NZIM / ATTTO Diploma in Tourism Management

This course has been developed by NZIM in partnership with the Aviation, Tourism and Travel Training Organisation (ATTTO) to provide management skills for people developing or operating businesses in tourism. The course provides opportunity for these people to apply management skills in their work environment.

Course description

NZ Diploma in Business papers

Students must complete three core plus three optional papers, taken from the basket of papers available for the New Zealand Diploma in Business approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

Practicum or research project

Students must also complete a practicum or research project. The practicum involves a period of supervised observation and analysis of a tourism workplace. The research project may be a workplace action research project, or another similar supervised applied research activity.

Technical training

In addition, students must complete a technical training skills module, which requires a minimum of 20 credits from the New Zealand Qualifications Framework at Level 3 or above from the tourism subfield (or approved equivalents from the hospitality subfield) or equivalent qualifications.

Entry to the course

The minimum entry requirement is the NZIM Certificate in Management, or Sixth Form Certificate with grades 20 or less in best four subjects, or the completion of National Certificate in Tourism or Hospitality at Level 3 or above, or an equivalent course of study as may be defined by the teaching institution. These entry requirements may provide the relevant credits to obtain the above technical training skills, and credit may be transferred.

Core papers

141 Marketing Principles
180 Principles of Tourism
285 Tourism Industry Management

Optional Papers (select three)

100 Accounting Principles
110 Introduction to Commercial Law
115 Small Business Management
120 The Economic Environment
130 Organization and Management
140 Business Communication
150 Computer Concepts
202 Management Accounting
203 Business Finance
204 Management Accounting for Managers
233 Human Resource Management
235 Employment Relations
242 Marketing Research
244 Buyer Behaviour and Communication Strategies
248 Marketing Planning and Control
280 Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

(NB Only one paper of 202, 204 and 280 can be taken)

Practicum

860 Tourism practicum

NB Students must ensure that they have 80 credits at Level 5

Technical training

861 - 20 credits from Tourism subfield, or Hospitality subfield, or equivalent in qualifications. A schedule of appropriate unit standards and alternative technical qualifications will be drawn up.

Recognition of current competence

Students may gain credit for papers of the program  through recognition of current competence. A maximum of two papers may be obtained by these means.

Students applying for recognition of current competence must meet the assessment standards of the paper, through portfolio, interview, and other attestation. Students will pay a fee for this service.

Entry Standard

Any degree / Graduate with IELTS 5.5 band or over

(OR) must pass a Placement Test (internal exam conducted by NZIOS)

Start Time
Jannary,February(March), May(June), August and November every year.

Tuition Fee
$14,800 NZD for one year (2 or 3 semesters)

Credit from other qualifications

Students who have completed the NZIM Certificate in Management with a minimum of a B pass may obtain 130 Organization and Management and one other unspecified paper credit towards the Diploma.

Students who have completed the NZIM Diploma in Management need to complete the Technical Training module and the Practicum and two further papers for the Diploma in Tourism Management, provided that they complete the compulsory papers towards the Diploma.

Credit into other qualifications

Students who have completed the NZIM Diploma in Tourism Management may obtain the NZIM Diploma in Management by completing a further four papers, provided they fulfill the compulsory paper requirements for the Diploma in Management.

Students who have completed the NZIM Diploma in Tourism Management may obtain the NZ Diploma in Business by completing a further six papers, provided they complete the compulsory requirements for that qualification.

By arrangement the NZIM Diploma in Tourism Management may provide credit or determine entrance into other New Zealand and overseas qualifications.