MBA Tourism and Hospitality Management at IIM Sirmaur Offline Course

The Master of Business Administration (Tourism & Hospitality Management) is a two-year full-time residential sectoral Programme. Each academic year consists of three trimesters, leading to the grant of Degree of MBA (Tourism & Hospitality Management). The first year of the programme will encompass core courses that explain the fundamental concepts of management theories and practices across different functional areas. The first-year coursework shall be mandatory for all the students followed by a summer internship and International Immersion Programme (IIP). The summer internship is for a period of six to eight weeks where the students are required to work on tourism related projects. IIP is proposed as a voluntary activity after Term-III for students to have an exposure to international business in general and tourism in particular.

In the second year, students shall be offered core and functional elective courses across different areas of specialisation in Tourism and Hospitality sectors. Students can select their preferred elective courses, insofar as they fulfil the minimum credit requirements for the Programme. Students who successfully fulfil all the requirements of the Programme shall be awarded the Degree in MBA (Tourism & Hospitality Management).

The curriculum pedagogy shall be a combination of lectures, flip classroom sessions, case studies, online resources, field work, project assignments, lab sessions, etc. The Programme combines to offer core business knowledge and management skills, including Entrepreneurship, Special Interest Tourism, Tourism Planning, Tourism Analytics, Contemporary Hotel and Travel Management, and the like.

MBA (Tourism & Hospitality Management) aims to enrich the students who are keen to develop their career and knowledge in Tourism and Hospitality industry. The Programme intends to provide special emphasis on familiarizing students with actual ground level operations, its business strategies and marketing of tourism as well as hospitality products and services.