Fast Facts
Commencing
- Cairns: January, May, September
- Brisbane: January, May, September
Fees
$32,167.00^
^estimated annual tuition fee for a full-time study load
Plus Student Services and Amenities fee
Fee deferral and scholarships available if eligible
Currently displaying fees for 2025, which are indicative only of the upcoming year's.
Duration
2 years full-time
Entry Requirements
AQF level 7 bachelor degree in any discipline; or equivalent
Course Code
109104
Course detail
Learn from expert lecturers who are leaders in their fields. With a focus on sustainability, innovation and effective leadership, you will learn how to make decisions using critical thinking and analyse high-level issues
Students complete essential core subjects and choose from a range of electives. Get real-world knowledge through your own research project.
Become a leader in the hospitality and tourism sector with this specialist JCU postgraduate course. Advance your career and become a management-level professional with expert knowledge of business operations and administration.
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About JCU's Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management
Equip yourself to deal with the complex issues facing the modern hospitality industry. Launch a new career or propel the one you have through your Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management (similar to a Masters in Hospitality Management) with JCU.
Become a Leader With a Masters in Hospitality
Work with leaders in the field, building your professional network and gaining first-hand experience in making decisions and stepping in to solve problems. Become a master at effective oral and written communication skills through your hospitality masters degree, leading and directing others as you work towards the company’s vision.
Use your skills to help team members collaborate to achieve business success and provide exceptional experiences to guests. Learn to work effectively both independently and within a group. Take ownership for your decisions and practice taking initiative to resolve conflict, bring people together, and inspire those who work under your supervision.
A Hospitality Masters Degree That Gains You Valuable Experience
Virtual reality is no substitute, and through your hotel management masters studies at JCU you will gain direct, real-world experience. Develop your critical thinking and analysis skills through your world-class education. Design and pursue your own research project, applying your theoretical knowledge to practical situations.
Understand how the hospitality industry affects the environment and the economics of community tourism. Become competent at understanding different value systems embraced by varying cultures and how this plays into issues within the industry.
Learn how to use revenue management skills and dynamic pricing to grow a property. Build your accounting and financing skills on the principles of marketing management and tourism system analysis to provide an experience that visitors want. Become competitive in the global market with an enhanced knowledge of cross-cultural issues and how to market a destination.
Build a Sustainable Future with a Masters in Tourism Management
Prepare to meet the challenges of the future with our hotel management masters degree. Understand how issues of sustainability and social justice integrate with the hospitality industry. Be a part of research that matters.
Learn how the hospitality industry can promote the importance of local cultures and socio-economic systems while providing the highest level of service to visitors. Use your skills and position to advocate for ethical environmental and economic practices.
Pursue Your Passions as You Launch a Career
Build on your interest in personal interaction, travel, and business to launch a successful career. Use your hospitality management masters anywhere in the world, ensuring customer safety and comfort, and coordinating the efforts of others.
Combine your Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management with a Master of Business Administration. Develop the skills employers want to see or use this degree as a strong foundation to become an entrepreneur.
Prepare yourself to work in traditional hospitality jobs at hotels, convention centres and resorts. Add value to government departments and tourism boards. Use your understanding of hospitality and gastronomy to become a catering director, or launch your own consulting or tourism enterprise.
Build Your Own Future With a Hospitality Masters
Be ready today for tomorrow with your hospitality masters from JCU. Build on your existing skills, learn new skills, and gain a multifaceted understanding of the hospitality field, and the future.
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Joint degree options
Joint degrees give postgraduate students expertise in a complementary discipline in reduced time and can enhance your career prospects. At JCU the Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management can be combined as a joint degree in the Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management - Master of Business Administration.
Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University’s learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession. For more information please review the inherent requirements for the Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Your career path could lead you to work in hotels, resorts, convention centres, and other hospitality and tourism venues, as well as government departments or private companies like airports, meetings, events and tour operators, in Australia and overseas.
Graduates find employment in roles such as general managers, sales and marketing directors, human resources managers, event managers, convention services managers, front office directors, directors of catering, and managers of information technology.
Estimated annual tuition fee: $AUD32,167.00
A Student Services and Amenities fee is payable per subject up to a maximum amount per year.
A variety of Scholarships are available to suit different student types.
JCU offers multiple Pathways to University. If you do not meet the entry requirements for this course, consider exploring our available Pathways options.
Contact our friendly team today to discover which pathway is right for you.
Complete an online application through our Online Application Portal.
Real stories
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Alumni
Nikki Giumelli
Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management
Through the MITHM I’ve learnt the ability to critically study the key structures, opportunities and challenges within the tourism industry and to develop strategies to positivity influence the sector. This course will enable me to achieve senior management or executive roles within the Government or private sector.
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International Student - Indonesia
Heri Setiyorini
Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management
JCU offers Tourism as a specific study for a doctoral degree, and not many institutions have tourism-focused studies. JCU also has expert tourism academics. My country has abundant natural potentials for tourism, so the principles of sustainability in tourism are valuable for me to learn.
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International Student - Sri Lanka
Sajana Perera
Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management
This course enables you to specialise your knowledge, which will help you to advance your career. The Tourism and Hospitality industry requires a lot of problem-solving and critical thinking skills, which I strongly believe you can develop in this course.
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Lecturer
Professor Gianna Moscardo
Tourism, Hospitality and Events
JCU Tourism is recognised as world leaders in tourism sustainability, visitor experience, and using tourism as a tool for regional and community development. You can gain professional skills in tourism and hospitality at the same time as you learn how to change the world to be a better place.
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Premier Industry Partner
Monique Harmer
General Manager, Pullman Cairns International
There is a range of really strong industry partnerships that have been developed, which allows students the opportunities to work in the industry with great organisations while they’re studying. You have the opportunity to develop your work experience at the same time as gaining your theoretical knowledge.