Thanks to the Hotel Management Specialization taught 100% in english of the Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management you will obtain the necessary training to lead and manage hotel companies in the face of current changes.
At CETT-UB we are aware that the digital transformation, the 2030 agenda and its new environmental legislation, globalization or new trends in management are profoundly altering the foundations of companies and organizations in the hotel sector.
New opportunities are emerging for companies in the sector. Similarly, established hotel companies and organizations need new management profiles to adapt to this new context.
Hotel Management is a training that adapts to you! Choose face-to-face or online mode
With our Master's degree in hotel management, you will be able to guide companies successfully to:
¿Te imaginas estudiar en un campus que tiene un hotel integrado donde puedes probar todo lo que aprendes?
Esto es lo que ofrece el Hotel Universitario Alimara, ubicado en el Campus CETT, un espacio esencial para el desarrollo de la formación, la investigación y la transferencia de conocimiento en los ámbitos del turismo, la hotelería y la gastronomía.
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The Specialization in Hotel Management of the Master's Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management of the CETT-UB focuses on hotel business management's essential aspects. Thanks to Operations Management in Lodging, you will learn the operational dimension of the sector. Then you will deal with the strategic dimension, with subjects such as Marketing Management and Economic-Financial Management.
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The general objective of the Hotel Management specialty of the Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management is to give you the knowledge and tools to be able to:
- Design and implement commercial strategies for new business opportunities in the hotel sector.
- Coordinate and lead the commercial activity in hotel companies.
- Optimize economic, financial, and human resources.
- Evaluate investments and make decisions on new projects, managing and controlling the associated risks.
- Define the necessary policies in line with the strategic objectives of the project.
- Develop digital skills for business management.
- Identify, pose, or solve a problem in a relevant and creative way.
- Be business-oriented.
- Undertake innovative projects.
- Exercise leadership.
- Work in teams and multicultural environments.
- To have an ethical commitment.
In the first part, the Master's degree addresses the core subjects in the two specialties to lay the foundations of business management systems specific to the hotel and catering sector. In a second part, it allows specialization in business management through its two particular specialties:
This specialty focuses on understanding the world of catering from a business results-oriented perspective.
Learning takes place through a deep immersion in real cases of leading companies in the market, which provides a very accurate notion of the market and the current challenges.
Subjects such as Product and Service Innovation or Experience Management allow identifying customer needs in particular contexts. Other subjects such as Operations Management or Catering and Collectivities will teach you the latest technological tools to manage and make profitable gastronomic businesses or events.
Duration
The curriculum of the Master's Degree in Hotel and Catering Management has a duration of one academic year equivalent to one year.
Delivery of the Master's Capstone Project: The Master's Capstone Project delivery can be done in two exclusive calls (June or September)
The Hotel Management specialty is a program that responds to the tourism sector's need to attract and incorporate executive profiles. Executives with in-depth knowledge in management and business management to overcome the new dynamics of the accommodation sector.
It is aimed at all those who want to learn the latest techniques and trends or move up the career ladder. But at the same time, they need to improve their knowledge of the management, organization, and planning of accommodation businesses.
The Master's program focuses on four profiles:
Executives and professionals holding hotel management positions: The current context requires that professionals in the sector update their knowledge and professional skills. They must be up to date with the latest trends and tools in the hospitality sector.
Accommodation business owners and entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurs and owners who wish to learn the ins and outs of managing and running lodging businesses.
Entrepreneurs: People with initiative interested in undertaking and developing projects in this sector. They want to know the keys to success in the hotel business, understand its risks and deepen their business management knowledge and direction.
University graduates: People with a university degree and a minimum of two years of experience who want to improve their careers and expand their professional contacts in the hotel industry.
This specialization, with a practical and professional approach, will allow you to develop your career in the following areas of work:
- Public Administration
- Travel Services & Transport
- Hospitality
- Industry & Operations
- Marketing & Events
- Gastronomy & Restaurant
- Retail & Product
- Technology
- Museums, Institutions and Leisure
The main professional opportunities are:
We adapt to you and your personal and professional needs. That is why we offer you this program in two modalities: one Face-to-face, on the CETT-UB Campus, and one Online, in which you will carry out eight months of online training and three face-to-face weeks of a practical nature.
The face-to-face modality of the specialty of Hotel Management of the Official Master's Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management is offered in a schedule that makes it possible to make compatible the training with your job development.
The main characteristics of this modality are:
The Hotel Management specialization of the master's degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management follows an comprehensive and proactive learning methodology, with a sequential modular format.
On the one hand, it is based on the theoretical-practical integration of training methods and strategies that contribute to your professional and personal growth. The program thus allows involvement at a more individual level, meeting your expectations and specific educational needs. On the other hand, you are the protagonist, in an educational environment that favors the development of your learning in an analytical, reflective and autonomous way, with the support of teachers, tutors and international experts in the sector, who guide you during the Master.
How do you work all this in the ** face-to-face modality **?
Also with a very hands-on methodology that includes:
The Master does not have final exams.
The evaluation is continuous throughout the academic program. You will have to carry out different activities, papers or written tests, individual or in groups, that correspond to the themes of each subject and that the teachers evaluate progressively.
Each activity is assigned a percentage of the final grade, which corresponds to the difficulty and the time required to complete it. In each subject, the percentages and delivery dates of the activities are identified so that you can manage the dedication time well.
The online modality allows you to combine your work and personal activity with a high-level academic training.
It is a training designed for those people interested in taking the program but who, due to their professional or personal circumstances, cannot attend face-to-face classes or travel to Barcelona for 9 months.
The main characteristics of this modality are:
The Hotel Management specialization follows an comprehensive and proactive learning methodology, with a sequential modular format.
On the one hand, it is based on the theoretical-practical integration of training methods and strategies that contribute to your professional and personal growth. The program thus allows involvement at a more individual level, meeting your expectations and specific educational needs. On the other hand, you are the protagonist, in an educational environment that favors the development of your learning in an analytical, reflective and autonomous way, with the support of teachers, tutors and international experts in the sector, who guide you during the Master.
How do you work all this in online mode? Following an inverted class strategy or flipped classroom:
The Master does not have final exams.
Evaluation is continuous throughout the academic program. You will have to carry out different activities, assignments or written tests, individual or group, that correspond to the themes of each subject and that the teachers evaluate progressively.
Each activity is assigned a percentage of the final grade, which corresponds to the difficulty and the time required to complete it. In each subject, the percentages and delivery dates of the activities are identified so that you can manage your dedication time well.
What type of evaluation activities will you find in the online format?
As a CETT student, you will enjoy all the advantages that the center has to offer:
Access to the Resource Center for learning and research:
As a center affiliated with the University of Barcelona, we enjoy the advantages of being part of the most prestigious university in Spain: UB Libraries - UB Sports Services - We are UB Card
Discounts at the University of Barcelona School of Modern Languages. Besides, thanks to the University of Barcelona University Card, you will enjoy promotions on products and services such as opticians, restaurants, technology, pharmacies, accommodation, travel, leisure activities, among others.
CETT has different restaurant services, such as the Fòrum or the Aula Restaurant CETT. The Fòrum is a space that favors creativity and cultural exchange among students. It has a varied, healthy, seasonal gastronomic offer that adapts to the day's different times. It is also possible to eat at the Aula Restaurant CETT, an à la carte restaurant with the same characteristics as an authentic gastronomic restaurant.
Be part of the CETT Alumni community to be in contact with CETT's extensive alumni network.
At CETT we are committed to creating a learning context that consolidates our own training model, with high added value resources oriented to experience, experimentation, sharing and learning, in a unique Campus.
Our students have access to different multipurpose learning spaces: the Eidos Space, La Plaça, the Creativity and Innovation Space, the Computer Classrooms or the Reception Classroom, among others.
In addition, if you are an international student, you will also have access to the International Relations Office, which will help and advise you with the procedures you need.
Because we understand the challenge of living in an environment that is not your own, the CETT-UB Campus offers you the International Relations Office (IRO), as an area designed to provide guidance, advice, and attention to international students during the Master's programs.
Our International Relations team will give you the necessary information related to logistical aspects of life in Barcelona, such as residency registration, the processing of your foreign resident's identity number (NIE), or how to find accommodation in the city.
The IRO team will provide you with updated information on the necessary procedures to carry out once you are in the city. They will provide you with guidance on essential documents such as your foreign resident's identity number (NIE), the official census at the City Council, or your university student card.
If your native language is not Spanish, the IRO team will advise how and where to learn it. They will also tell you where to learn Catalan, facilitating your integration into the city's daily life. Besides, you will strengthen your Spanish through the certified courses offered by our Language Department at CETT-UB. On the other hand, if you want to practice any different language informally, you can participate for free in our language exchange program with CETT students.
CETT-UB is the only higher education center with a residence hall - Agora BCN, with affordable prices for the CETT student community. We also have our four-star hotel, Hotel Alimara, where you and your family and friends can enjoy advantages and discounts.
At CETT-UB, you have a team of expert professionals who will watch over your professional career from the moment you become part of our community.
We want you to be informed and prepared to achieve the professional goals you have set for yourself. With this motivation, you will find a team of people who will accompany you during the process in a personalized way.
Thanks to the collaboration of the main companies in the tourism sector, you will be able to know and put into practice the most useful tools to access and develop in the labor market.
The service we put at your disposal is based on three fundamental pillars:
In this way, we invite you to participate in a dynamic process adapted to your expectations that encompasses the following phases:
Definition of your professional milestones
Design and elaboration of the main tools for the relationship with the labor market
Personalized coaching
Networking and Dynamization of activities
Job Center with exclusive access to
In addition, Career Services will help you find and manage the curricular and extracurricular internships that best suit you.
For more information, visit the Career Services area, contact us by email at careerservices@cett.cat, or you can also visit us on the second floor of the Campus.
CETT-Alumni was born as the CETT-UB Alumni Association on March 1, 1994, as an initiative to offer a service to alumni, a space for personal and professional guidance, and a meeting point for experts in the tourism, gastronomy, and hospitality sector, with the CETT-UB as their common bond.
As an association of CETT-UB alumni, its primary mission is to promote the relationship between them, thus creating a network of professionals. Their shared link is to be CETT alumni.
The main objectives of CETT-Alumni are:
CETT-UB is the only university tourism center that has a student residence, the Ágora BCN International University Residence. As a student of any of our degrees you will enjoy exclusive discounts so you can stay here while you study. Ask us without obligation!
As part of our application companies we have our own four-star hotel, the Hotel Alimara. Located at the foot of the Collserola mountain range and within the CETT Campus itself, both you and your family members will be able to enjoy advantages and discounts.
That is why to access the Hotel Management Specialization, we encourage you to have the following skills:
| Students | Reservation Fee | Enrollment Fee | UB Fee* | Price | Total Price** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Non-EU citizens | 1.100 € | 900 € | 710 € | 10.400 € | 13.110 € |
| 1.100 € | 900 € | 710 € | 9.210 € | 11.920 € |
*The fees of the University of Barcelona (UB) are an amount that the student of an affiliated center has to pay for academic services to the University and is paid at the same time as the registration. This amount is exempt from any type of discount.
** This price is for cash payments. Consult the prices and conditions for other payment methods with our Future Students Guidance Team.
Deductible qualification through FUNDAE
Have you any doubt?
Students from undergraduate degrees in the field of business and project management in the field of tourism and hospitality must not take any type of supplement.
The Master has a range of subjects designed exclusively to adapt to the specific needs of potential students as training complements, thus students from undergraduate degrees in the field of business management and administration will have to take one of the following subjects depending on the specialization of the chosen master's degree:
Students coming from other undergraduate degrees in disciplinary fields other than the previous ones will have to take the subjects:
The procedure for admission to the degree can be consulted in the corresponding section of Study access information.
CETT Foundation, with the firm conviction that training and transmission of knowledge are fundamental, extends the study aid program already offered annually to students.
Besides, CETT will also accept payments in 6, 10, or 12 months through bank financing plus a 5 % discount of total enrollment fees should students wish to choose this option. Find out about the special conditions.
