Diploma of Hospitality Management

For those with a love of people and travel, it’s hard to go past a career in hospitality. The Diploma of Hospitality Management equips you with the skills needed for a successful career in the diverse and fast-paced hospitality industry. As your career develops, the knowledge and experience gained while studying the Diploma of Hospitality Management could take you to workplaces as diverse as international hotels, resorts, cruise ships, and restaurants. Others have taken the plunge and opened their own hospitality business.

The Diploma of Hospitality Management offers you a stand-alone qualification through the Aspire Institute or, should you wish to further your studies, you could choose to use your diploma qualification as a pathway into a bachelor program at ICMS, with completed specialisations and subjects counting towards your degree. Upon successful completion of the Diploma of Hospitality Management you will receive advanced standing for subjects in an ICMS bachelor degree.

All Aspire students are part of the ICMS student community, with lectures held at our Northern Beaches campus and core business subjects at our new City campus, subject to availability. Aspire students receive dedicated academic support, including study skills.

Areas of study

Apply technical business knowledge to a range of hospitality industry contexts, appraise performance of self and others within a hospitality setting, describe solutions to routine hospitality industry situations, develop basic academic and applied research skills within a hospitality context, develop technical and theoretical knowledge and concepts of the hospitality industry in some depth, explain the importance of ethical and sustainable hospitality practices in a global context, identify appropriate sources of data for problem solving in a hospitality industry context, name specialist hospitality technology, present project findings in both written and personal presentation forms to diverse hospitality industry audiences, use business management principles and motivational factors to diverse individuals and teams in the hospitality industry.

Career opportunities

Assistant hotel manager, assistant food and beverage manager, accommodation assistant, hotel sales and marketing consultant, guest relations consultant, banqueting coordinator, assistant resort and spa manager, airline operations assistant, restaurant manager, bar/cocktail manager, concierge, assistant catering manager.

Fees and charges

Visit the Aspire Institute website for current fee information.