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Hotel Development and Real Estate Investments
Learn to construct and implement a practical development plan, aligned to your organization.
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In this online course, you will obtain the fundamental knowledge, skills, and practice to be able to make successful business decisions related to hotel development and investments. This course focuses on three areas – asset management, investments, and valuation, for which knowledge and research in the field is enhanced with real world business practice and cases. By the end of this course, you will be able to evaluate potential business deals, negotiate key terms and clauses in an investments relationship, and recommend strategies to maximize short and long-term financial goals.
120+ Lecture Videos
30+ Executive Interviews
15+ Interactive Exercises
15+ Reading & Case Studies
Valuation of Hotel Investments
Week 1
Hotels and real estate
Markets and their efficiency
Week 2
Financial analysis
Capital types & capital structure
Loans
Week 3
Valuation analysis
Direct capitalization-conclusion
Week 4
Investment valuation
Investment analysis
Final assessment
The final assessment evaluates the content learned in the previous four weeks. The assessment can range from multiple choice quizzes (MCQ) to more open response evaluations, like a case study.
Feasibility Analysis, Development and Negotiations
Week 6
Strategic hotel investments
Feasibility analysis
Week 7
Project overview
Site analysis
Financial feasibility
Week 8
Stakeholders
Debt
Week 9
Hotel operators
Operational structures
HMA negotiations
Final assessment
The final assessment evaluates the content learned in the previous four weeks. The assessment can range from multiple choice quizzes (MCQ) to more open response evaluations, like a case study.
Hotel Asset Management
Week 11
What is hotel asset management and why is it necessary?
Week 12
Data ownership control & liability
Analysis, tools and building strategies
Week 13
Budget - owner’s perspectives
Asset management plans
Week 14
Various stages of asset management
Final assessment
The final assessment evaluates the content learned in the previous four weeks. The assessment can range from multiple choice quizzes (MCQ) to more open response evaluations, like a case study.
3x Certificate of Completion
A Program Advisor will get back to you with feedback or suggestions.
This course is designed for hospitality professionals, hotel owners, entrepreneurs starting a hospitality business and any professional with business experience wishing to update their skills and learn how to drive hotel revenues.
There are no admission requirements to enroll to this course.
To enroll, choose the desired intake and fill in your personal details. You will receive an email with the payment link. You are accepted in the course only upon receipt of payment.
We must receive payment at least five days before the start of the course. Late enrollments can be accepted on a case-by-case basis.
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Cost
CHF 5,940
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Payment methods
EHL uses the payment platform Flywire, which provides various payment methods, has no hidden bank fees, and offers favorable exchange rates. The link to the payment platform will be provide after the enrollment form.
Course structure
The 15-week course is a bundle of three individual 5-week courses. Each individual course is structured as following:
- four weeks of course content
- one week for the final assessment
The advantage of signing up to a the bundle of three courses is the 10% discount, already applied (CHF 5,940 instead of CHF 6,600)
Course content
The course is composed of recorded videos, interactive exercises, case studies and executive interviews.
The content is based on the modules delivered in EHL’s MBA in Hospitality program.
Final assessment
At the end of each 5-week course, participants are required to take a final assessment. Upon successfully passing the assessment, participants get a certificate of completion.
Depending on the course, the assessment may range from multiple choice quizzes (MCQ), where only one answer is correct, to more open response evaluations, like a case study.
To successfully pass the assessment, participants must get a minimum of 60% of the total points available. You can either PASS or FAIL a certificate, no numerical grades will be officially reflected in the certificate.
Retakes
Retakes are not available at the end of a program if you fail the final assessment. If you wish to retake the final assessment, you need to re-enroll for the next available session.
Connecting to the platform
A couple of days before the start of the course, participants will receive their credentials by email and will be required to first change their password before being able to join our learning platform Moodle.
Three certificates of completion
A certificate of completion, delivered by EHL, can be obtained at the end of each 5-week course, providing each final assessment is successfully passed.
Each certificate of completion is delivered electronically (secured pdf) with a unique ID associated to the participant.
If a final assessment is failed, no certificate or document related to that course is delivered. Each course is independent from one another; failing a final assessment on one course has no implication on the other courses.
AEHL member discount
AEHL members are entitled to the alumni discount. To benefit from the discount, participants must enter their AEHL number in the discount field in the enrollment form.
Please note this course already has a 10% discount applied. For full details about, please check the EHL Alumni Connect platform.
Upgrade to an MBA in Hospitality
The course content leverages the content of EHL's MBA in Hospitality program. Participants who have enrolled and paid for a 15-week online course, and who wish to join the MBA program, will get a discount on the MBA tuition and fees. In order to join the MBA program, participants must go through an application process.