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What is ‘Practical Magic’? No, I’m not talking about the 1998 film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. I’m talking about the transformative power of Practical Arts studies in a hospitality education. The Practical Arts are a keystone of the world-famous Swiss-style hospitality education model.

Naureen Ahmed is the founder of Inspiring Women in Hospitality, an organisation whose aim is to share the stories of inspirational women within the hospitality industry. A global hospitality professional, a multicultural inclusive leader and an AEHL graduate, she believes each one of us has a unique story and journey to share that will inspire us all.

Few careers in the world enable an amazing journey like a career in hospitality. Hospitality offers a platform for creating dream experiences, and its practitioners get to work in some of the most amazing settings in the world. So do AIHM’s interns.

AIHM’s Certificate in International Hotel Administration helps early- and mid-career professionals take their career to higher levels. How does the CIHA help you grow? Watch the interview below with CIHA graduate Siraphop “Sira” Watthanabaramisakun to find out.

If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably filled with ambition. You have a passion for success. Walk into the business section of any bookstore and start scanning the shelves. You’ll find book after book touting the authors’ system, or process, or formula, or acronym for achieving success. Everyone wants to acquire the secret to being a commercial powerhouse or a professional prodigy. I can sum up the secret for you in two words: lifelong learning.

AIHM’s Head of Student Engagement, Samantha Lauver-Marion, sat down with HAFIDH AL BUSAIDY the General Manager at Niyama Private Islands Maldives to chat about careers in hospitalityand theAIHM scholarship for Maldivians in honour of Dr. Maniku. This competitive full scholarship is available to Maldivian students who are interested in pursuing a career in hospitality management.

What do people think of you when they come across your name? What would they think of you if they Googled you or stumbled across your social media accounts? What do you want them to think you?

Are you struggling to come up with a clear answer? Do you have an answer, but that answer makes you nervous? Then, thePersonal Branding Courseis for you.

The key to career growth and staying on top of your field is lifelong learning—and AIHM now offers 15 different keys to open the doors to higher levels of success. AIHM provides you with 15 different Executive Education short courses covering the most critical topics for the hospitality industry and fields beyond. Choose from diversity of courses to upskill, upgrade your knowledge and learn practical new tools and techniques you can put into action as soon as you complete a two-day course.

“I am not confident.” “It is so difficult.” “I do not understand.” These are some of the most common sentences I hear when people talk about learning English.

I often ask people, “Do you speak English?”

“No, I do not,” comes the answer.  My reply: “Well you just understood me and answered in English!”

AIHM’s Executive Education short courses provide industry professionals the opportunity to upskill, to upgrade their knowledge and to put practical new tools and techniques into action as soon as they complete a two-day course. Taught by guest experts and AIHM’s own passionate faculty, our Executive Education courses tackle the most important topics and talents required to succeed in today’s hospitality industry and in fields beyond.

Gain a sneak preview of the Public Speakingcourse in this Q&A with its instructor, Samantha Lauver-Marion.