Luxury Management (edX)

Concepts and applications will be introduced through textbooks, selected journal articles and field visits.

This course is part of the International Hospitality Management MicroMasters Program.

What you'll learn:

- Evaluate and discuss the essence of luxury brand management. Address the brand potential that exists in luxury activities, and how luxury-goods businesses should be conducted on a daily basis

- Analyze and critic the specificities of luxury goods marketing, the long term trends in the luxury industry and the changing shape and definition of the luxury sector

- Analyze and evaluate luxury brand management research journals

- Identify luxury brand and experience problems within the hotel and tourism context, and apply research skills and techniques to solve these problems

- Analyze and appraise related numerical and graphical data regarding managing luxury brand and experience, and develop solutions for industry practitioners

Syllabus

Week 1: Specificities of the Luxury Industry

Evaluate and discuss the essence of luxury brand management

Week 2: Luxury Brand Power and Lifecycle

Address the brand potential that exists in luxury activities, and how luxury-goods businesses should be conducted on a daily basis

Week 3: The Luxury Client

Analyze and critic the specificities of luxury goods marketing, the long term trends in the luxury industry and the changing shape and definition of the luxury sector

Week 4: Luxury Brand Identity

Analyze and evaluate luxury brand management research journals to identify research problems, review the literature, apply methodologies, and appraise results; and develop research proposal, to conduct an appropriate survey, to evaluate the findings, and to compose research reports

Week 5: Managing Luxury Brand Creation and Communication

Identify luxury brand and experience problems within the hotel and tourism context, and apply research skills and techniques to solve these problems

Week 6: International Distribution and Retailing

Analyze and appraise related numerical and graphical data regarding managing luxury brand and experience, and develop solutions for industry practitioners