All our courses are designed and tailor made to suit the competitive demand of the tourism & hospitality industry. Our courses are varied across the following industry specific areas;

• Restaurant and Bar
• Professional Cookery
• Food and Beverage
• Front Office Management
• Hotel House Keeping
• Travel and Tourism

Modules necessary for professional qualifications

Food and Beverage Operations

Hotel House Keeping

Housekeeping is one of the most important parts of the guest experience and its impact on the success of a hotel cannot be underestimated. The quality of the housekeeping staff’s work and the operation is crucial in shaping a guest’s memories of their stay and cleanliness and presentation of rooms in addition to Housekeeping’s ability to meet high demands plays a key role in guest satisfaction and the generation of repeat guests.

In order to mold the students to meet the industry standards of Hotel Housekeeping, SLITHM offers courses at Craft level, Certificate and Intermediate level housekeeping to train students with the required practical knowledge and skills to take up employment in the hospitality industry locally and abroad presenting a systematic approach to managing housekeeping operations and providing a thorough overview, from the big picture of maintaining a quality staff, planning, and organizing, to the technical details of cleaning each area of a hospitality facility.

Our Advance level Accommodation Operations course is designed to educate, train and develop students who possess the necessary entry level Housekeeping knowledge and skills and thus who seek and aspire to be professionals in the field of Hospitality.

Possible job opportunities would include;
  -  Executive Housekeeper

  -  Housekeeping attendants

  -  Engineer or Maintenance supervisor

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Restaurant and Bar

Our hands on practical courses on Restaurant & Bar will start your career in the hospitality industry giving you the skills and confidence for restaurant and alcohol setup and service in a bar or restaurant situation.

The courses are designed to prepare students to take up operative grade/ skill level jobs in hotels, guest houses, restaurants and other food and accommodation providing establishment.

Some of the activities and course topics include -
    Bar equipment and operations
    F & B controls
    Financial management
    Wine Studies
    Restaurant skill demonstrations
    Field visits to star class hotels

Possible job opportunities would include;
  -   Bar attendant
  -   Room Service staff
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Front Office Management

The Front Office in a hotel is considered as the nerve centre and would typically consist of the lobby, reception, concierge, bell desk, cashier in a large scale hotel where the front office processes include reservations, room allocation, guest registration, check-in, guest requirement and guest tracking, meal plan report generation, cancellation of reservations and no show, check out. Being the most visible part the front office creates the first impression of the hotel and sets the tone for the guest’s stay.

The Front Office management courses at SLITHM are designed to provide students with sound technical and social skills to enable them to perform Hotel front office operations. Students who register under the 3 year Management Diploma will be able to understand the fundamentals of the front office department, product characteristics, and communication ethics in relation to front office department to basic systems and procedures of front office and back office to ensure the smooth operation and on successful completion join junior management level position in a star class hotel.

Possible job opportunities would include;
  -   Front office manager
  -   Lobby manager
  -   Reservations manager
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Professional Cookery

If you are passionate about cooking and love to be in the kitchen then the courses offered at SLITHM in professional cookery will be an ideal foundation for a lucrative career in cooking. The courses will give a thorough understanding on not only preparing all kinds of food from various sections of a kitchen but also teach the structure of hotel and restaurant operation specifically kitchen organization in relation to other departments and recognize customer needs and preferences in the domestic market as well as over cross border and regional tourist destinations.

Possible career opportunities
Chef
Pastry chef

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Diploma in Hospitality Management

The Diploma in hospitality management offered by SLITHM is a three year programme spreading across six semesters. This diploma focuses on both hospitality and hotel management training which upon successful completion, will help you find employment in the hotel industry locally as well as internationally. Qualifications are increasingly sought after in the hospitality and tourism industry and this diploma will put you on the fast-track to a career in junior management level job in the hospitality industry with a view of developing further through higher level educational programmes.

Key Features –

  -   You will train in the front office, restaurant, bar and kitchen of a working hotel
  -   Your diploma includes service training for 6 months after completion of 4 semesters
  -   You can specialise in a growth area of hopitality management - students have the option of one elective in either;

Landscaping
Interior designing
Web designing

  -   During your diploma you will also learn a foreign language other than English and develop personal and professional skills together with a sound education in IT, Marketing, Law, Economics, Accounting, Industrial relations, and Human Resources Management which are essential in the highly challenging hospitality industry.


Job roles

Individuals with this qualification are able to perform roles such as:
    managing a department in a large hospitality enterprise
    managing a small hospitality enterprise.

Possible job opportunities would include:
    Restaurant manager
    Kitchen manager
    Front office manager

Diploma in Travel and Tourism Management

This one year, part-time diploma programme provides the skills and knowledge for students to be competent in a broad range of managerial skills in tourism operations, travel and tourism marketing and product planning and development preparing them to meet the challenges of the ever changing tourism industry. The qualification allows for multi-skilling related to tourism and travel industry.

Job roles
Individuals with this qualification are able to work in any sector of the tourism industry as a junior manager, manager or owner–operator of any style of small tourism business. Some managers at this level will specialise in certain fields; in the tourism industry personnel tend to specialise in operational functions or tourism marketing and product development roles.

Possible job opportunities would include:
    visitor information centre manager
    operations manager
    manager – tour operations
    manager – cultural tour operations
    inbound groups manager
    reservations manager or call centre manager
    retail travel agency manager
    visitor information centre manager
    director (owner–operator small tourism business)
    manager (owner–operator small tourism business)
    sales manager
    marketing manager
    product manager
    tourism manager
    inbound sales manager.