BA in Hospitality Leadership and Innovation
Course Overview
The BA in Hospitality Leadership and Innovation at LSCAHM is a UK Level 6 honours degree of three years full-time, with part-time and accelerated routes available. It is delivered by the Executive & Integrated Hospitality Studies department and is aligned with leadership and innovation themes referenced by the Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Leadership & Management. Year-two students complete a placement inside a hospitality group or innovation-led operator.
By graduation you will be leading integrated hospitality change: framing a business case, coordinating chef, floor and revenue teams, running structured innovation cycles, and defending change programmes in front of boards and investors.
Key Features
- Level 6 honours degree with mandatory year-two placement in a hospitality group.
- Modules mapped to leadership and innovation themes referenced by the Institute of Hospitality and CMI.
- Structured innovation cycles run with real hospitality-operator case data.
- Change-management and communication clinics with practising executives.
- Named programme tutor across on-campus, online and distance modes.
- Final-year dissertation or applied innovation project.
- Introductions to UK hospitality groups and hospitality-tech innovators.
What You Will Learn
- Framing hospitality problems as change and innovation cycles.
- Coordinating chef, floor, revenue and events teams through a change programme.
- Running structured innovation with staged experiments and reviews.
- Reading integrated hospitality P&L, RevPAR and productivity data.
- Applying research-informed leadership routines.
- Presenting change and innovation business cases to boards.
- Coaching senior supervisors and duty managers through transformation.
- Managing ethical, inclusive and mental-health-aware leadership routines.
Who This Course Is For
- Applicants with A-levels or equivalent targeting integrated hospitality leadership.
- Diploma and Advanced Diploma holders progressing to a full UK honours degree.
- International students seeking a UK Bachelor's with placement.
- Career changers with strategy, consulting or transformation backgrounds.
Career Pathways
- Hospitality Operations Manager
- Executive Assistant Manager
- Group Operations Manager
- Innovation Manager (Hospitality)
- Hospitality Programme Manager
- Culinary & Hospitality Integrator
- Hospitality Sustainability Lead
- General Manager (progression)
The LSCAHM careers service pairs BA students with UK hospitality groups, private members' clubs, hospitality-tech businesses and consulting practices.
Entry Requirements
- A-levels (or equivalent) at BBB or above, OR a UK Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Two academic references and a personal statement covering interest in hospitality leadership and innovation.
- International applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation support from LSCAHM admissions for the BA in Hospitality Leadership and Innovation.
Why Study at LSCAHM
LSCAHM is a specialist division of Harold International College of London reading culinary, hospitality, tourism and events as one interlocking guest journey. Integrated hospitality leadership is central to how LSCAHM teaches, and the Executive & Integrated Hospitality Studies department is built specifically for people who can lead across kitchen, floor, revenue and destination at the same time.
Central London places luxury hotel groups, hospitality-tech operators, the Institute of Hospitality and CMI within a short tube ride of every classroom.
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