Hotelschool The Hague is an international business school offering study programmes aimed at the
international hospitality industry.The main programme is the 4-year Bachelor Degree Course, which leads to the internationally recognized degree: Bachelor Business Administration in Hotel Management (BBA.HM).
This programme is also offered in a fast track version, which takes approximately two years.
The study programme has theoretical and practical parts (working in school’s outlets: hotel, restaurants, etc.) and also comprises placements.
The type of placements relate to the set up of our curriculum.
The end terms of the curriculum are based on the professional situation of an international hospitality
manager. We have captured this international hospitality profession into nine separate professional
duty categories (PDC’s) and two professional excellence categories (PEC’s). These categories form
the foundation of our curriculum: the content and didactics of courses.
Professional Duty Categories (PDC)
1. Understanding the ins-and-outs of creating and providing hospitality
2. Initiating and creating new hospitality products and services, independently innovatively and enterprising
3. Developing strategy, based on a vision to deal with changes / forces in the external hospitality business environment, including the strategic development of hospitality networks and relations
4. Analyzing hospitality company policy issues, translating these to internal objectives,and making concrete plans for implementation at the level of a department or business function
5. Analyzing financial performance, the internal hospitality environment, information and processes to strengthen coherence and interaction (reciprocity)
6. Designing, controlling and improving organizational and hospitality business processes
7. Dealing with the power and influences of (external) stakeholders, such as the owners, bankers, regulators, distributors, clients, society, et cetera
8. Optimizing human resources in light of the organizational strategy
9. Developing, implementing and evaluating change processes in hospitality organizations
Professional Excellence Categories (PEC)
10. Putting to action and using the social, communicative and languages skills
11. Putting to action and using self steering and intrapersonal skills
The placements are meant for the student to further practice these Categories.
We distinguish between two levels which we call: Practical Level and Management Level.
The difference between the two levels is further explained in the separate submenus.
