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AIHM Congratulates the Class of 2024

AIHM Congratulates the Class of 2024 and Our First BBA Graduates

On Saturday, 5 October 2024, several of our AIHM students made history. As they walked across the stage and took their degrees in hand, they achieved something no one else has accomplished before. Together, they became the inaugural cohort of students to earn aBachelor of Business Administrationin Global Hospitality Management from the Asian Institute of Hospitality Management in academic association with Les Roches. Congratulations to our first BBA graduates and their fellow graduates in the Certificate and Diploma tracks!

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The Senior Session: A Conversation with AIHM’s Graduating Leaders

As the last semester drew to a close,Samantha Lauver-Marionsat down with four of AIHM’s graduating students as they completed their Bachelor of Business Administration in Global Hospitality Management

What were there favourite moments from their time at AIHM? How do they plan to benefit from their AIHM educations moving forward? What advice to they have for new students? Find out below. 

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meet-the-instructor:-Dr.-Natasha-Doowa

Meet the Instructor: Dr. Natasha Doowa

Dr. Natasha Doowa is not only a seasoned lecturer with over a decade of experience in business and hospitality education but also a passionate advocate for continuous learning and personal growth. With her deep roots in the hospitality industry—having grown up in a family dedicated to the field—Dr. Natasha brings a wealth of real-world insight to her classroom.

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Work-Life Balance in Focus

Insights from the Next Generation of Young Leaders

In this series on the lessons learned from the AIHM Employer Forum 2024, we’ve already covered two of the biggest motivating factors for the next generation of young leaders: an embrace of Individuality and Value-alignment. The emerging generation seek employers who recognise strength in diversity and support them in uniting their individual talents and identities with company visions. More than ever before, new graduates are focused on the values of the brands they’re exploring as potential employers, and they are specifically looking for brands whose values and worldviews align with their own.

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So You Want to Be a Hotel Manager

So You Want to Be a Hotel Manager

Do you want to be a memory maker? Dreaming of a career where you can express your creativity and play a starring role in bringing many of people’s most important moments to life? 

Weddings, honeymoons, family vacations, romantic getaways, business trips, company retreats, fine dining events…for some people these are once-in-a-lifetime events. For a hotel manager, they’re a part of everyday life!

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Why ‘AIHM Higher’

Why ‘AIHM Higher’?

If you’re reading this post, you may have noticed you’re on the AIHM Higher blog. That’s what we call this little ‘digital press’ you’re on. The AIHM Higher blog is where our community of educators, learners and guest experts share their visions and experiences.

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The Impact of AI on Teachers

The Impact of AI on Teachers

Open any popular news magazine today and you will find articles proclaiming artificial intelligence’s status as a major disruptor of industry. AI is changing the way we work. It’s transforming the market. It’s upending the working processes we’ve used for years, the tools we’ve come to rely on, the speed and efficiency of completing tasks, and the realm of what’s possible—or at the very least, feasible. AI isn’t just impacting the activities of corporate offices though. Those of us in the education sphere are feeling its disruptions at least as equally.

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Meet the Instructor: Philip Reid

Meet the Instructor: Philip Reid

He has a flair for drama…very fitting considering his storied theatrical background. Actor, stage director, educator—Philip Reid knows what it takes to grab his audience and take them on a journey. Students in his English classes make rapid progress as he entertains, inspires and makes learning fun.

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When Values Align, The Stars Align & Innovation is Inevitable

When Values Align, The Stars Align & Innovation is Inevitable

Recruiting the Best and Brightest of the Next Generation of Leaders

In my previous post How to Catch a Star” I introduced one of the biggest driving forces in recruiting, supporting and achieving with the emerging generation of young university graduates. That force: individuality. Today’s graduates want to feel valued for who they are as a person and what they bring to the spaces they occupy. As we saw and discussed in that post, this desire to recognised and respected as an individual and to be invited to thrive by leaning into those points of individuality…well, it’s a basic desire most of us share. 

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Public Speaking, One Step at a Time

Public Speaking, One Step at a Time

If you’re scared of heights, would you rush to the top of a ladder? An experienced construction worker or someone who cleans the windows of skyscrapers for a living would be happy to just hop on the ladder and zoom their way up to the top. They’re used to it. Climbing up to a lofty height is something they’ve done many times before. We can use this as a comparison to public speaking.

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