Overview And Certificates

Redefine what it means to deliver exceptional guest experiences. Designed for professionals who aim to lead in hotels, restaurants, and events, these certificate programs focus on innovative strategies that keep pace with evolving industry demands. From personalized service to cutting-edge operations and design, you’ll gain actionable insights to elevate every interaction and stand out in a competitive market. Created by faculty from the globally renowned industry leaders at Cornell, these Hospitality certificate programs equip you to set new standards for excellence.

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Hotel Real Estate Investments and Asset Management
Courses
  • Financial Analysis of Hotel Investments
  • Control of Hotel Real Estate
  • Developing an Asset Management Strategy
  • Achieving Hotel Asset Management Objectives
  • Valuing Hotel Investments Through Effective Forecasting
  • Valuing Hotel Intellectual Property and Structuring the Capital Stack
Designed For
  • Hospitality professionals with financial or operational responsibility
  • Lenders and investors involved in hospitality real estate projects
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900
Hospitality Management
Courses
  • Understanding Financial Statements
  • Building High-Performing Teams
  • Services Marketing Planning and Management
  • Pricing and Revenue Management Essentials
  • Building Guest Loyalty
  • Introduction to Hotel Operations
  • Leadership Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Marketing Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Hospitality professionals working in every function of their organization
  • Professionals looking to move into a hospitality management position
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Food and Beverage Management
Courses
  • Utilizing Income Statements and Operational Data
  • Optimizing Your Food and Beverage Menu
  • Managing Your Food and Beverage Supply Chain
  • Building Guest Loyalty
  • Leading Your Team to Optimize Results
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Operating a Profitable and Responsible Beverage Program
  • Opening a Restaurant
  • Adding Value with Special Events
Designed For
  • General managers and line-level employees involved in the operation and financial performance of a restaurant or food and beverage service
  • Managed service contractors for stadiums, arenas, hospitals, airlines, franchises, and catering
  • Professionals new to the food and beverage industry
  • Non-restaurant professionals looking to be conversant in operations of food and beverage providers
  • Caterers, restaurateurs, event space managers, property managers, corporate event managers
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Hospitality Management 360
Courses
  • Introduction to Hotel Operations
  • Becoming a Powerful Leader
  • Building High-Performing Teams
  • Understanding Financial Statements
  • Using Ratio Analysis to Evaluate Financial Performance
  • Services Marketing Planning and Management
  • Evaluating Business and Customer Factors Affecting Marketing Decisions for Services
  • Introduction to Hotel Revenue Management
  • Forecasting and Availability Controls in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Utilizing Income Statements and Operational Data
  • Building Guest Loyalty
  • Introduction to Restaurant Revenue Management
  • Managing Meal Duration and Reservations
  • Marketing Hospitality Brands Through Digital Media
  • Leadership Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Marketing Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Pricing Strategy and Distribution Channels in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Overbooking Practices in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Non-Traditional Applications of Hotel Revenue Management
  • Building a Resilient Services Marketing Information System
  • Developing a Service Strategy and Managing the Brand
  • Managing Service Demand through Pricing and Distribution Strategies
  • Developing an Integrated Marketing Communications Strategy for Services
  • Optimizing Your Food and Beverage Menu
  • Managing Your Food and Beverage Supply Chain
  • Optimizing Restaurant Space and Pricing
  • Implementing Brand Strategy Through Digital Media
Designed For
  • Hospitality managers working in hotels and corporate offices
  • Hospitality professionals aspiring to management positions
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
9 months with 3-9 hours of study per week

Cost
$8,400
AI in Hospitality
Courses
  • Leveraging Predictive AI in Hospitality
  • Applying Generative AI in Hospitality
  • Streamlining Hospitality Operations With Automation
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Mid- and senior-level hospitality professionals
  • Marketing and sales directors in hospitality
  • HR directors for hospitality organizations
  • Business analysts
  • Hotel general managers
  • Housekeeping directors
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900
Hotel Revenue Management
Courses
  • Introduction to Hotel Revenue Management
  • Forecasting and Availability Controls in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Pricing Strategy and Distribution Channels in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Overbooking Practices in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Non-Traditional Applications of Hotel Revenue Management
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Revenue managers and directors
  • General managers
  • Front desk managers
  • Night auditors
  • Sales and marketing analysts
  • Hospitality professionals responsible for financial success
  • Aspiring hospitality management professionals looking for a strong foundation of revenue concepts
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 5-7 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Revenue Management 360
Courses
  • Introduction to Hotel Revenue Management
  • Forecasting and Availability Controls in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Pricing Strategy and Distribution Channels in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Overbooking Practices in Hotel Revenue Management
  • Non-Traditional Applications of Hotel Revenue Management
  • Price and Inventory Controls
  • Price Sensitivity and Pricing Decisions
  • Segmentation and Price Optimization
  • Displacement and Negotiated Pricing
  • Search Engines and Online Selling: Stimulating Incremental Demand
  • Understanding Financial Statements
  • Using Ratio Analysis to Evaluate Financial Performance
  • Marketing Hospitality Brands Through Digital Media
  • Implementing Brand Strategy Through Digital Media
  • Marketing Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Mastering the Time Value of Money
  • Making Capital Investment Decisions
  • Risk and Return: How to Identify, Measure, and Incorporate Into Capital Budgeting Decisions
  • Raising Capital: The Process, the Players, and Strategic Considerations
  • Services Marketing Planning and Management
  • Evaluating Business and Customer Factors Affecting Marketing Decisions for Services
  • Building a Resilient Services Marketing Information System
  • Developing a Service Strategy and Managing the Brand
  • Managing Service Demand through Pricing and Distribution Strategies
  • Developing an Integrated Marketing Communications Strategy for Services
  • Introduction to Restaurant Revenue Management
  • Menu Design and Engineering
  • Optimizing Restaurant Space and Pricing
  • Managing Meal Duration and Reservations
  • Building Demand During Slow Periods
Designed For
  • General managers
  • Revenue and finance managers
  • Hospitality professionals responsible for financial success
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
9 months with 3-9 hours of study per week

Cost
$8,400
Hotel Planning and Design
Courses
  • Foundations of Hotel Planning
  • Initial Hotel Planning Decisions
  • Hotel Guestroom Design
  • Hotel Public Space Design
  • Hotel Back-of-House Design
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Architects
  • Interior designers
  • Hotel consultants
  • Architecture students
  • Owners, developers, and construction managers
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 4-6 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900
Restaurant Revenue Management
Courses
  • Introduction to Restaurant Revenue Management
  • Menu Design and Engineering
  • Optimizing Restaurant Space and Pricing
  • Managing Meal Duration and Reservations
  • Building Demand During Slow Periods
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Restaurant owners, managers, and operators
  • Foodservice professionals responsible for their organization's financial performance
  • Hospitality professionals
  • Executive chefs
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Hospitality Leadership
Courses
  • Leading Service-Focused Transformation
  • Creating an Agile Enterprise
  • The Power of Experimentation
  • Becoming a Strategic Leader
  • Making Strategic Change Happen
  • Leadership Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Hospitality managers, directors, and general managers
  • Business professionals newer to the hospitality industry looking quickly to translate their outside expertise
  • Owners, operators, and managers looking to accelerate growth and profitability
  • Aspiring hospitality managers
  • Individual contributors
  • HR professionals
  • Managers and leaders in any industry seeking transformative organizational knowledge
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2.5 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Hospitality Accounting
Courses
  • Examining the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI)
  • Benchmarking Hotel Performance
  • Using Financial Statements for Decision Making
  • Applying Managerial Accounting Tools to Improve Flow Through
  • Preparing the Operating Budgets and Monitoring Performance
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Hotel owners
  • Hotel general managers and directors
  • Hotel managers and department heads
  • Hotel employees using financial information for decision making
  • Accounting professionals seeking to move into the hotel industry
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2.5 months with 5-8 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Wines of the World
Courses
  • Wine Essentials
  • Foundations of California, the Pacific Northwest, and New York Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of California, the Pacific Northwest, and New York
  • Foundations of French Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of France
  • Foundations of Italian Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of Italy
  • Foundations of Spanish and Portuguese Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of Spain and Portugal
  • Foundations of German and Austrian Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of Germany and Austria
  • Foundations of Southern Hemisphere Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of the Southern Hemisphere
Designed For
  • Wine enthusiasts
  • Restaurateurs and hoteliers
  • Wine distributors and retailers
  • Account executives and professionals who entertain clients
  • Aspiring hospitality professionals
  • Anyone looking to increase their knowledge of wine
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
10 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900
Wines of California, the Pacific Northwest, and New York
Courses
  • Wine Essentials
  • Foundations of California, the Pacific Northwest, and New York Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of California, the Pacific Northwest, and New York
Designed For
  • Wine enthusiasts
  • Restaurateurs and hoteliers
  • Wine distributors and retailers
  • Professionals who entertain clients
  • Aspiring hospitality professionals
  • Anyone looking to increase their knowledge of wine
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2.5 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$999
Advanced Hospitality Revenue Management: Pricing and Demand Strategies
Courses
  • Price and Inventory Controls
  • Price Sensitivity and Pricing Decisions
  • Segmentation and Price Optimization
  • Displacement and Negotiated Pricing
  • Search Engines and Online Selling: Stimulating Incremental Demand
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • General managers
  • Revenue managers
  • Marketing managers
  • Hospitality professionals responsible for their organization's financial performance
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
General Managers Program
Courses
  • General Managers Program Capstone
  • Boosting Hotel Value
  • Creating F&B Operations to Meet Changing Consumer Interests
  • Leveraging AI for Hospitality Operations
  • Communication Skills for GMs
  • Hospitality Marketing in Dynamic Contexts
  • Strategic Innovation for Hotel GMs
  • Global Hospitality Trends and Best Practices: Profit From Change
Designed For
  • General managers overseeing full-service hotels
  • Senior hospitality professionals such as managing directors, assistant general managers, executive assistant managers, and operations directors who are on a pathway to promotion to General Manager within 12 months
Format
Online and on campus

Online
Two live virtual courses, completed over 2 months

On Campus
5-day immersion experience with Cornell faculty
Strategic Hospitality Marketing
Courses
  • Services Marketing Planning and Management
  • Evaluating Business and Customer Factors Affecting Marketing Decisions for Services
  • Building a Resilient Services Marketing Information System
  • Developing a Service Strategy and Managing the Brand
  • Managing Service Demand through Pricing and Distribution Strategies
  • Developing an Integrated Marketing Communications Strategy for Services
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Marketing Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Customer-focused sales and marketing professionals
  • Services marketing and operating professionals
  • Product marketing professionals
  • Industry professionals analyzing services marketing data to make strategic decisions
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 5-7 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Hospitality Strategy
Courses
  • Fundamentals of Hospitality Strategy
  • Formulating Hospitality Strategy
  • Implementing Hospitality Strategy
  • Leading Strategic Change Initiatives
  • Becoming a Strategic Leader
  • Leadership Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Senior leadership at hotel properties
  • General managers
  • Executive committee personnel
  • Managers hoping to move into a senior leadership position
  • Hotel owners
  • Corporate-level managers interested in formulating business-unit and corporate strategy
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Leading a Culture of Service Excellence
Courses
  • Fostering a Culture of Service Excellence
  • Developing Service Excellence Competencies
  • Practicing Servant Leadership
  • Delivering an Excellent Customer Experience for Your Organization
  • Developing a Culture of Empowerment
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Managers and leaders responsible for serving external and internal customers
  • Financial institution leaders and team members
  • Hotel and restaurant leaders and team members
  • Healthcare facility leaders and team members
  • Retail leaders and team members
  • Small business leaders
  • Any organization looking to provide a consistent high level of customer service
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Beer Essentials
Courses
  • Beer Ingredients and Production
  • Beer Styles
  • Establishing a Beer Program
  • Beer Sales and Training
Designed For
  • Owners and managers of restaurants, hotels and breweries
  • Bartenders, servers, and other food and beverage professionals
  • Brewers, including home brewers
  • Beer enthusiasts
  • Professionals looking to invest in a brewery
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$1,999
Hotel Management and Owner Relations
Courses
  • Asset Management Process and Plan
  • Asset Management Strategy
  • Asset Management Toolkit
  • Property Management Operations
  • Leadership Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Fundamentals of Hospitality Strategy
  • Formulating Hospitality Strategy
  • Implementing Hospitality Strategy
  • Navigating Power Relationships
  • Introduction to Negotiation
Designed For
  • General managers
  • Assistant general managers
  • Senior operational leaders
  • Hotel managers and leaders
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Hospitality Labor and Employment Law
Courses
  • Discrimination Law in the Hospitality Industry
  • Specific Discrimination Laws in Hospitality
  • Wage and Hour Law in Hospitality
  • Labor Law in Hospitality
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • HR Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • HR professionals working in the hospitality industry
  • HR consultants
  • Hospitality managers and executives
  • Hotel owners and asset managers
  • Small business owners and franchise owners
  • Overseas companies looking to do business with the U.S. market
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Hospitality Digital Marketing
Courses
  • Marketing Hospitality Brands Through Digital Media
  • Implementing Brand Strategy Through Digital Media
  • Communicating the Brand Across Marketing Media
  • Success Metrics for Hospitality Digital Marketing
  • Marketing Symposium  
    LIVE
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Marketers
  • Operations professionals
  • Revenue managers
  • Sales professionals
  • Property ownership groups
  • Hospitality executives
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 7-9 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
HR in Hospitality
Courses
  • Positioning the HR Function for Competitive Success
  • Sustainable Talent Attraction and Selection Strategy
  • Developing an Effective Retention Strategy
  • Discrimination Law in the Hospitality Industry
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • HR Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Hotel owners and asset managers
  • Corporate HR managers with multi-unit oversight in multiple locations
  • Recruiters
  • Hiring managers
  • Operational managers
  • Hospitality professionals looking to move into an HR position
  • HR professionals looking to move into the hospitality industry
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750
Restaurant Distribution Strategy
Courses
  • Assessing Restaurant Distribution in the Digital World
  • Evaluating Restaurant Distribution Strategic Fit
  • Implementing Restaurant Distribution Strategies
  • Building Guest Loyalty
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
Designed For
  • Restaurant operators and managers
  • Restaurant and hotel franchisees and franchisors
  • Managers of hotels with full-service restaurants or grab-and-go offerings
  • Analysts at large foodservice chain organizations
  • Grocery store and CPG managers
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$2,999
Food Executive Program
Courses
  • Food Executive Program
Designed For
  • Food and beverage industry professionals and executives
  • CPG company professionals
  • Retailers and wholesalers
  • Grocery chain managers
  • Managers of drug stores, convenience stores, club stores, dollar stores, and mass merchants
  • Manufacturers
  • Logistics and supply chain professionals
  • Design, print, and packaging agency professionals
  • Consultants
  • Entrepreneurs
Format
5-day immersion experience on Cornell campus July 12-17, 2026

Location
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Cost
$9,999
Hospitality Professional Development Program
Courses
  • HPDP Community Site
  • Leading With Impact
  • AI in Hospitality
Designed For
  • Mid- to upper-level hospitality professionals seeking career growth
  • Hospitality professionals with at least five years of experience
Location
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Cost
$6,999

What's Included
All course materials, networking reception, breakfasts, and lunches
Wines of France
Courses
  • Wine Essentials
  • Foundations of French Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of France
Designed For
  • Wine enthusiasts
  • Restaurateurs and hoteliers
  • Wine distributors and retailers
  • Professionals who entertain clients
  • Aspiring hospitality professionals
  • Anyone looking to increase their knowledge of wine
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2.5 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$999
Wines of Germany and Austria
Courses
  • Wine Essentials
  • Foundations of German and Austrian Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of Germany and Austria
Designed For
  • Wine enthusiasts
  • Restaurateurs and hoteliers
  • Wine distributors and retailers
  • Professionals who entertain clients
  • Aspiring hospitality professionals
  • Anyone looking to increase their knowledge of wine
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2.5 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$999
Wines of Italy
Courses
  • Wine Essentials
  • Foundations of Italian Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of Italy
Designed For
  • Wine enthusiasts
  • Restaurateurs and hoteliers
  • Wine distributors and retailers
  • Professionals who entertain clients
  • Aspiring hospitality professionals
  • Anyone looking to increase their knowledge of wine
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2.5 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$999
Wines of Spain and Portugal
Courses
  • Wine Essentials
  • Foundations of Spanish and Portuguese Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of Spain and Portugal
Designed For
  • Wine enthusiasts
  • Restaurateurs and hoteliers
  • Wine distributors and retailers
  • Professionals who entertain clients
  • Aspiring hospitality professionals
  • Anyone looking to increase their knowledge of wine
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2.5 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$999
Wines of the Southern Hemisphere
Courses
  • Wine Essentials
  • Foundations of Southern Hemisphere Wines
  • Experiencing Wines of the Southern Hemisphere
Designed For
  • Wine enthusiasts
  • Restaurateurs and hoteliers
  • Wine distributors and retailers
  • Professionals who entertain clients
  • Aspiring hospitality professionals
  • Anyone looking to increase their knowledge of wine
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2.5 months with 3-5 hours of study per week

Cost
$999
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