Introduction
This program will be conducted in English
Success in the Hospitality and Tourism industries requires the development of decision-making skills, thorough knowledge of the sector, and a global strategic vision.
Ostelea’s Hospitality and Tourism Management MBA is designed with the objective of training the future leaders of the tourism sector: directors, professionals, and entrepreneurs equipped to manage business projects in the tourism and hotel sector at the very highest level. To this end, the program particularly focuses on the development of executive skills and aptitudes of a strategic nature.
Reasons for studying the Hospitality and Tourism Management MBA at Ostelea
Reputation in the field of management and tuition quality: Ostelea is the result of a partnership between one of the world’s best business school, EAE (second-best business school in Spain according to the Merco Ranking 2015), bringing its experience and reputation in management, with the Universitat de Lleida, Spain’s top public university in terms of the quality of the tuition (Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo), awarded the distinction of International Campus of Excellence.
Multicultural approach: 66% of the students at Ostelea are international.
Rigorous academic program: based on cultivating strategic thought and specific knowledge of the hospitality and tourism industry, an essential blend for executive positions in the sector.
Hotel business game: In the final tuition period, participants are organized into teams and they have to manage their own hotel company, competing on the global market that is dynamic and changing, in a realistic reflection of the real world, made up of other teams of students.
An extensive program of visits to hotels, hotel chains, tourism companies, and public authorities: As the participants need first-hand insight into the reality and trends in the sector, accompanied by executives in the Hospitality and Tourism industries.
Research group: Members of the Master’s academic faculty form part of EAE’s multidisciplinary tourism research group (GRIT-EAE), the scientific output of which focuses on the field of international tourism management.
Objectives
The objectives of the Hospitality and Tourism Management MBA are as follows:
International Vision of the Tourism Industry
Providing executive tuition with an international vision of the tourism industry, together with a flexible and adaptable perspective in a changing and competitive global setting. Integrating the main spheres of tourism management from an interdisciplinary and comprehensive perspective.
Strategic
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. Enabling the acquirement of knowledge and skills in terms of new technologies applied to tourism and e-Tourism, in particular.
Future Leaders
Training the future leaders of the global hospitality and tourism industry. Equipping participants with the executive skills and competencies required of directors and businesspeople in the tourism sector in order to ensure dynamic, effective, and successful leadership.
Trends
Analyzing global trends in the sector and acquiring the perspectives and strategies required to become ethical leaders of global tourism organizations.
