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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. 

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

If you’re my age, you remember learning in school on a slate chalkboard and an abacus. A “computer” sounded like a strange, cute little creature. And the internet? Is that a tool for catching fish?

I’m joking. Mostly! But the tools available for learners today have evolved dramatically. Today’s young people have the opportunity to learn in so many new and different ways. As educators, we have the possibility and the responsibility to turbo-boost our students’ learning with a wide range of modern tactics and up-to-date technology.

Dr. Yuth Thongcharoen initially joined the Asian Institute of Hospitality Management at the end of 2023 as an AIHM Expert in our Executive Education management skills training programme. With his successful academic career at higher education institutes in Thailand in addition to his background in management and entertainment as well as a doctoral degree in Language and Communication, he was a perfect fit teaching memorable workshops on topics likePresentation Skills and Start Your First Business.

In January of 2023, Christian Terwiesch—Co-Director of the Mack Institute of Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School—published a fascinating white paper: “Would ChatGPT Get a Wharton MBA?” Terwiesch performed an experiment. He challenged ChatGPT 3 to take the final exam for a sample Wharton MBA course. The results? ChatGPT would have earned a grade of a B to B-.