Skills.
  • Business Game: 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
  • Series of meetings with executives from hotel and restaurant companies, and international tourism consultants.     
  • Program for developing executive competences: Tourism Skills Development Program (TSDP).
  • Case study method: The main learning methodology applied throughout the MBA program, which places participants in real business situations so that they have to analyse them and propose their own solutions.
• Employability and Enterpreneurship: 
  • International internships in companies such as Hilton, Tundra Hotels and Melia Hotels, among others learning tourism management.
  • Students who want to set up their own business have access to the Entrepreneur Project, offering advice and guidance.
  • Employability-focused tuition: Professional Careers programs, Employability Week, Employment Forum, Graduate Programs, among other initiatives (subject to demand).
  • Doing Business in Spain Seminar: Entrepreneurs in Spain share their insight into the key factors to take into account in order to be successful and competitive in the Spanish market.
• Other Key features:
  • Seminars on Hospitality (Barcelona) and Sustainability (Madrid): 25 hours of tuition.
  • Language Seminars: students can choose between English and French (limited places: 30 hours of tuition/language.

The MBA in Tourism and Hospitality Management of Ostelea gives its students training designed to enhance employability opportunities such as:

TSDP - Tourism Skills Developement Program

An exclusive program where they will learn to develop their skills and abilities.

The TSDP consists of 55 teaching hours that includes:

• Management Skills
• Public relations
• Advanced Excel
• Turistic marketing 
• Coaching

(Limited places)

Itineraries

• Employability: 3 workshops focused on candidate selection and improvement processes.
• Entrepreneurship: through the Entrepreneurs Project where they will receive advice Career.
• Transition: 5 workshops to guide students about their professional future.

(To choose one)

Talent Tourism Week

With the presence of relevant companies in the sector that will present their offers and then interview the students who are possible candidates.

Employment Forum

Companies participate by publishing their offers online and interviewing our students.

Graduate Program

Elaborated by multinational companies (Hilton, Mandarin Oriental, Hotusa ...), whose objective is to select the most suitable candidates.

Company Meetings

Meetings between national and international companies, where students can learn the profiles most in demand in the sector.

Professional Opportunities that are most common on participant of the MBA in Tourism and Hospitality Management: 

• Hotel Director or Manager, or director of other types of tourism establishment.
• Operational Director or Manager of functional areas of tourism companies.
• Corporate Director in hotel/tourism companies in any of their functional areas.
• Director of companies operating in the tourism sector in general.
• Positions of responsibility in companies and public institutions in the sector.
• Positions in companies in sectors complementary to tourism, marketing and commercialization related to the hotel and tourism industry.
• Entrepreneur of ventures in or related to the tourism sector.
• Tourism and Hotel Consultant/Advisor.

Ostelea offers candidates scholarships that consist of financial aid with the objective of supporting our students.

Each application will be studied independently, it will be granted during the admission process and it will be communicated personally by the Admissions Committee before the formalization of the registration.

Scholarships representing 100% of the total enrollment fee will not be awarded in any case.

The economic aid will be offered in the following cases:

• Advance reservation of place.
• Adequacy of the profile to the requirements of each program.
• Former students of the school. In this case, a 25% discount will be applied to the enrollment.