Expand+What is this course about?
This course focuses the strategic content of tourism, marketing, finance and management. It is delivered using a number of contemporary teaching strategies, including lectures, workshops and field trips. Dialogue betw...

Hide-What is this course about?
This course focuses the strategic content of tourism, marketing, finance and management. It is delivered using a number of contemporary teaching strategies, including lectures, workshops and field trips. Dialogue between lecturers and learners and between learners themselves is central to each module.

During this course you will learn to:
• Apply a critical, systematic and mature approach to problem solving within the tourism and hospitality industry.

• Discriminate between alternative management strategies and to successfully manage change.

• Develop your communication and social skills resulting in a self-confident, responsible and enterprising graduate.

Students will achieve the above by being able to:
• Identify and develop strategic solutions to a real-life business problem.

• Manage a simulated business in a competitive market place.

• Visit and evaluate a successful indigenous tourism business and apply strategic level theories for future planning to the business.

• Engage with tourism stakeholders at the destination.

• Become an informed and skilled researcher.

Why take this course?
This course focuses on developing honours degree graduates with the necessary problem-solving, criticalthinking and communication skills to become leaders in industry. Successful completion of this course of study will open up a range of exciting career options nationally and internationally.

All students in the Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, including new first years, are eligible to take part in annual international field trips. In the last few years, more than 150 of our students have worked or studied abroad, in places like Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai, Parma, Poznan, Paris, San Sebastian, Barcelona, Cannes, the Balearics, Ontario and Lisbon.

Expand+What can I do after the course?
Graduates of this course have progressed to further study at level 9 in business, tourism, hospitality, marketing, and strategic management here and in other universities. Others have found employment in careers ...

Hide-What can I do after the course?
Graduates of this course have progressed to further study at level 9 in business, tourism, hospitality, marketing, and strategic management here and in other universities. Others have found employment in careers such as hotel and leisure management, front office and revenue managers, hotel sales and marketing, conferences and events management, and tourism destination development officers. Many have used their qualification to work and travel the world at the same time. Graduates have also completed postgraduate studies in education and qualified as secondary school teachers in career guidance, business studies and accounting. Students now also have the opportunity to progress to the MA/PgDip in Tourism Management and Destination Leadership, which can be undertaken over one or two years.