Hospitality Management

Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Management from Vancouver Island University will produce graduates who are innovative hospitality management decision-makers equipped with demonstrable analytical skills, functional area knowledge, strong communication skills and abilities, combined with an applied human capital knowledge and skill set, who influence an organization’s performance through their future orientated leadership. 

Curriculum delivery will be enhanced through the use of hospitality industry specific simulations, case studies, and a robust semester-long visiting scholar or professors of practice (hospitality industry experts) interactive lecture series on meaningful issues and trends facing the hospitality executive today and in the future. 

Further, Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Management students from Vancouver Island University will contribute and mobilize knowledge to the industry through the completion of an integrated business project completed in conjunction with their graduate internship. 

Career Opportunities

While GDHM graduates have many career path opportunities from which to choose, the following careers are identified from recent labour market analysis: 

• Accommodation service managers 

• Restaurant and food service managers 

• Retail and wholesale trade mangers 

• Hotel chain regional vice-president 

• Hotel general manager 

• Manager, regional, sales