This FREE 1-hour Masterclass, led by Forbes Travel Guide, explores how shifting guest expectations are redefining luxury hospitality standards. Through expert insights and real-world examples, the session provides practical guidance on delivering personalised, consistent, and high-quality service in today’s competitive hospitality landscape.
You’re determined to change the world by launching your own food business or growing the food company you work for. Go for it, with our online Master of Professional Studies in Food Business. To succeed in this business, you need to assess market opportunities and prepare for what’s ahead in the food world. You’ll be ready to do that and more with this CIA master’s program.
Highlights:
Advance your career while you’re working through online study with top subject matter experts drawn from the food, beverage, and hospitality industry and CIA faculty.
Examine global forces like shifting demographics, technology, a renewed focus on health and wellness, and the growing consumer demand for sustainability.
Focus on design thinking, marketing and branding, product development, operations, law, real estate, food systems, and leadership that inspires high-performing teams.
Gain invaluable insights from guest speakers in food and beverage, finance, marketing, operations, law, entrepreneurship, food concepts, and product development.
Begin with a short residency at The CIA at Copia in Napa, CA and finish the program with the final residency at the CIA in Hyde Park, NY, pitching your business playbook to leaders in the corporate, investment, and education worlds.
Network with thought leaders and attend the CIA-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Menus of Change® conference during your mid-program residency at the CIA in Hyde Park, NY
This exciting course analyses and evaluates the commercial and management forces that have contributed to the success of sport business. It offers flexibility with an innovative combination of block and online delivery, making it suitable for those working in the sports sector and recent graduates who are looking to develop their knowledge and understanding of this fast growing and important industry. Spectator and participatory sport is a global phenomenon and has recently become one of the fastest growing economic sectors for both developed and developing countries. Through engaging with and analysing the commercial, media and political drivers of change, you are able to identify the factors that have created such growth and critically discuss the implications for business, society, nation branding and identity. Sport is a sophisticated and complex international business with billions of consumers watching and engaging with sporting events on a weekly or even daily basis. This course aims to develop professionals in the provision, promotion and marketing of sport who are able to fully capitalise on the opportunities that the sector presents. Through studying marketing, sponsorship, media and law – and after spending time in a sports organisation on a professional work placement – you gain academic understanding and practical knowledge of the issues involved in successful sport business management. This will help you to engage, manage and shape the sport businesses of the future.
Swiss Alpine Center’s program of study in hospitality and tourism management requires that students learn to run a business from the bottom-up, learning the details of every department including the role and job description of each and every staff member. This comprehensive Swiss method of teaching which includes a balanced combination of practical courses mixed with management theory and applied business exercises, is what has earned Swiss hotel schools their reputation in the world of hospitality education. Alpine’s program also enables the student to acquire the business skills necessary to manage a hotel operation profitably, while at the same time adhering to world class hospitality standards. Besides business skills, students enrolled on the Swiss Alpine Diploma in Hotel Management acquire soft skills that are of utmost importance to the hospitality industry. These include attention to detail, flexibility, reliability, teamwork, immaculate presentation, leadership skills, innovation and above all exceptional customer service skills. Stude
Event Planning Certification Online.
Explore the remarkable world of the professional events planner in this insightful nine-module certificate. A fantastically-rewarding creative industry with limitless scope for advancement, the services of outstanding event planners have never been in greater demand. From important business meetings to upmarket weddings and right through to sprawling music festivals, event managers single-handedly determine the event’s success or otherwise. A career of rewards and responsibilities in equal measures, to become proficient in the art of event planning is to become a powerful and priceless business asset.
This introductory event planning certification online, investigates the practical skills, theoretical knowledge and personal traits required to succeed in this highly-competitive industry. Course content of this online event planning certification, introduces candidates to a variety of common event types, breaking the event planning process down to its core elements and exploring each in-depth. Candidates build an advanced understanding of event budgeting, venue selection criteria, event theme and concept considerations, critical health and safety legislation, event marketing strategies and closing/evaluating events.
Ultimately, successful candidates will have the opportunity to seek positions with working event management agencies, or to start their own private event planning businesses.
Event Management Course Online.
The contemporary events planning industry is widely regarded as one of the world’s most enjoyable, diverse and comprehensively rewarding. The services of the professionally-qualified events manager have never been in higher demand, as businesses and private clients alike continue to request the planning, implementation and management of increasingly challenging and complex events. From the smallest of corporate meetings to the largest live music events, event planners are required to master a wide variety of intricate disciplines, in order to build both a strong reputation and a lucrative life-long career.
This event management course online, has been designed for those with an existing interest in contemporary events in general, though perhaps no specific prior qualifications or experience. Candidates are gradually and comprehensively introduced to the most important elements in the event planning process, along with what exactly it is the events manager does and how to build a successful career. Nine intensive modules of Online event management Course, begin with an outline of events from a modern perspective, before introducing a variety of different event-types, the most critical event planning steps, human resource management, event marketing, contingency planning and ultimately how to go into business as an event planner.
Successful candidates will have the opportunity to explore and pursue countless career options with established event planning brands, or to build and manage their own private events management business.
By graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Food and Beverage (F&B) Management studies, graduates will be able to: Recognize and interpret the different trends, challenges, and scenarios in the hospitality and tourism industries. Explain the foundation and conceptual framework of hospitality businesses, from operational to managerial perspectives. Explain the role and impacts of businesses in the development of environmental, social, and financial sustainability. Develop critical thinking skills through a foundation of broad and varied academic fields of study. Demonstrate the ability to make decisions, solve problems and think critically in hospitality business-related scenarios. Negotiate and discuss hospitality business-related issues with confidence and ease. Demonstrate effective management and operational techniques in hospitality operations (hotel, F&B, events, etc.). Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication to ensure delivering the right impression and impact when dealing with clients and colleagues.
Event managers are needed to generate event ideas and facilitate them professionally. From a global event like the St Patrick’s Festival to regional food and sports weekends, public celebrations and festivals, event management has evolved into big business. This growth nationally and internationally has been fuelled by the increase in the number, size and sophistication of events. Ireland has a thriving events sector which hosts exciting and varied events and festivals throughout the year. In this four-year course, you’ll acquire practical and theoretical skills in all aspects of event management. You’ll become knowledgeable in areas such as event planning and design, marketing, sponsorship, staging and health and safety. You’ll be equipped with the knowledge, understanding and professional management skills you need. As well as event-specific subjects such as Event Industry Studies and Event Planning and Production, you’ll also follow a broad business course with subjects such as Management, Marketing, Finance and Law.European languages are increasingly important in the world of work. You can choose to study one European language. Subjects include business communications, digital fundamentals, event industry studies, event operations (with 150 hours’ work experience), intercultural awareness in HTLE (hospitality, tourism, leisure & events) or language, management, financial accounting, fundraising and sponsorship, event planning and production, conference management; events, leisure and tourism enterprise development, event industry law, event safety and health, strategic management, and entrepreneurship. There’s a six-month work placement in Year 3. On graduation, you may proceed to postgraduate studies leading to the award of MSc, MPhil or PhD at research institutes and universities worldwide.
ThePowerMBA is a highly practical and up-to-date online program, where you learn from the best, in (+250) 15 min classes and gain a unique understanding of business to accelerate your career, launch, or scale your own business – all for a minimal investment of time and money, unlike in traditional business schools.