Institute of Hospitality · RQF Level 4
Institute of Hospitality Level 4 Diploma in Advanced Hospitality and Tourism Management (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits66
- Units in this qualification19
Awarded by Institute of Hospitality · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Institute of Hospitality registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Business Ethics for Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the underlying principles of ethics and corporate social responsibility in the context of the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Assess the role and importance of ethical behaviour in decision making.
- Interpret the role and importance of the consumer in determining the ethical and corporate social responsibility of organisations.
- Evaluate current strategic ethical issues and the potential impact they have on hospitality and tourism businesses.
Business Strategy for Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the importance of the strategic planning process and the procedures involved.
- Analyse the effectiveness of resource deployment in achieving business objectives.
- Assess how the external business environment impacts upon hospitality and tourism businesses.
- Compare different strategic business development methods.
Career Management in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the best sources of information and guidance relating to hospitality and tourism careers.
- Define what is meant by Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
- Create a career development plan.
- Recognise the skills and knowledge required for career management.
Consumer Behaviour in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the sociological (cultural, social and personal) factors that can influence consumer behaviour.
- Review the psychological factors that can influence consumer behaviour.
- Analyse the complexity of the consumer decision making process.
- Consider the development of the ‘new’ consumer and their characteristics.
Customer Relationship Management for Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Justify the progression in service delivery from a transaction approach to a relationship approach.
- Consider key aspects of managing the customer experience and the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) process.
- Explore the importance of customer loyalty.
- Appraise Total Quality Management (TQM) and service quality through upstream and downstream activities.
Financial Planning and Control in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Apply techniques to produce budgeted operating plans.
- Apply techniques to produce budgeted statements for profit and cash.
- Apply techniques to implement principles of budgetary control.
- Understand the behavioural aspects of budgeting.
French Language Skills for Hospitality ManagersReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the key management roles within the hospitality industry.
- Recognise and use key phrases for managing staff.
- Recognise and use key phrases for customer service and handling complaints.
- Recognise and use key phrases in health and safety and food safety.
- Explain services and facilities; including conferences and events.
Human Resources Legislation in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise current UK legislation relevant to Human Resources (HR).
- Understand how to update knowledge and awareness of HR legislation on a regular basis.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the ‘duty of care’ towards employees in the workplace.
- Demonstrate an awareness of health and safety issues in the workplace with regard to employees.
- Explain the nature of ‘Terms and Conditions’ of employment.
- Explain the importance of providing relevant information and training to employees.
- Recognise appropriate procedures with relation to equal opportunities.
- Recognise appropriate procedures with relation to grievance procedures.
- Recognise appropriate procedures with relation to disciplinary action.
- Recognise appropriate procedures with relation to redundancy.
Managing Finance and Business Performance in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Understand company financial information.
- Interpret the significance and meaning of the key company statements.
- Analyse business performance from financial statements.
- Employ a range of techniques to calculate and interpret operational performance.
Managing Your Professional Development in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse knowledge and skills essential for maintaining a specific career path and evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses to improve own performance over the short, medium and long term.
- Evaluate personal values, motivation and capacity; and explore how these will impact on professional performance.
- Review independent judgement and professional ethics in relation to own job roles, responsibilities and relationships with colleagues, team members, managers and customers.
- Examine and evaluate tasks and process skills in the context of job requirem
Managing the Business Environment in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Review the purpose and responsibilities of hospitality and tourism organisations.
- Analyse the impact of the micro environment upon the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Evaluate the effect of macro environmental issues upon the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Interpret political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors in relation to the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Appraise business assessment models and concepts in auditing the hospitality and tourism environment.
Managing the Changing Legislation in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the external factors that lead to changes in legislation.
- Assess the consequences of changes to legislation upon an organisation.
- Evaluate the gaps that exist between the existing situation in an organisation and the situation as required by new legislation.
- Prepare changes to organisational structure, policy and procedures to ensure, compliance with new legislation.
- Develop action plans that ensure compliance with new legislation is achieved.
Managing the Hospitality and Tourism ConsumerReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the importance of quality and customer satisfaction in the exchange process, particularly in a service encounter.
- Explore the different types of customer, and the differences between the customer and consumer.
- Investigate the variety and level of customer information available for analysis.
- Evaluate the many ways that a business can influence the customer through internal systems and structures.
Marketing Communications for Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the nature and role of marketing communications within the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Distinguish between the key elements in the communications mix within the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Investigate the nature of the marketing communications strategy within the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Investigate the process and components of a market communication campaign within the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Assess the influence of macro/micro external influences on the communication process within the hospitality and tourism industries.
Marketing Management for Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the role of marketing within the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Review the role of market segmentation in successful hospitality and tourism organisations.
- Review the role of target marketing in successful hospitality and tourism organisations.
- Evaluate aspects of the marketing mix.
- Apply marketing mix concepts to the marketing planning process.
- Review the function of marketing plans.
- Review the components of marketing plans.
- Appraise the success of implemented marketing plans.
Presenting the Business Plan in Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of the business planning process.
- Analyse the content of a business plan.
- Evaluate the ways in which data can be manipulated to produce an effective business plan.
- Apply a range of communication tools for effective presentations.
- Understand how to prepare and evaluate an outline business plan for presentation to internal and external stakeholders.
Project Management for Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the business case to justify project viability.
- Evaluate the business case to justify project viability.
- Recognise the internal environmental factors that will influence a project.
- Recognise the external environmental factors that will influence a project.
- Prepare a well written project plan based on a prescriptive structure.
- Analyse scheduling techniques to assist in successful project completion.
- Analyse measures to assist in successful project completion.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a project.
Risk Management Strategies for Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the reasons why businesses need to apply risk management strategies in a business environment.
- Identify the types of risks that could pose difficulties to a business and its environment; examine the difficulties and problems that may occur.
- Evaluate the risk management tools needed to prevent or minimise damage to a business through risk.
- Discuss and evaluate how businesses can best adopt risk assessment techniques.
- Consider and evaluate how government legislation can influence risk management and risk assessment policy within a
Services Marketing for Hospitality and TourismReal unit · Institute of Hospitality
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the nature of service and service industries, with specific reference to hospitality and tourism.
- Distinguish between the service offering and the tangible product within the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Understand the unique characteristics of services marketing within the hospitality and tourism industries.
- Identify the framework for successful service marketing within the hospitality and tourism industries.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
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Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Institute of Hospitality Level 4 Diploma in Advanced Hospitality and Tourism Management (QCF)
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Institute of Hospitality.
- Business Ethics for Hospitality and Tourism
- Business Strategy for Hospitality and Tourism
- Career Management in Hospitality and Tourism
- Consumer Behaviour in Hospitality and Tourism
- Customer Relationship Management for Hospitality and Tourism
- Financial Planning and Control in Hospitality and Tourism
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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