Introduction
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
541 Fundamentals of Marketing
580 Principles of Tourism
685 Tourism Industry Management
Optional Papers (select three)
400 Accounting Principles
435 Fundamentals of Small Business
510 Introduction to Commercial Law
520 The Economic Environment
530 Organisation and Management
550 Business Computing
560 Business Communication
602 Management Accounting
603 Business Finance
633 Human Resource Management
635 Employment Relations
642 Marketing Research
644 Buyer Behavior and Communication Strategies
648 Marketing Planning and Control
Practicum
689 Tourism practicum
NB Students must ensure that they have 80 credits at Level 5
Technical training
481 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 programme 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.
Credit from other qualifications
Students who have completed the NZIM Certificate in Management may obtain 20 unspecified credits at level 4 (version 2 of the NZDipBus), OR with a minimum of a B pass may obtain 130 Organisation and Management and one other unspecified paper credit towards the Diploma (using version 1 NZDipBus).
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 fulfil 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.
