First intake, part-time runs 1 October 2026 to 30 April 2027. Dates for the next intake are confirming.
Request the course sheetHospitality · Tourism · Entrepreneurship - Singapore
You might work for yourself. You might make a company better. You might build your own. All three come down to the same thing: how a business really runs, and what makes it pay.
The Advanced Diploma in Hospitality, Tourism and Entrepreneurship Management. Seven months, part-time, in Singapore, with an assessed overseas immersion in the middle of it. Straight out of study, or straight off the floor.
For anyone with an idea
Somebody is going to build it.
It may as well be you.
Every business worth admiring started as an idea and a long list of questions. The answers are learnable, and people learn them every day. Seven months from now they could be yours.
Three people, one programme
Fresh out of your diploma
You have studied this trade. You have not had to run any of it yet, and no employer has asked you to. That is the normal place to start here.
Where you landWorking inside a company
You know the floor better than most people in the building. The next step is written in a language nobody taught you.
Where you landRunning your own thing
A supper club, a tour, a pop-up. It works on weekends and strains the moment it grows.
Where you landThe programme
Four things that do not come with a classroom qualification in the same subject.
Your campus is a working hotel on Newton Road, not a business park. The trade is audible through the door.
Cairnhill leases its teaching premises at Hotel Royal and delivers the programme itself. Access is to the campus rather than to the hotel's operations.
It is assessed, it is anchored to two modules, and it sits inside months 2 to 4 rather than on top of them. You come back with a graded report.
Destination, dates and the travel and accommodation arrangement are confirming, and we will not name a destination before the agreement is executed. If the scheduled dates are difficult for you, raise it with our academic team early: options include a later scheduled run or an equivalent supervised alternative against the same learning outcomes, subject to Academic and Examination Board approval. Course completion is not affected.
You leave holding a plan, not a slide deck: a start-up plan, a service concept, a marketing plan and the numbers underneath them.
The capstone is your own primary research on one problem, defended in front of someone whose job is to find the weak point. Not a hypothetical case study handed to the whole cohort.
Singapore's visitors, staff and suppliers all come from somewhere. We start here because the city is unforgiving, then follow the trade outward.
Destination management, cultural tourism and service innovation are taught against regional conditions: seasonality, cost bases, informal supply chains and visitors who are not all coming from the same three markets.
The shape of it
Month 1 · Live online
How a place competes for a visitor, and how an idea becomes something you could actually run.
By the end of month 1: you can describe your idea as a model, not a mood.
Months 2 to 4 · On campus and on the road
On campus at Newton Road, and the assessed overseas immersion. Real rooms, real operators, real service under real pressure. This is the part of the calendar that does not move.
By the end of month 4: you have tested a service concept somewhere it could fail.
Months 5 to 7 · Live online, applied
Channels, numbers and the capstone. Everything now points at one problem, and the problem is yours.
By the end of month 7: you are holding a plan, and you have defended it.
Five questions, no email required
Nothing here is stored or sent.
Why any of this matters
Neither did we.
The trade is a room, a meal, a place, somebody who made a stranger feel expected. It needs more people than it has. The ones who last learn to run it as well as they love it.
The first tray out
Service begins before anybody is watching.
The month nobody posts
Shoulder season is where a business is actually tested.
A room that is working
Nobody in it can tell you why. That is the point.
The night it lands on you
The late desk, and a decision nobody else is there to make.
Twelve strangers, one story
A guide holds a group with nothing but sequence and timing.
Straight from the market
Cost, seasonality, and a supplier who did not call back.
Take the course sheet, come and see the room, or put your questions to us. The first intake begins 1 October 2026. The next intake is 1 April 2027.
