Top ranking for Barcelona-Maastricht-Oxford Hospitality Master

 

El Innovative Hospitality Management (MSc) de TSI-Turismo Sant Ignasi se sitúa por segundo año consecutivo entre los 5 mejores másters de turismo y hotelería de España, según el ranking publicado hoy por el periódico El Mundo.

La publicación, que reúne a los mejores 250 másters de España, destaca del IHM "su elevada tasa de inserción laboral, y las cadenas hoteleras colaboradoras, como Marriott, Hilton o Ritz-Carlton".

El Innovative Hospitality Management (MSc) es un master universitario que se realiza conjuntamente entre TSI - Turismo Sant Ignasi y la Hotel Management School Maastrich (Maastricht, Países Bajos). El programa también realiza algunos contenidos en colaboración con Oxford Brookes University Business School (Oxford, Inglaterra).

Está dirigido a graduados con un interés particular en los aspectos creativos y multiculturales de la industria hotelera y tiene como puntos fuertes la innovación, la hospitalidad, y la gestión y dirección de empresas hoteleras.

El ranking de El Mundo se realiza a partir de un análisis exhaustivo de los programas, teniendo en cuenta 26 criterios clasificados en categorías tales como la demanda, los recursos humanos, planes de estudio, los resultados generales y recursos materiales. Además, tiene en cuenta las instituciones colaboradoras, el número y el prestigio de los miembros del profesorado, programa académico, relación calidad-precio, tutorías personalizadas para los estudiantes y los resultados obtenidos por los estudiantes.

Para realizar el ranking,  "El Mundo" ha tenido en cuenta las opiniones de más de 500 expertos de los profesores, antiguos alumnos y empresas colaboradoras.

http://www.tsi.url.edu/es/noticias/el_innovative_hospitality_management_de_nuevo_entre_los_5_mejores_masters_en_hoteleria-264

Maastricht Hotel Management School Initiates Cooperation with Business School Southeast Missouri State University

Published: 2005-03-29 00:00:00

Last week Prof.dr.Peter Gordon visited the Maastricht Hotel Management School.Peter Gordon is professor in International Marketing and coordinates the international projects of the Business School of Southeast Missouri State University in the USA. This Business School has a long-standing cooperation with the Hogeschool Zuyd (since 1990). The Graduate department of the Maastricht Hotel Management School cooperates with the MBA-department of SEMO in the field of student and staff-exchange. As a result of Dr.Gordon’s visit both departments decided to start a cooperation in the field of research. Joint research activities will be started in this Spring. More information can be obtained from Jeroen Oskam or Matt Heckman.

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Last week Prof.dr.Peter Gordon visited the Maastricht Hotel Management School.Peter Gordon is professor in International Marketing and coordinates the international projects of the Business School of Southeast Missouri State University in the USA. This Business School has a long-standing cooperation with the Hogeschool Zuyd (since 1990). The Graduate department of the Maastricht Hotel Management School cooperates with the MBA-department of SEMO in the field of student and staff-exchange. As a result of Dr.Gordon’s visit both departments decided to start a cooperation in the field of research. Joint research activities will be started in this Spring. More information can be obtained from Jeroen Oskam or Matt Heckman.

Maastricht Hotel Management School is a bachelor's degree course in hospitality management. Moreover, Maastricht Hotel Management School offers two master's degree courses. On graduation, you can embark on a career as a manager or consultant with hospitality and service organisations such as hotels, restaurants, catering companies, and congress and conference centres.

Link: http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/research/chr/news/newsroom/item-details.html?id=4022872

A certain degree of hospitality

Tourism is one of the fastest-growing and most important economic sectors in the world. According to the World Tourism Organization, more than 700 million tourists chose to travel in 2002; in 2001, international tourism accounted for $463 billion worldwide. It seems logical, therefore, that travel and hospitality organizations worldwide should be looking to business schools to train new managers for their hotels, restaurants, resorts, and airlines. In fact, a number of business schools and freestanding hotel schools around the world have dedicated themselves to just that cause.

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The growth in hospitality degree programs has directly paralleled the growth in the tourism industry, according to Jeroen Oskam of the Maastricht Hotel Management School in the Netherlands. When a region sees an upsurge in tourism and competition increases, he says, “the quality of the tourist product becomes a decisive factor. At that point, hotels and other companies realize that having a well-prepared staff will be the key to success.”
Similarly, the changes in hospitality programs mirror the changes in the industry itself, Oskam notes. He expects the future of tourism to be affected by demographic factors such as aging populations, and economic growth in emerging countries that will lead them to welcome tourists. It’s inevitable that as hotels and restaurants are transformed from family-owned enterprises to multinational companies with thousands of employees, hospitality management programs will become more international in nature and focus on the challenges of running global corporations.

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While students in hospitality classes learn the basic functional disciplines of finance, marketing, and OB, specialty courses often define the programs. For instance, at the Maastricht Hotel Management School, students take courses on the sustainable development of tourist areas. [...]

Sharon Shinn, BizEd May/June 2003
Download full article at http://www.aacsb.edu/Publications/Archives/MayJune03/p42-47.pdf

Maastricht Hotel School: Checking out the hotel industry

What do a Dutch TV cook, a 40-year-old Turkish student and a 17th century castle have in common? They all make up part of one of the fastest growing industries in the world, in which Maastricht is a forerunner – hotel and tourism.

In 2000, the Student’s Guide for Higher Education, the national board of Higher Vocational Education and the European Foundation for the Accreditation of Hotel School Programmes found the Management Hotel School Maastricht to be the best in the field nationwide.

The school was founded in 1950 but really took off in the 1970s, moving from the city centre to the 17th century Bethlehem Castle. It is now part of the Hogeschool Zuyd, which boasts 12,000 students, and has an impressive network of contacts with international companies and hotel chains, such as the Hilton, Holland Casino, Euro Disney and the International Congress and Convention Association.

It is now broadening its horizons with the recent introduction of a new MBA in Hotel and Tourism Management. Broken down into three parts, the programme is aimed at graduates and hotel and tourism professionals preparing to take the next step in their career. It is taught by a diverse spectrum of teachers, including guest lecturers from the industry.

“On the MBA programme, you will find people who are making a career switch or want to progress to senior management. They have to learn all the aspects of the industry, even cooking,” says Jeroen Oskam, the MBA Programme Director.

“Our oldest student is 44. We have one Dutch student and people from countries including Turkey, China, the UK, South America, Canada and Germany.”

Jeyan Akcay, a 40-year-old student from Turkey, is among them. “I was working as an executive assistant to the general manager in a hotel and timeshare in Turkey I had graduated in business administration but wanted an MBA,” she said. “The programme looked very promising as I am looking for international experience. I am very satisfied with the course and glad to be here.”

“The Dutch have a very good name in the industry. Tradition is a very important part,” explained Mr Oskam. “For example, due to the education system, students in Germany have to work several years in the industry, then they study before going back into it. It is a very long step in their career. It is a very long process. While in Spain, people are more focused on the material side of the profession, whereas we offer practical and theoretical studies.

“Hotel and tourism is one of the fastest growing industries due to people spending more on leisure and people travelling around a lot more,” he added. “The students want to pursue an international career and discover something different.”

The students have an impressive precedent to follow. Some graduates have stayed locally - you can find them in many hotels in Maastricht - and have also moved into other hospitality industries, such as management consultancies, marketing, sales and HR. While others have gone on to leading positions in prestigious companies such as the Ritz Carlton in New York and the Sheraton hotels, and can be found in companies all over Europe, America and China. Among the school’s list of former students is the President of the Hilton in Washington DC. Even the famous Dutch TV cook, Braakhekke, studied at the school.

By Louise Druce

Source: Crossroads print issue, December 2002