MA in Hospitality Leadership and Strategy
Course Overview
The MA in Hospitality Leadership and Strategy is a UK Level 7 research-informed Master's programme running one year full-time or two years part-time. It is aligned with Institute of Hospitality, Chartered Management Institute and UKHospitality senior standards, and prepares hospitality leaders to shape strategy at hotel, restaurant group and multi-brand levels.
By graduation, students are running strategic reviews, chairing executive committees, leading multi-outlet portfolios, and closing the programme with a dissertation, capstone or sponsor consulting project written for a live hospitality client.
Key Features
- Research-informed curriculum aligned with Institute of Hospitality senior standards.
- Modules covering strategy design, hospitality economics, transformation and leadership psychology.
- Applied case studies from luxury London hotel groups and multi-brand restaurant companies.
- Weekly research seminars supported by named tutors from senior executive practice.
- Dissertation, capstone or sponsor consulting project supervised by industry-active researchers.
- Structured pathway into Institute of Hospitality senior membership.
What You Will Learn
- Design multi-property and multi-brand hospitality strategy.
- Read hospitality financials at group and portfolio level.
- Lead executive teams through change and transformation.
- Design workforce, ED&I and talent strategy at group scale.
- Structure ESG, sustainability and community programmes.
- Analyse M&A, franchise and management-contract structures.
- Represent the sector to policy, media and industry-body stakeholders.
- Structure a research dissertation to UK postgraduate expectations.
Who This Course Is For
- General managers moving toward regional or brand director roles.
- Head-office hospitality professionals in strategy, HR or brand.
- Multi-unit restaurant executives targeting group leadership.
- Career changers with senior management experience entering hospitality.
- International postgraduate applicants pursuing a UK MA in hospitality leadership.
Career Pathways
- Regional Hospitality Manager
- Group Operations Manager
- Hospitality Strategy Analyst
- Hospitality Business Consultant
- Innovation Manager (Hospitality)
- Hospitality Programme Manager
- Guest Experience Director
The LSCAHM careers service partners with luxury hotel groups, restaurant companies and hospitality consultancies across London to open senior progression conversations, and runs at least one industry-careers day each year focused on strategic hospitality leadership.
Entry Requirements
- A UK Bachelor's degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent international qualification in a relevant discipline.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Applicants without a Bachelor's degree but with 5+ years of senior hospitality experience are considered on portfolio.
- One academic and one professional reference.
- A 500-word research proposal or professional practice statement focused on hospitality strategy.
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, which is precisely the operating map senior strategists need.
Central London places luxury hotel groups, the Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality, HOSPA and major consulting firms within a short tube ride of every classroom, and three parallel study modes let senior practitioners complete the MA without leaving employment.
Apply for MA in Hospitality Leadership and Strategy
Enrol on the LSCAHM MA in Hospitality Leadership and Strategy. Your dissertation, capstone or sponsor project will be supervised by practising hoteliers and industry executives, admissions responds within one working day, and your programme tutor is named before induction. Enrol Now
