Pacific International Hotel Management School

At the Pacific International Hotel Management School (PIHMS) in New Plymouth, students benefit from world-class hospitality training. PIHMS aims to meet the demand for specialised hospitality management education and training by producing graduates with professional and personal skills at the highest level. The school provides a unique learning environment that gives students the right skills, knowledge and experience to take up a career in the hospitality industry anywhere in the world.

As well as academic study, students gain real experience from hands-on learning. Students run PIHMS as a fully functioning hotel; they learn to operate the various departments of a hotel and to manage the different business aspects of the hotel industry. Paid industry placements in hotels in New Zealand and overseas is an integral element of the training. This well balanced educational programme combines practical skills, theoretical knowledge, and personal development to New Zealand and international industry standards. PIHMS is a member of the Leading Hotel Schools of the World network.

PIHMS is a member of the Leading Hotel Schools of the World network.


 

Postal:

 Pacific International Hotel Management School
Private Bag 2062
New Plymouth

Phone:

 0800 100 331 (NZ tollfree)
64 6 755 0030

Fax:

 64 6 755 2919

Website:

 www.pihms.ac.nz

NZQA Info:

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Email:

 marketing@pihms.ac.nz

Campus:

 Cnr Devon & Henwood Roads,
Bell Block, New Plymouth

Programmes:
  • Diploma of Hotel Management (Level 6)
  • Bachelor of Applied Hospitality & Tourism Management (Level 7)
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Hotel Management (Level 8)
  • The PIHMS Certificate in English Language
Entrepreneurial PIHMS Graduates Have Big Plans for 2010
January 2010

Two of 2009’s Pacific International Hotel Management School’s graduating degree students have big plans for after graduation, but they don‘t involve finding employment. 

Josh Waitere-Ang and Alex Jenkinson and a third yet to be named PIHMS graduate are setting up their own company aimed at providing destination management services to those working in the tourism and hospitality industry. It is intended that the business will have four strands to it—market research, on-line reservations, a loyalty card for tourism and hospitality workers and information distribution. 

Josh says he came up with the original idea while studying for exams in Semester 5 and then spent 6 months carrying out some initial market research in Queenstown. He says he decided to come back to PIHMS for the 6-month degree extension in part to develop his business ideas further. Josh and Alex now have a name for their company – Tourism & Hospitality Cards – a logo and numerous business, financial, human resources and marketing plans. 

Josh and the two other company directors will be basing themselves in Palmerston North for the next 9 months to further develop their company’s strategies and services. They plan to have some aspects of their business operational in Queenstown by January 2011. In addition, they have already been contracted to carry out some market research on destinations for the Ministry of Tourism and Tourism New Zealand.


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