About International Hospitality Management
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About Department
IHM was set up to prepare students for successful business and hospitality-related careers with entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and competencies to meet the requirements of national development.
Department Structure
Chef. Luis Chavarria
Head of the IHM
Mr. Marwan Zaid
Faculty Member
Dr. Mohammed Shaaban
Faculty Member
Chef. Anayatul Rahman
Faculty Member
Mr. Nouralislam ghanem
Faculty Member
Dr. Elhussein Ibrahim
Faculty Member
Mr. Nidhal Naser
Faculty Member
Ms. Javeria Malik
Faculty Member
Dean Message
UPM aspires to achieve the excellence in research and scientific outcomes through innovation and commercialization to address the economic and industrial sectors targeting the societal issues and community challenges.
Mission
To develop and promote Saudi hospitality by preparing innovative professionals equipped with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to lead the industry and by providing meaningful research to our community and beyond.
Goals
- Demonstrate effective operational and management techniques for sustainable practices in international hospitality operations (F&B, Housekeeping, Front Office).
- Create hands on learning with an international state-of-the-art educational setting by combining two industry internships.
- Produce research on areas emphasizing current trends, challenges, and issues of hospitality and tourism businesses with proper adoption of ethical values, socio-cultural, and professional considerations.
- Develop effective communications skills required for social and business interaction for different audiences.
- Foster the culture of development, lifelong learning, autonomy, creativity, and innovativeness.
- Analyze financial, marketing, environmental, social, and operational issues through effective leadership and teamwork in a local and international environmental setting.
- Obtain both Saudi national accreditation (NCAAA) and international accreditation from one of the following accreditation programs (UNWTO-TedQual, NEASA, AACSB, ACPHA) for the international hospitality management program.