Undergraduate · Hospitality & Tourism
Bachelor of Resort and Hotel Management
William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
Angliss built this degree specifically around hotel and resort operations rather than the broader tourism-industry framing of some of its sister degrees, and the practical bent shows in the assessment style: students work through actual front office, housekeeping, and food and beverage operational scenarios using the institute's on-campus training facilities, which include a working commercial kitchen, bakery, and bar rather than only lecture-based case studies.
Placement is heavily weighted in this degree, and Angliss's long-standing relationships with major international hotel brands operating in Australia (a legacy of the institute's decades as the primary trainer for Melbourne and Victoria's hospitality workforce) mean students typically get placed into genuine hotel operations roles rather than administrative shadowing. Resort management units draw on case material from both Australian coastal and regional resort operators and international examples, reflecting graduates' genuine spread of career destinations: some go into city hotel management, others into regional or international resort operations.
Because Angliss's teaching culture leans so heavily on people who've worked the industry themselves, students should expect assessment that mirrors real operational pressure (rostering problems, service recovery scenarios, revenue management under real seasonal demand curves) rather than purely theoretical management frameworks.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
4 terms of coursework
- Year 1: Hotel and Resort Operations, Front Office Management, Food and Beverage Service Operations, Customer Experience Management, industry placement (short block)
- Year 2: Rooms Division Management, Resort Facilities and Recreation Management, Financial Management for Hospitality, Human Resource Management, extended industry placement
- Year 3: Revenue and Yield Management, Strategic Hotel and Resort Management, Sustainable Resort Operations, Capstone Industry Project, final industry placement
- Practical training delivered through William Angliss's on-campus commercial kitchen, bakery, and bar facilities
Admissions
Completion of Year 12 or equivalent