Since 1991 the Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School
has provided international qualifications in hospitality and tourism management
to over 2,500 graduates, many now in senior management positions worldwide.
Affiliation/Importance/About the school
Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School has adopted the famous Swiss
Hotel School model of teaching and learning. This approach balances and integrates
theoretical knowledge with practical training. As well as attending lectures, seminars
and tutorials each academic term, students gain rigorous practical training and
learn discipline, teamwork and leadership skills as the staff of a fully operational,
simulated hotel on the Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School campus.
Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School believes managers are more
effective leaders if they know how to do every job that their staff have to do.
Outside the classroom, the students learn by doing real-life work across the key
departments of a hotel: the kitchen, service and rooms division. On a daily basis,
students gain hands-on experience in every role in each department. Yes this means
cooking meals, setting tables, carrying plates, making beds, cleaning rooms and
checking guests in and out at reception. Students work industry hours with early
and late shifts and are expected to perform – with – mentoring – to industry standards.
The school has excellent academic qualifications and extensive managerial experience
in industry, students benefit from small class sizes and high quality contact with
their teachers.
Campus
The Blue Mountain Hotel School is located in the village of Leura in Blue Mountains,
west of Sydney. It is only 2 hours by train and one and a half hours by car from
the city. Leura is an ideal, quiet and safe location for a period of intensive study.
The campus is located on 2 hectares of landscaped, well established gardens, with
a sunny central courtyard, fishpond with fountain, dovecote and tree- lined paths.
It offers well- appointed, hotel style accommodation for all students. The campus’
modern teaching facilities include lecture rooms, seminar rooms, commercial kitchens,
a demo lab, two computer labs and library and academic resource centre. The Blue
Mountains is renowned for its dramatic sandstone cliffs and gorgeous forested valleys,
home to an amazing variety of birdlife. In 2000, the region had the great honor
to be listed as a World Heritage site of outstanding universal value.