BA in Hospitality Innovation Systems
Course Overview
The BA in Hospitality Innovation Systems is a full BA honours degree in designing and running the innovation systems that keep hospitality businesses competitive, structured across a 36 months full honours (top-up routes available for holders of a Higher Diploma) study window at Bachelor (BA / BSc) standard. Delivery mixes on-campus sessions, live online cohorts and distance-learning packs, with a curriculum aligned with Institute of Hospitality and HOSPA (Hospitality Professionals Association).
By graduation you will step out ready to join an innovation, product or transformation function inside a hotel group, ready to operate inside hospitality technology, digital operations and guest-tech systems at the level the qualification implies.
Alongside the taught content, students on the BA in Hospitality Innovation Systems work through short applied tasks that mirror what happens on the floor, in the back office, or in the commercial team of a working hotel property.
Key Features
- Personal tutor support across the 36 months full honours (top-up routes available for holders of a Higher Diploma) of study.
- Live examples pulled from distribution and OTA platforms and comparable operators.
- Practical work on product-management rituals using real hospitality case material.
- Applied focus on innovation pipelines and guest-tech pilots inside a hotel or resort setting.
- Curriculum aligned with Institute of Hospitality, HOSPA (Hospitality Professionals Association) and other UK sector references.
- Articulation into higher LSHRM routes for students building a longer study path.
What You Will Learn
- How to document test-and-learn budgets clearly for supervisors, colleagues or auditors.
- How to read the KPIs and reporting attached to designing and running the innovation systems that keep hospitality businesses competitive.
- How to plan a personal development trajectory anchored in designing and running the innovation systems that keep hospitality businesses competitive.
- How to run routines around product-management rituals without disrupting guests or teams.
- How to use guest-tech pilots to solve realistic operational problems.
- How to plan and structure work in designing and running the innovation systems that keep hospitality businesses competitive.
- How to apply innovation pipelines inside a working hospitality environment.
- How to reflect on your own performance inside designing and running the innovation systems that keep hospitality businesses competitive and turn it into a personal development plan.
- How to build a portfolio of applied work that supports future professional-body membership applications.
- How to reflect on your own performance inside designing and running the innovation systems that keep hospitality businesses competitive and turn it into a personal development plan.
- How to build a portfolio of applied work that supports future professional-body membership applications.
Who This Course Is For
- Students planning a Master's route into executive hospitality roles.
- Higher Diploma-holders using LSHRM's top-up route into the final year.
- Career-change candidates seeking a full honours degree on a placement pathway.
- International applicants targeting UK hospitality graduate schemes.
Career Pathways
- PMS Administrator
- Reservations Systems Specialist
- Distribution Manager
- Guest Experience Technology Lead
- Hotel Systems Manager
- CRM Manager
Graduates of the BA in Hospitality Innovation Systems typically target roles within digital marketing agencies serving hotels and comparable operators. LSHRM's careers service walks graduates through CV framing, LinkedIn positioning and interview practice, then opens introductions to hospitality recruiters actively hiring in London and further afield. Employers in distribution and OTA platforms and PMS and revenue-tech vendors value graduates who can talk credibly about designing and running the innovation systems that keep hospitality businesses competitive. Your BA in Hospitality Innovation Systems coursework gives you that vocabulary and the applied examples to back it up.
Entry Requirements
- A-Levels (BBC or above) or IB (26+ points) or equivalent overseas qualifications
- A completed Higher Diploma or Advanced Diploma for top-up routes
- IELTS 6.0 overall (no band under 5.5) or equivalent English proficiency
- Personal statement outlining career objectives in the hospitality sector
- Two academic or professional references
Why Study at LSHRM
LSHRM is the London School of Hotel and Resort Management, a specialist division of Harold International College of London focused on the operational and strategic disciplines that keep modern hotels, resorts and integrated hospitality businesses running. Every LSHRM programme is aligned with recognised UK professional bodies including the Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality, HOSPA and the British Institute of Innkeeping so graduates step into the sector with credible, industry-referenced study behind them.
Our curriculum is shaped by former hoteliers, revenue leaders, housekeeping directors and hospitality technologists, and every programme is delivered across on-campus, online and distance-learning routes to fit working professionals as well as international students. Bachelor graduates can continue directly into LSHRM's Master's programmes, joining the pipeline for general management, executive and consultancy roles inside hospitality.
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