Hospitality Management

The degree in Hospitality Management challenges you to develop your talents and learn to be agile in a fast-paced and rapidly changing world. Right from the start, you learn essential skills on the job so that they become part of your nature. As well as developing your understanding of essential subjects such as marketing, finance, law and human resources, you'll develop your insights into the importance of sustainability, corporate responsibility and global citizenship.

When empathy and a service-minded attitude come naturally to you, and you enjoy meeting people from all over the world, then the Hospitality Management programme at Hotel Management School Leeuwarden at NHL Stenden is perfect for you. In turn, we offer an open and welcoming environment: hostmanship at its best.

This management course at Hotel Management School Leeuwarden prepares you for the rapidly changing environment of the hospitality industry. You develop your skills and knowledge of hospitality, gastronomy, catering, events, human resources, marketing, sales and finance. You also work in our own four-star hotel Notiz and in our on-campus restaurants and eateries. This gives you the chance to not only experience how hospitality works in practice and explore different catering concepts, but also learn how to think strategically at a management level and how to carry out research. The diversity of the programme means you’ll experience everything from lectures in the theory of business management to tasting the most delicious wines in a wine class. As this is an international study, the language of instruction is English and your fellow students come from all over the world.

Specialisations

You can take these minors on the Leeuwarden campus or at one of the NHL Stenden Grand Tour locations in South Africa, Bali or Thailand. You can also choose from minors offered by other courses and universities of applied sciences – this is all part of broadening your academic skills.

• Gastronomy(Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, Thailand and Italy). Learn about the interaction between humans and their food and develop as an expert in gastronomy, knowledgeable about senosry interaction and capable of recognising and defining flavours in food and wine.
• Food & Beverage Management (Leeuwarden, the Netherlands). Offering in-depth knowledge of the food & beverage industry, the trends & developments, ethical and legal aspects and industry concepts, this minor is for future food & beverage professionals. It also offers a wine-tasting qualification.
• Advanced Wine Studies (South Africa). This minor challenges you to develop your palate so as to be able to evaluate and blind taste wine. It offers an intensive grounding in viticulture and vinicultural practices and prepares you for a Wine Masters qualification.
• Event Management(all NHL Stenden branches). This minor provides a realistic insight into the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions industry and what is needed to organise events successfully. Each location gives the minor its own twist to suit the local market.
• Spa Business Strategy(Bali). Focusing on how to develop, manage and sustain a spa business solution, this minor looks at strategies, insights into local markets and feasibility of creative concepts as well as understanding the holistic philosophies behind the spa industry.

Kastu feedback about the program after the visit

• NHL has super great NOTIZ Hotel (4*) ran by students.
• NHL has super great restaurant with the highest quality food - Restaurant Wannee (led by former Michelin Star Chef Albert Kooy).
• All around campus NHL have places where students work (Canteen (with great food and huge selection of meals), Student Café, Coffee bar, Conference and events).
• Mostly it's one week of lectures and one week of practical work in one of the universities places (cafes, restaurant, hotel and other), the students get the ability to work in several different places during their studies.
• Each of these places are run by students who are supervised by professionals. Each year students are given more responsibility (Year 1: Operational; Year 2: Supervisor; Year 3: Manager; Year 4: Internship).