Higher Diploma in Global Hospitality Studies
Course Overview
The Higher Diploma in Global Hospitality Studies is a UK Level 5 qualification running 15 to 18 months, with structured articulation into a UK Bachelor's top-up. Sitting inside LSCAHM's Executive & Integrated Hospitality Studies department, it is aligned with Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality and Chartered Management Institute standards, and gives working practitioners the wide-lens understanding to move into cross-brand and cross-geography roles.
By graduation, students are reading global hospitality operations across brand, service and market layers, and completing a supervised workplace or capstone project set against a live multi-market hospitality brief.
Key Features
- Level 5 modules aligned with Institute of Hospitality graduate expectations.
- Applied workshops on brand portfolio management, cross-cultural service and international operations.
- Case studies from luxury London hotel groups and international brand operators.
- Credit transfer confirmed in writing into a UK Bachelor's top-up.
- Named programme-tutor support from working global hospitality practitioners.
- Workplace or capstone project supervised by industry-active tutors.
What You Will Learn
- Read global hospitality operations across brand, geography and consumer segment.
- Design service standards adapted to different cultural expectations.
- Analyse hospitality brand portfolios across segment and market.
- Manage cross-cultural teams and expatriate operating norms.
- Support international transfer, secondment and relocation programmes.
- Apply UK regulatory frameworks alongside comparative international norms.
- Design brand standards uplift programmes for multi-market operators.
- Deliver a workplace or capstone project for a live multi-market brief.
Who This Course Is For
- Hospitality supervisors targeting international operations roles.
- Brand standards leads moving to multi-market responsibility.
- Working practitioners preparing for overseas secondments.
- International applicants seeking a UK Level 5 global hospitality credential with articulation.
Career Pathways
- International Hospitality Operations Manager
- Brand Standards Lead
- Regional Hospitality Coordinator
- Global Programme Manager (Hospitality)
- Cluster Operations Manager
- Guest Experience Director
- Hospitality Programme Manager
The LSCAHM careers service partners with luxury hotel groups and multi-market operators to open interviews for cross-brand and cross-geography hospitality roles.
Entry Requirements
- A relevant Diploma (Level 4) in hospitality or business, an Advanced Diploma or comparable qualification.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C or equivalent.
- IELTS 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5) for non-native English speakers.
- One academic or professional reference.
- Working professionals moving from hotel supervisor, F&B associate or event coordinator roles are welcomed.
Why Study at LSCAHM
The London School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management is a specialist division of Harold International College of London teaching in small, tutor-visible cohorts. LSCAHM reads culinary arts, hospitality management, tourism, events and food business as interlocking disciplines, giving global hospitality students a working understanding of the whole ecosystem.
Central London places luxury hotel head offices, the Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality and HOSPA within a short tube ride of every classroom, and three parallel study modes let working practitioners complete the Higher Diploma without leaving employment.
Apply for Higher Diploma in Global Hospitality Studies
Complete a Higher Diploma at LSCAHM and articulate into a UK Bachelor's top-up in the same discipline. Credit transfer is confirmed at enrolment, admissions responds within one working day, and your programme tutor is named before induction. Enrol Now
