Batch 01, part-time runs 1 August 2026 to 28 February 2027. Dates for the next intake are confirming.
The Advanced Diploma
Hospitality, Tourism and Entrepreneurship Management: the business side of the trade you love.
Seven months, part-time, at Newton Road in Singapore. S$10,500 all in.
Who it's for
Fresh out of your diploma
Just the intent to run something. The academic entry routes ask for a diploma, and nothing else.
Where you landWorking inside a company
Time to run the numbers. Pricing, marketing and financial management, for the next role up.
Where you landRunning your own thing
Make it work at scale. You'll cost it, price it and plan how it grows.
Where you landThe programme
Study at Hotel Royal on Newton Road, surrounded by the industry you're joining.
Cairnhill leases teaching premises at the property. It does not operate the hotel, and the hotel does not deliver the programme; access is to the campus only.
Travel with your cohort in months 2 to 4, and come back with an assessed report.
Destination, dates and the travel and accommodation arrangement are confirming, and will be published once the agreement is executed. If you cannot travel on a scheduled run you can defer to the next one, or, where the Academic and Examination Board approves it, complete an equivalent supervised local alternative against the same learning outcomes. Course completion is not affected either way.
A start-up plan, a service concept, a marketing plan. And the numbers behind them.
The capstone is your own primary research on one problem, presented and defended for formal assessment.
Learn on Singapore's market, then widen out to the region it depends on.
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 seven months
Month 1 · Live online
You start online: how a destination competes for visitors, and how an idea becomes a business you could run.
By the end of month 1: you can explain your idea as a working business model.
Months 2 to 4 · On campus and on the road
Classes move to Newton Road, and you travel on the assessed overseas immersion. These three months follow a fixed calendar.
By the end of month 4: you have tested a service concept in a live setting.
Months 5 to 7 · Live online, applied
Back online for marketing channels, financial management and the capstone, all applied to your own plan.
By the end of month 7: you've presented and defended your completed plan.
The fit check
Five questions. Two minutes.
Your answers aren't stored or sent.
The industry
Hospitality is growing faster than it can staff itself, and the shortage is sharpest in people who can run the commercial side.
The working table
A team working through a plan on campus.
Shoulder season
A terrace in the low season, when costs still run.
Mid-service
At the edge of a full evening service.
The late shift
A front desk after midnight, one person on duty.
At the market
Choosing produce with a supplier before opening.
Sourcing
Morning buying decides the day's cost base.
Modules, dates, entry requirements and the full fee schedule, in one document.
