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Are you ready to elevate your career to the highest levels of the global hospitality industry? Do you dream of leading world-class hotels, resorts, or hospitality enterprises? At Le Cordon Bleu Australia, we turn that ambition into achievement. Our Master of International Hospitality Management is a postgraduate program designed to propel you into senior leadership positions within the dynamic and fast-paced global hospitality sector.
This comprehensive degree provides you with the advanced knowledge and strategic capabilities required to excel in high-level roles across the hospitality industry. You will gain a deep understanding of international hospitality trends, develop strong leadership and management capabilities, and cultivate valuable global networks that will serve you throughout your career. Our program emphasises practical application through real-world case studies, industry projects, and immersive work placements.
Curious to see if this is your path? Request the full program brochure and start imagining your future as a business leader.
The Master of International Hospitality Management is a postgraduate degree designed for aspiring and current hospitality professionals who want to fast-track their careers into senior management and executive roles. This dynamic program combines advanced theoretical knowledge with practical application, equipping you with the strategic thinking and leadership skills needed to navigate the complexities of the global hospitality industry.
This is a comprehensive, hands-on program designed to build your expertise from the ground up. The program includes a six-month work placement, allowing you to apply your learning in a real-world hospitality environment. The qualification provides the advanced skills and knowledge required to work as a senior manager in hotels, resorts, event management companies, and other hospitality enterprises across Australia and around the world.
Structured learning: Progress through two years of full-time study, including a six-month work placement, that builds foundational knowledge and culminates in applied management projects.
Hands-on training: Master hospitality management concepts through practical workshops, case studies, and theory sessions, with a strong emphasis on real-world application.
Real-world experience: Apply your skills during a six-month work placement, gaining invaluable industry experience and professional networks.
Global perspective: Develop a deep understanding of international hospitality trends and the ability to operate effectively in diverse cultural contexts.
Le Cordon Bleu expertise: Benefit from our world-renowned reputation in culinary and hospitality education, blending classical techniques with modern business innovation.
Le Cordon Bleu is a global leader in culinary and hospitality education, renowned for blending classical techniques with modern business innovation. Our Master of International Hospitality Management combines time-honoured principles with practical, industry-focused training to prepare you for a successful career at the highest levels of the hospitality world.
How you will learn.
The program is delivered over 2 years of full-time study, including a six-month work placement.
You will study on-campus at our Adelaide campus at TAFE SA, Regency Park, with a blend of face-to-face and online learning.
You will progress through two distinct study years, each with a blend of core hospitality management subjects and practical experiences.
While the program is intensive, the structured progression allows you to build your skills and confidence step by step, with support from world-class academics and industry professionals throughout your journey.
Each year is broken down into practical and theory modules, including lectures, tutorials, workshops, and knowledge-based assessments.
Teaching staff guide your learning, run practical classes, and provide personalised feedback to help you refine your techniques.
Practical workshops and industry placements take place regularly, allowing you to apply what you have learned in a real business environment, with additional consultation time available to address any questions or challenges.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Master hospitality design and service quality: Learn to apply key concepts, principles, and frameworks to make informed decisions on the design features of the hospitality experience, including facilities. Understand how to strategically manage a service-oriented organisation to ensure effective quality management and the delivery of service excellence.
Navigate the global business environment: Equip yourself with an understanding of the multiple factors in the international business environment, assess business opportunities in foreign markets, and build international business strategies for organisations.
Lead people and manage performance: Examine human behaviour in organisations with a focus on the workplace, and understand how an in-depth knowledge of organisational behaviour facilitates the effective management of people.
Apply accounting and marketing principles: Gain a working knowledge of accounting to support managerial decision-making and understand modern marketing management principles to make major marketing decisions.
Manage hospitality in an international context: Explore the key factors and trends that influence hospitality managers' decision-making in international markets and operations.
Conduct research for business decision making: Develop an understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods to assist effective business decision-making.
Develop strategic management capabilities: Build the capabilities that allow an organisation to create value for customers, shareholders, and society while operating in competitive markets.
Manage and apply hospitality projects: Initiate and plan projects in the hospitality industry and integrate and apply your knowledge to a simulation-based hospitality environment.
Apply your learning in a real-world hospitality environment: Complete two work-integrated learning units that provide a professionally supervised work experience in the hospitality, tourism, and related sectors.
Every skill you learn is designed to build your confidence and prepare you for a successful and rewarding career in senior hospitality management. Book a campus tour today and experience our teaching facilities for yourself.
Intakes: January & August
CRICOS Code: 088614J
Tuition Fees (over 2 years): AU$44,992 for Australian students. AU$54,550 for international students
Duration: 2 years (including a six-month work placement)
Study Load: Full-time. Part-time available for domestic students
Location: Adelaide Campus (Regency Park)
Age: 18
English Proficiency: 6.5 Academic IELTS with no band score below 6
Academic Requirements: Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent as assessed by a qualification recognition service OR 3 years’ relevant work experience at supervisory or management level.
Do you have a fire in your belly for hospitality and ambition to match? This course is designed for professionals like you. Whether you want to become a General Manager of a luxury hotel, lead a global hospitality brand, or launch your own hospitality venture, this qualification gives you the foundation to make it happen.
You will gain the advanced skills and industry knowledge needed to lead a team, create innovative strategies, and build a successful hospitality career. If you are ready to demonstrate to employers your commitment to becoming an elite achiever, this is where your leadership journey begins.
Talk to an education expert today to see if your goals align with what this course offers.
CAREER OUTCOME
General Manager
Business Development Manager
Rooms Division Manager
Events Manager
Human Resources Manager
Hotel Finance Manager
Sales and Marketing Manager
Corporate Hospitality Manager
*Study plan subject to changes
YEAR 1: ON-CAMPUS/ONLINE (3 TRIMESTERS)
UNITS
The purpose of this unit is to provide students with an overview of trends in hospitality design as well as key concepts, principles, frameworks, and practices to communicate, and participate in making decision with technical and non-technical audiences on the design features of the hospitality experience, including facilities.
The purpose of this unit is to enable students to understand how to strategically manage a service orientated organisation to ensure effective quality management and the delivery of service excellence. The unit examines methodologies to meet the wishes and requirements of guests whilst simultaneously meeting organisational objectives. It further examines the change process and instruments for measuring and adapting the effectiveness of the service process.
The purpose of this unit is to equip students with an understanding of the multiple factors in the international business environment, the business opportunities in foreign markets, the skills to assess such opportunities and the ability to build international business strategies for organisations wanting to compete in international business environments.
This unit examines human behaviour in organisations with a specific focus on the workplace. The unit examines the ways in which an understanding of organisational behaviour is necessary to, and facilitates the management of, people at work.
Accounting is a systematic method of compiling and processing information about business activity. It is one part of the information-collecting system that a business or any organisation involved in financial transactions needs to operate. This unit provides a brief overview of the accounting material needed to support managers in the making of decisions, combining the necessary amount of financial accounting knowledge to serve as a foundation for using managerial accounting techniques.
The purpose of this unit is to equip students with an understanding of the principles of modern marketing management and skills to apply these principles in real world organisational contexts. Students will be equipped to make major marketing decisions. The unit provides a foundation to effectively manage a marketing function and to establish an organisation’s future marketing direction.
The purpose of this unit is to provide an overview of the hospitality sector in the context of international markets and operations, and to explore some of the key factors and trends that influence hospitality managers’ decision-making and methods.
This unit aims to provide an understanding of the range of concepts and techniques associated with both qualitative and quantitative methods of research that assist business decision-making.
YEAR 2: ON-CAMPUS/ONLINE (1 TRIMESTER)
UNITS
Strategic management is the process of building capabilities that allow an organisation to create value for customers, shareholders, and society while operating in competitive markets. Strategy entails specifying an organisation’s mission, vision, and objectives; developing policies and plans to execute the vision; and allocating resources to implement those policies and plans.
The purpose of this unit is to provide a learning experience that will introduce the fundamental processes and structures for initiating and planning projects in the hospitality industry. This unit gives the opportunity to develop an advanced understanding of project management concepts.
The purpose of this unit is to provide students with the opportunity to integrate and apply their knowledge and skills from previous units to a simulation-based hospitality environment. This multi-disciplinary unit will develop participants' capacities to apply business planning skills and knowledge, systems and strategic thinking principles, management concepts, frameworks and analytical skills developed in other units.
YEAR 2: HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE (2 TRIMESTERS)
This is the first of two double units that provide a professionally supervised work integrated learning experience in the hospitality, tourism and related sectors. It emphasises the application of theoretical knowledge in different functional areas of an enterprise as required for students’ future employment as a hospitality manager.
This is the second of two double units that provide a professionally supervised work integrated learning experience in the hospitality, tourism and related sectors. It emphasises the application of theoretical knowledge in different functional areas of an enterprise as required for students' future employment as a hospitality manager. Through a selected and vetted work placement, the unit offers an opportunity for students to apply and integrate knowledge from diverse discipline areas under supervision by both Le Cordon Bleu and the host organisation.
This Master's program is designed for undergraduate students who wish to take their career in international hospitality management further. Applicants will be able to further develop their skills in management and operations to position them at a top tier level for a successful career as an executive in the hospitality industry.
Admission criteria:
Master of International Hospitality Management
To be eligible, you must have either an Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent, OR 3 years of relevant work experience at a supervisory or management leve. Applicants must be 18 years of age when the course commences.
You will be assessed through a combination of examinations, tests, essays, reflective journals, reports, projects, written assignments, oral presentations, classroom discussions and practical activities.
You can apply for Academic Credit, a process that recognises prior study, skills and knowledge. Graduates from recognised institutions providing evidence of their previous studies and industry experience can apply for this. If you would like to apply for this, please visit here for more information.
Eligible Australian citizens can access FEE-HELP for all or part of their tuition fees. To check your eligibility to access check the Australian Government Study Assist website.
The Master of International Hospitality Management is available to study in Adelaide only.
On-campus units are taught at TAFE SA’s Regency Campus. Online units (up to five over the duration of the course) are taught in collaboration with Holmesglen Institute of TAFE.Adelaide is known as the ’20 minute’ city because the airport, beautiful swimming beaches and the stunning Adelaide Hills are all only 20 minutes from the CBD.
Festivals and events provide locals and visitors with an eclectic menu of cultural and sporting experiences and the opportunity to enjoy great food and fabulous wines in chic wine bars, trendy restaurants and funky pop up cafés.
TAFE SA Regency International Centre for Tourism, Hospitality and Food Studies is the venue for our Le Cordon Bleu Adelaide Campus. Located in Regency Park, approximately 9 kms north of the Adelaide CBD, the internationally renowned centre features state-of-the-art training facilities and has a proud, award winning 38 year history.
If you are passionate about food, hospitality and a dynamic career, Le Cordon Bleu Australia is here to help you take that first step. Book an in-person campus tour at one of our campuses and discover how our internationally renowned programmes can guide you toward a successful future.
During your campus tour, you’ll have the opportunity to:
• Explore cutting-edge facilities: Walk through our kitchens, demo theatres and theory rooms where students gain hands-on experience and develop industry-leading skills.
• Learn about our Hospitality Management options: Gain insights into our programmes in Hotel Management, Restaurant Management and more. Our bachelor and master’s degrees are designed to equip you with the leadership, operational and strategic skills needed to thrive in the global hospitality industry.
• Engage with our experts: Meet our experienced faculty who can answer your questions and provide insight into the curriculum, career prospects and student life at Le Cordon Bleu.
By booking a campus tour, you're not just exploring a school — you're discovering a gateway to a world of exciting career opportunities.
Reserve your spot today and take the first step toward launching your career in culinary arts or hospitality management.
Choosing Le Cordon Bleu was an easy choice. The institution is world-renowned for its quality offerings and, looking back, I can definitely say studying a master's has helped me in my professional development overall.
Studying a master's at Le Cordon Bleu really gave me an understanding of the basic concepts of leadership and management which has assisted me with all my roles to-date. Apart from the extensive learnings from well-experienced facilitators, the part I loved most was forming relationships with my peers along the way.
The topics provide a range of learning opportunities for students to use throughout the lifecycle of their career. I still refer back to subjects such as Accounting Practices now, even as a hotel general manager.
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