Diploma of Hospitality Management

You will gain practical skills tailored to working in restaurants, cafes, hotels and other hospitality areas. You'll learn and apply your skills in our fully equipped hospitality training centre under the guidance of passionate industry experts.

Areas of study include:

• staff management
• strategic business operations
• food and beverage service
• safety
• business marketing.

During your course you will have access to leading industry standard software, including Opera Property used in many leading hotels throughout Australia. You will learn the skills to use the system and manage hotel front office operations, including creating reservations, managing accounts and check out.

You will also gain essential skills in restaurant operations systems such as Micros POS.

TAFE study dates and breaks.

After graduating, you could find employment in the following positions:

• banquet or function manager
• bar manager
• cafe manager
• club manager
• front office manager
• motel manager
• restaurant manager.

Check the government job-date site, Labour Market Insights, for information on employment and salaries for management and other roles in the hospitality sector.

The course structure comprises the following core and elective units. These electives have been selected based on industry needs, graduate pathways and/or student and teacher feedback.

To be awarded SIT50416 Diploma of Hospitality Management, a student must successfully complete a total of twenty-eight (28) units of competency, comprising of:

• thirteen (13) core units, and;
• fifteen (15) elective units, consisting of:
• one (1) unit from Group A;
• one (1) unit from Group B;
• eight (8) units from Group C, and;
• five (5) units from Group C, elsewhere in SIT Training Package, or any other current training package or accredited course.

The selection of electives must be guided by the job outcome sought, local industry requirements and the complexity of skills appropriate to the AQF level of this qualification, as well as be approved by the Polytechnic.

Use our credit calculator to find out how much credit you could get towards your course, based on your previous study.

You may be able to complete your qualification sooner through formal recognition of your existing skills. This is known as Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

To receive RPL, we assess your previous work, education and life experiences against recognised qualifications. Applications for RPL can be made prior to enrolling.

Call us on 1300 TAFE VP (1300 823 387) to discuss RPL options with the course manager.