GSM offers various programs in English from International Business Administration Program(i-BA), International Project Management Program(i-PM), and Kyoto-Cornell International Collaborative Degree Opportunity which is focusing on creating leaders in hospitality industry. Students can also choose to take some classes in Japanese if they are at some certain levels of fluency in Japanese language.
Moreover, the location of GSM is centrally located in such a magical city like Kyoto. For someone who plan to develop a Ryokan hotel and Hot Spring business, Kyoto offers me a great opportunity to do various site visits, get an inspiration from the best properties in the world, and exchange ideas with local entrepreneurs in hospitality industry.
Kyoto is also only three hours traveling by train to the capital city of Japan ‘Tokyo’. It helps me to easily network with top industry leaders who may reside in the capital city over the weekend, attend more interesting business seminars, and also increase the potential possibilities for summer internship and job opportunities.

My ultimate future goal is to go back to my home country ‘Thailand’ after graduation and create a hospitality group that will manage various hotel brands, restaurants, and service products within the scope of hospitality industry.
The short-term goal is to effectively manage my family business hotels in Thailand and create a sustainable impact for the community in the surrounding area. Travelers mainly travel to Thailand only to visit big cities like Bangkok, Phuket, and Chiangmai. However, I believe that Thailand has so much more potential in tourism more than just those three provinces but there is a real necessity to wisely manage regional tourism and create an attraction by using local intellect, ingredient, and knowledge to create a unique identity to promote local tourism.
A success story of Japan tourism to promote its local identities in different regions and attract millions of travelers to visit the country has become such a great inspiration for me as an entrepreneur and I would want to make this success story happens in my home country in the near future.

Strategic management class by professor Asli Colpan has helped me tremendously to understand a bigger scale of business in a global perspective. All the case studies that were used in class are from a wide range of industries and also from different parts of the world. Doing case discussion and group project with classmates who came from various backgrounds also prepare me for the future opportunities working in international companies.

During my semester at GSM, the classes are still online because of the Covid restriction. For that reason, I had more time to do various tasks in one day. I woke up doing some exercises at the gym, then started preparing for the classes by reading through the case studies and the content that will be discussed and covered in the class. After class, I tried to finish all the assignments within that day or if I had a group project, we would make the clear timeline for all the upcoming meetings and tried to finalize it as soon as possible.