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Hospitality and Tourism Leadership: People, Retention and Service Excellence

A 5-day intensive for hospitality and tourism leaders: retention in the sector with the UK's highest skills-gap rate, service excellence as a managed system, and the digital and green skills the workforce now needs. UK and Gulf editions.

Starts
To be confirmed
Duration
5-day intensive course
Format
Programme · In person · London
Fee
On enquiry

Highlights

  • You leave with: A retention and service system for your property or destination: standards that hold across shifts, supervisors who develop people, numbers you review weekly
  • For: Hotel General Managers and Department Heads; Regional and Group Operations Leaders; Tourism-Board and Destination Managers; Hospitality Group Operators (UK and Gulf Editions)

What you’ll learn

  • Diagnose your people problem with the sector's real numbers — skills gaps, vacancy pressure, avoidable turnover — and cost it honestly
  • Build a retention system: onboarding that holds, rotas and progression people can plan a life around, recognition that is earned
  • Run service excellence as a system: standards, service recovery and consistency across properties and shifts
  • Develop supervisors — the sector's decisive layer — into leaders who keep their teams
  • Lead digital and green operations: guest-facing technology, AI-assisted service and sustainability practice as core job skills
  • For Gulf cohorts: deliver to international hospitality standards while building the local talent pipeline your market now requires

Who this is for

Not for you if you are looking for online, self-paced study — this programme is delivered in person · london, and online delivery is a future phase.

The question we work on: When you cannot hire your way out of the shortage, what kind of leadership keeps the people you have?

Curriculum

5 days · day-by-day outline · all sessions live

  1. Morning: The sector evidence — hotels and restaurants carry the UK's highest skills-gap rate, with 6.2% of staff judged not fully proficient (Employer Skills Survey 2024), alongside vacancy pressure that hiring alone cannot fix.
  2. Afternoon: Retention economics without fantasy: what actually makes hospitality people stay; the manager's levers — rotas, progression, recognition, voice; your property's people audit.

Who teaches this programme

Taught by a senior hospitality operator — a general manager or regional director who has run multi-property people operations, not advised them from outside. Your instructor has owned the problems this programme solves: retention in a high-turnover workforce, service standards across properties, and developing supervisors into leaders. Gulf-edition cohorts are taught by an operator with experience of international-standards service delivery in the region.

How our instructors are selected

London Royal Academy does not employ a standing faculty, and we think that is a strength. Every programme is taught by a senior practitioner who is doing the work now — running the function, leading the programme, or advising the board the course is about. When you commission a programme, we match an instructor from our practitioner bench to your sector and your brief, and you receive their name and track record as part of contracting — before delivery, never as a surprise. Each programme page states the instructor profile we require for that course; no instructor is assigned to a client until they have been checked against it.

Questions

What does it cost? Fees

No fee is published for this programme yet, so the honest answer is: fee on enquiry. We will confirm the fee in writing before anything is booked — no price is invented on this page.

Can my team take this programme? Teams

Yes — team enquiries use the same form with your organisation and group size, and this programme stays attached. How team training works.

Is any of this online? Delivery

Not today. This programme is delivered in person · london; online learning is a future phase and this page will say so plainly when it exists.

Problems this solves

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Start yourself, today

Diagnostics, compliance kits and starter kits, priced per organisation — every one with the 14-day fit-or-refund guarantee. Nothing here replaces taught training; it prepares the ground for it.

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Route 3 · Schedule a meeting

Talk it through first

Thirty minutes with Hajre Hyseni, the founder. Bring the problem as it stands; leave with a scoped read, the honest options — training, a product, or neither — and a written next step.

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