The School of Tourism, Hospitality and Wellbeing offers a range of programmes relating to tourism, travel, cookery, hospitality, fitness, hair and beauty.  All of the programmes in the School emphasise applied learning focusing on delivering service to customers, clients or visitors.

In addition, NMIT and Nelson Wine Art bring you the Night with the Winemaker Seminar Series, running in August, Spetember and October 2010. Click here for more information. 

Aspiring adventure guides can choose the Diploma in Adventure Tourism, delivered by experienced tutors with a love of the outdoors. Adventure Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the industry and who better to learn it from than people who have been successful guides, operations managers and company owners.

The Diploma in Applied Fitness is a two year programme that is designed to give you a grounding in science, understanding the human body and how it responds to exercise as well as applying this in both individual and group settings.  Skills are applied in the NMIT gym as well as in a range of community settings.

The Diploma in Tourism Management provides you with skills and knowledge to work at a supervisory or management level in all sectors of the industry - own your own business or manage somebody else’s in an environmentally sustainable way.  The industry needs trained supervisors in a range of different sectors.  This programme is also available as an online option.  Courses can be studied via NMIT online.  This provides excellent flexibility for students and is a great option for people working in industry to upskill on the job.

The Certificate in Tourism and Travel is an exit qualification awarded at the end of the first year of the Diploma in Tourism Management. Students can exit if they wish after one year of study. Students complete 5 core courses and then have the option to specialise in one of four areas of study, completing three additional courses:

• Tourism:  You will gain front line skills required to operate in a tourism business. You prepare yourself to work in a variety of different roles within the wider tourism industry.
• Manaaki Tāpoi (Cultural Tourism Māori) is aimed at providing training in Māori culture in order for graduates of this specialty to take up roles in tourism enterprises to provide a Māori cultural dimension. Visitors to New Zealand are particularly interested in Māori culture and the tourism industry needs well trained Māori guides to facilitate the visitor experience.
• Travel: You will be able to work in the world of retail or wholesale travel. You can follow a career working in information centres, manage travel desks across the sectors of accommodation, transport and ancillary services; be employable in central reservations such as hotel chains, car and campervan rentals, inbound and outbound tour operators, cruise operators, or manage an office of a tourism business.