Course summary

Our new MSc Hospitality Innovation Management, offered in partnership with Le Cordon Bleu, is a distinctive course drawing on both academic and professional expertise to provide you with the opportunity for personal and professional development. You will develop the professional skills required to undertake a wide range of roles in the hospitality industry, including entrepreneurship, hospitality management, leadership and innovation. Hospitality businesses operate in a constantly changing industry that provides numerous opportunities for individuals and organisations. The complex and evolving nature of the hospitality industry also provides particular challenges for businesses, and traditional business models may no longer be viable. Businesses will need to embrace innovation to cater for diverse and changing consumer trends and to ensure they stay sustainably profitable. With an emphasis on innovation, this Master's course gives you the chance to explore these important aspects and aims to provide you with:

• the skills required to pursue a variety of management careers in the hospitality industry or to set up and manage your own hospitality business

• knowledge and understanding of the hospitality management discipline

• an understanding of the hospitality business environment and insight into the nature and processes of entrepreneurship and innovation

• insights into the design and development of hospitality systems that offer innovative solutions to the industry

• the ability to apply theoretical and professional knowledge to hospitality businesses.

• This unique Master's course focuses on embracing innovation within the hospitality industry and ensuring sustainable profitability. It combines the study of the hospitality discipline, business and management in a global context with a focus on innovation, sustainability, customer experience and entrepreneurship. You will gain expert insights from industry guest speakers and gain further experience joining us on field visits to different organisations.

• Le Cordon Bleu London is a world-renowned network of educational institutions dedicated to providing the highest level of culinary and hospitality instruction through world-class courses. The school combines innovation with creativity and tradition through its Bachelor's and Master's degrees in business that focus on the demands of a growing international hospitality industry.

• Birkbeck and Le Cordon Bleu are members of the Institute of Hospitality. Free membership is available to students on this course.

• You will have access to Moodle and Engage, our online learning resources where all information and materials relating to your course of study and modules are available, as well as the Birkbeck Library and e-Library.

• Birkbeck is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the broad field of management. Our academic staff are active researchers as well as enthusiastic teachers, and regularly publish cutting-edge articles in the world's leading journals.

• You will use pioneering simulation software, which will allow you to use your analytical skills and strategic decision-making in a true-to-life business scenario. This immersive technique gives real-time experience of the challenges presented when running a hospitality business.

• hospitality management

• entrepreneurship and innovation

• sales and marketing

• revenue management

• corporate business analyst.