Graduate · Hospitality & Tourism
Master of International Hotel Leadership
William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
This is Angliss's senior credential for hotel industry professionals, longer and more research-oriented than the Graduate Diploma of International Hotel Leadership, and it's pitched at people aiming for general manager or regional leadership roles within international hotel brands rather than a first entry into hospitality management. The program draws on Angliss's genuinely deep international hotel industry relationships, built over decades of training staff who go on to work across branded hotel groups throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Coursework moves from operational hotel leadership topics into higher-level strategic and international business content: cross-cultural management, international hotel branding and franchise models, and hospitality investment and asset management, reflecting the reality that senior hotel leaders increasingly need to understand ownership and brand-management structures, not just day-to-day operations. The capstone research or applied project typically has students examining a real strategic problem in international hotel operations, often connected to their own employer or a target market.
Given the practitioner-heavy cohort (most students are already working in hotel management), Angliss runs the degree with flexible block and intensive delivery options, and it's common for students to be sponsored or part-supported by their current employer as part of a leadership development plan, which shapes both the applied focus of assessments and the seniority of typical classroom discussion.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
4 terms of coursework
- Core units: International Hotel Leadership and Strategy, Cross-Cultural Management in Hospitality, Hotel Branding and Franchise Models, Financial and Asset Management for Hotels
- Advanced units: Hospitality Investment and Development, Global Hotel Operations Standards, Strategic Human Resource Leadership
- Capstone: Applied Research Project or Strategic Business Project (often connected to the student's own employer or target market)
- Delivered in block/intensive format for working international hotel industry professionals
Admissions
Bachelor's degree or equivalent, hospitality industry experience preferred