Train in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management!
Thanks to our Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management, you will acquire the personal and professional skills to lead and manage future hotel and restaurant companies.
At the CETT-UB we are aware of the new challenges we’re currently facing due to digital transformation, new environmental legislation, globalization, and the latest management trends. All of them are radically transforming the basis of companies and organizations. As a result, new tourism business opportunities are arising.
The sector needs new highly qualified executive profiles to be able to adapt to this new context.
If you want to be part of the change, the Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management, will be a cornerstone in your education to be part of this transformation.
Thanks to our Master's degree in Hotel Management, you will be able to lead business projects to:
- Adapt and design products and services to new technologies.
- Design the strategic objectives of organizations and companies.
- Understand emerging types of customers.
- Compete internationally in the hotel and restaurant sector.
- Contribute to customer-oriented business culture.
- Know the latest trends in executive management in the hotel and catering sector.
- Improve the structural balance between tourism and its environment.
- Find more reasons to study this Master's Degree.
¿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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One master's degree and two specialties
The master's degree has two specialization routes that will allow you to delve into different areas according to your interests and motivations. Thanks to these specialties you will achieve a much more competitive professional profile and the necessary knowledge to face the different challenges faced by companies and tourist destinations to create and launch products.
In addition, you can do the Hotel Management specialty in two modalities: one face-to-face, on the CETT Campus, and one Blended, adapting to your personal and professional needs.
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El CETT-UB ha obtenido cuatro estrellas en la auditoría de QS Stars de Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), una empresa británica de referencia especializada en el análisis de instituciones de educación superior en todo el mundo. La mejor calificación (cinco estrellas) corresponde a las categorías de Enseñanza y Empleabilidad.
Why study the master in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management?
In the Master's Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management, you will develop the necessary skills to lead a competitive and dynamic tourism market.
Tools such as design thinking or the customer journey will allow you to create tailor-made products and services. You will contribute to the creation of a new, more ethical, and sustainable commercial framework.
- You will acquire skills, competencies, and knowledge that respond to the hotel and restaurant sector's challenges and become part of the new generation of tourism leaders.
- Most of our students find jobs upon completion of the Master's degree.
- You will have a new executive management view, creative and innovative, adapted to the market's unique demands.
- You will train with a 360º vision of the sector through content, visits to organizations, training activities, and a team of teachers and collaborators with a recognized and well-established background who actively participate in your training.
- You will innovate and create new business models based on recent trends in the hotel and restaurant sector.
- You will integrate the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- You will customize your career by choosing between two specialties, two languages of instruction (Spanish or English) and different attendance models (face-to-face or blended). Do not hesitate to ask for more information!
- It is the only Master's Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management that allows **access to doctoral studies. **
- This university degree ensures international academic recognition.
What do our master students think?
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Which objectives will you achieve with the Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management?
The overall objective of the Master's Degree in Hotel and Beverage Management is to give you the knowledge and tools to be able to:
- Lead, manage and transform accommodation and catering companies and businesses.
- Make strategic and operational decisions in dynamic and agile contexts.
- Internalize management models based on sustainable criteria in the social, economic, and environmental fields.
- Make the most of the opportunities offered by digitalization. Both for its commercialization, as well as to undertake and create specific products and services.
Which competences will you acquire tith this master?
The general competencies you will develop are:
- Design and implement commercial strategies for new business opportunities in the sector.
- Coordinate and lead the commercial activity in hotel and catering 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.
Course overview
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:
Specializations of the Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management
The specializations are learning itineraries that provide you with more outstanding expertise in your academic and professional career. Thus, the Master's degree allows you to choose between two specialties. However, if you want to take more than one, contact our student orientation team, and they will give you all the details.
This specialty focuses on the most relevant aspects of hotel management. You will learn from the sector's operational characteristics, with subjects such as Operations Management in Lodging, to the strategic part, with subjects such as Marketing Management and Economic-Financial Management.
Combining all the subjects allows you to understand and comprehend sustainability, corporate social responsibility, investment analysis, and customer-centric approaches. These are strategic elements that contribute to differentiation in a competitive and dynamic tourism market.
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.
This specialty focuses on the most relevant aspects of hotel management. You will learn from the sector's operational characteristics, with subjects such as Operations Management in Lodging, to the strategic part, with subjects such as Marketing Management and Economic-Financial Management.
Combining all the subjects allows you to understand and comprehend sustainability, corporate social responsibility, investment analysis, and customer-centric approaches. These are strategic elements that contribute to differentiation in a competitive and dynamic tourism market.
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 Food and Beverage Management has a duration of one academic year equivalent to one year.
Delivery of the Master's Capstone Project: The Master's Final Capstone delivery can be done in two exclusive calls (June or September)
Managers, owners of tourist accommodation, entrepreneurs and university graduates
The Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage is a study program designed for businesspeople, students, and entrepreneurs. This university degree offers a cross-curricular vision of the hotel and catering industry without renouncing to specialization.
The Master's degree responds to the hotel and restaurant industry's need to incorporate new executive profiles. Leaders with a solid foundation in management and business management to face the sector's changes.
It is aimed at all those who need to strengthen their knowledge of management, organization, and business planning in hotels, companies, and catering establishments or wishing to learn about the latest trends or advance professionally.
The Master focuses on four profiles:
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Executives and professionals in tourism management positions: The current social and economic situation requires that professionals in the sector update their knowledge and professional skills and learn about the latest trends and tools that affect their professional specialization.
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Owners of tourist accommodation and restaurants: Entrepreneurs and proprietors who wish to improve their strategies, techniques, and tools for management and leadership.
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Entrepreneurs: People with initiative interested in undertaking and developing projects in this sector. They want to know the keys to success in the hotel and food and beverage business, understand its risks and deepen their business management knowledge and direction.
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University graduates: People with a university degree and a minimum of two years of experience who wish to boost their careers and expand their professional contacts in catering and tourist accommodation.
Professional areas
This master's degree, 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
- Catering
- Industry & Operations
- Gastronomy & Restaurant
- Retail & Product
- Marketing & Events
- Consultancy
- Technology
Career Oportunities
The main career opportunities are:
- Managing director of hotel or restaurant companies or groups
- Corporate area manager in hotel or restaurant chains
- Food & Beverage Director
- Marketing manager of a hotel organization
- Hotel division manager in business groups
- Operations supervisor in a group catering center
- Consultant or trainer for tourist accommodation companies
- Entrepreneur in the accommodation and catering sector
What our alumni says
How is the methodology of the Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage Management?
Our learning model is designed to facilitate the analysis and understanding of business management aspects through your active participation in classes, challenges, and projects.
It is based on three pillars:
Assesment
The Master does not have final exams. Assessment is based on continuous monitoring by faculty and the program management and the resolution of individual or group written tests, and elaborating assignments throughout the course.
Detail of the program of the Master's Degree in Hotel and Food and Beverage Manegement
Total Master Credits: 60 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)
| Code | Subjects | Type | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0580019 | Marketing in the Digital Age | Required | 3 |
| 0580020 | Talent Development and Diversity in Tourism | Required | 3 |
| 0580021 | Corporate Finance in Tourism Organizations | Required | 6 |
| 0580022 | Scenario Analysis and Strategic Planning | Required | 6 |
| 0580005 | Hotel operations management | Specialty Required - Hotel | 6 |
| 0580006 | Hotels design and architecture | Specialty Required - Hotel | 3 |
| 0580023 | Hotel Asset Management and Concept Creation | Specialty Required - Hotel | 6 |
| 0580036 | Restaurant Operations Management | Specialty Required - Food&Beverage | 6 |
| 0580024 | Data Analysis and Tools for Restaurants | Specialty Required - Food&Beverage | 3 |
| 0580025 | Development and Planning of Restaurant Properties | Specialty Required - Food&Beverage | 3 |
| 0580038 | Restaurant Design and Architecture | Specialty Required - Food&Beverage | 3 |
| 0580027 | Revenue Management and Pricing Strategies | Specialty Required - Hotel and Food&Beverage | 3 |
| 0580029 | CSR and Sustainability for Hotels and Restaurants | Specialty Required - Hotel and Food&Beverage | 3 |
| 0580030 | Practicum | Elective | 9 |
| 0580031 | Research Methodologies and Tools | Elective | 9 |
| 0580032 | Processes and Techniques for Entrepreneurship in Tourism | Elective | 9 |
| 0580035 | Master's Final Project | MFP | 12 |
Master's capstone project
The Master's Capstone Project (MCP) (15 ECTS) is the completion of the Master's learning process, where the competencies you have acquired are reflected, as well as their application and development. It is a work of business and or academic application. According to your interests and professional motivations, you will expand some aspects of the chosen specialization.
To obtain this Master's degree, students must pass this integrative subject. Thus, the MCP is an instrument to train our students to analyze tourism problems and facts through research methods based on the identification and use of different variables. It is also an assessment tool for the Master's competencies with a globalizing perspective.
The MCP is individual. You will have to carry out your work under the supervision of a professor where you can choose between three typologies:
- Applied research projects linked to the CETT-UB Research Groups.
- Professional application projects proposed by companies and collaborating organizations.
- Business plans to develop business ideas.
Each project is unique and requires a different approach and attention appropriate to its objectives and subject matter. Your tutor will set the guidelines to follow.
Internship in first-class companies and institutions
During your training period at CETT-UB, you will have the opportunity to do your internship in first-class companies and institutions, to apply and complement the knowledge acquired, and at the same time to promote the acquisition of skills that prepare them for the exercise of professional activities.
The internships have two modalities:
- Curricular: linked to subjects of the program you are taking and that are part of its academic curriculum, therefore, mandatory.
- Extracurricular: not included in the syllabus and are voluntary.
The internships are carried out through university-entrepreneur cooperation agreements and are supervised by expert subject professors.
CETT-UB will help you find the most suitable opportunities for your professional profile and your motivations among the more than 900 requests from companies we receive annually. Likewise, we will help you contact and accompany you in accessing the most attractive companies and institutions to your professional objectives.
As a differential feature to the market, the CETT-UB has its group of companies dedicated to training and offering quality hotel and tourism services so that you can apply this practical knowledge without leaving the Campus:
- Hotel Alimara
- Àgora Residence
- Aula Restaurant
- Summum Restaurant & Bar
For more information, visit the Career Services, contact us by email at careerservices@cett.cat, or you can also visit us on the second floor of the Campus.
Some of the companies that collaborate with CETT-UB
Get an official title
At the end of this Master, you will obtain the following degree depending on the chosen specialty:
Official Degree University of Barcelona: Master's Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Code 4311520 of the Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT) Registry of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training of the Government of Spain.
Obtained verification of the curriculum by the Council of Universities, following a report by the Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya, as well as the authorization of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, and established the official nature of the degree by agreement of the Council of Ministers of September 26, 2014 (published in BOE of October 18, 2014).
Joint Specialization: By taking the Master's degree, you will be able to take, if you wish, a second specialty within the official program. Taking a double specialization will broaden your competencies and help you face a very dynamic and competitive labor market in an even more tangible way. Specialization in Hotel Management by the University of Barcelona and Food and Beverage Management by the University of Barcelona.
You can only do one specialization per year, always respecting the teaching periods.
CETT at your service
As a CETT student, you will enjoy all the advantages that the center has to offer:
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Access to the Resource Center for learning and research:
- The University of Barcelona has an extensive catalog of databases to consult documents, reports, and scientific articles.
- Have access to CETT's own resources to reinforce, complete, and expand training. All information (both physical and digital) is available in the different spaces dedicated to this function.
- Free access to the entire digital library of World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) resources.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Be part of the CETT Alumni community to be in contact with CETT's extensive alumni network.
- Discount at ÀGORA BCN International University Residence. We are the only higher education tourism center with a student residence to stay here while you study. As a CETT student, you will have unique conditions. Do not hesitate to ask!
Learning spaces
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.
CETT International Support
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.
Procedures related to your academic stay
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.
Languages
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.
Accomodation
CETT-UB is the only higher education center with a residence hall - Àgora 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.
Support to boost your professional career
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:
- Continuous professional guidance focused on you, identifying your profile's strengths, analyzing your previous experience and training, and supporting us in your main motivations for growth.
- Our close relationship with the leading players in the tourism sector, built up over more than 50 years of presence in the market, training professionals with highly sought-after skills and values.
- Design and develop a whole range of activities, spaces for debate, and tools that we make available to you, enabling you to face any challenge you may encounter throughout your professional career.
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
- In-depth analysis of your entry profile.
- Establishment of realistic objectives and monitoring of your roadmap.
- Guidance in the design and development of your personalized Career Plan.
Design and elaboration of the main tools for the relationship with the labor market
- Review and correction of resumes and cover letters, adapting the professional objective to the market demands.
- Letter of recommendation. Students who are in the selection process will be able to count on CETT-UB references.
- Access to the primary research channels and access to internship and job opportunities:
- Handling of offers and self-applications. We support you to make your profile more visible to companies and headhunters, giving you references for your application.
- Application follow-up. We help you to know where your application is in the selection process.
Personalized coaching
- Guidance on the search for employment opportunities
- Simulation of job interviews and feedback on the aspects to improve
- Competency-based interviews and mentoring for those profiles with difficulties in following the job search process or at risk of social exclusion
- Preparation of presentations for you to learn first-hand about companies' needs to analyze the possibilities of short and medium-term linkage with an organization and exchange concerns with professionals of reference
Networking and Dynamization of activities
- Corporate presentations during your training period
- Master Classes oriented to know strategic sectors
- Dynamics and corporate challenges incorporated into your training sessions
- Marketplaces and face-to-face/virtual job fairs where more than a hundred companies participate annually in the Campus in the personalized recruitment of talent.
Job Center with exclusive access to
- Over 900 internship opportunities managed annually.
- More than 1,500 job opportunities annually.
- Follow-up of applications submitted
- Adaptation of customized curricula vitae and cover letters.
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.
Being close to old students
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:
- To promote the lifelong professional development of its associates at all levels and to favor access to the world of work, professional promotion, and lifelong learning. To foster creating a hub for exchanging knowledge and experiences among alumni, offering them the association as a meeting point in the professional world.
- To facilitate knowledge and networking through conferences, lectures, colloquium dinners, and expert sessions. CETT Alumni wants to be a center of opinion and influence on the tourism environment.
- To establish agreements with other organizations, favoring synergies that generate value for alumni.
Àgora BCN International University Residence
CETT-UB is the only university tourism center that has a student residence, the Àgora 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!
Hotel Alimara
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.
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