Certificate in Hotel Operations

Solid Step Forward to Hospitality, Business Travel and Tourism Careers
 
Course approval: KPT/JPS(KA10213)10/14
 
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What It Can Do For You
Provide broad-based experiential learning in hospitality practices, procedures and skills, event management and culinary arts.

Open doors to exciting and rewarding careers with bright prospects in the booming, global hospitality, business travel and tourism industries such as:

  • Lodging - Hotels, motels, resorts
  • Food service - Restaurants, cafeterias, cafes, fast food operations, contract food services, event food catering
  • Clubs - Country clubs, city clubs, golf clubs, swimming clubs, health and fitness clubs
  • Industrial areas - Transportation, airline food service, company cafeterias
  • Events - Business conventions, expositions, conferences
  • Entertainment and leisure - Theme parks, casinos, concerts, cinemas, arcades
  • Travel and tourism - Travel agencies, airlines, airports, luxury cruise liners, tourist information agencies
  • Allied fields - Equipment sales, retail operations, consulting, purchasing, education, cooking schools

Well prepared for further studies, progressing from diploma to degree level at DISTED:

Diploma
Diploma in Hospitality Business Management 

Degree
Staffordshire University (UK)
BA(Hons) Business Management
BA(Hons) International Business Management
BA(Hons) Marketing Management

What You Study
The typical course units with their respective credit hours indicated in brackets are listed below.

Bakery (3)
Basic Hotel and Restaurant Accounting (4)
Communication English (3)
Convention Management and Service (4)
Food and Beverage Service I (3)
Food and Beverage Service II (3)
Food Production I (3)
Food Production II (3)
Housekeeping Operations I (3)
Housekeeping Operations II (3)




Introduction to Hospitality Industry (4)
Managing Front Office Operations (4)
Marketing in Hospitality Industry (4)
Patisserie (3)
Practical Training (4)
Study Skills (3)
Bahasa Kebangsaan A (MQA) (3)
Pengajian Malaysia (MQA) (3)
Pendidikan Moral / Pengajian Islam (MQA) (3)

 
Your Study Route

 

How Long, When, What You Need To Enrol And Awards

How Long You Study
4 long semesters and 1 short semester over 1 year and 8 months totalling 63 credit hours.

When You Begin Studies
January, March or August

What You Need to Enrol
1 SPM credit

Other equivalent qualifications are accepted.

Forecast examination results are accepted for provisional admission.

Why You Should Join Us
Well-established and highly regarded college in Penang and very experienced in conducting tertiary courses.

Qualified, experienced, dedicated and caring lecturers.

Industry Advisory Panel comprising representatives from prominent enterprises assists in matching the programme with industry needs and employment market trends.

Practical learning through study, instruction, experience or observing others.

Part-time job opportunities in hospitality establishments. 		Excellent academic and pastoral care to students.

Small class size with close personal attention by lecturers.

Close monitoring of students’ academic progress.

Ideal learning environment at the DISTED School of Hospitality Campus with state-of-the-art industry standard facilities.

 


Fee Schedule & Intake Dates

 
 Certificate in Hotel Operations
Intakes: 3 January, 19 March and 7 August 2012
 
The course fees are available upon request.