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
PIHMS Welcomes Asian Hoteliers and Students
January 2011

Late in 2010 the Pacific International Hotel Management School  hosted two groups from Asia. The first was a group of hoteliers from Vietnam and the second a group of tertiary students from Taiwan. 

Nineteen Vietnamese hoteliers from 4 and 5 star hotels in Hanoi visited PIHMS to undertake professional development on how to operate within a Westernised organisastion in their own country. As more international hotel chains open properties in Vietnam, local staff are being required to adapt to Western style management systems. 

The hoteliers visiting PIHMS were mainly deputy general managers and division heads in hotels such as Intercontinental, Sofitel and Mercure. Their five-day programme of study at PIHMS included seminars on event management, finance management in the hotel environment, business communication, human resource management, and improved management skills in the hotel environment. 

The programme at PIHMS was organised by the Hanoi Travel and Tourism Corporation, which is a government body. PIHMS has now signed an MOU to develop this relationship over next five years so the school expects to host more groups like this along with others made up of middle level management and also front line staff. 

PIHMS attracts a number of Vietnamese students each year to its Diploma in Hotel Management and several students have completed six-month industry placements in hotels in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. 

Meanwhile, the group visiting the school from Taiwan was made up of 15 food and beverage and travel and tourism students and a teacher from the Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan in Taipei. The students undertook an intensive one-week course in English language and barista skills. They also had the opportunity to go sightseeing in Taranaki, Waitomo Caves and Auckland. 

PIHMS hopes that some of these students may choose to return to the school in the future to undertake the diploma, degree or postgraduate programmes.


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