BA (Hons) Tourism Management

• A Level: Must include passes at A2 in at least one subject. 
• BTEC: Extended Diploma (QCF) or Diploma (QCF).
• International Baccalaureate: Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level.
• Other equivalent qualifications accepted by the university.

Note: We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths (See below for accepted equivalences)

English Language Requirements:

• Overall IELTS 5.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Writing and Speaking; minimum 5.5 in Reading and Listening (or recognised equivalent).

This course has a common first year with our Hospitality Management degree to provide a thorough grounding in business concepts, service marketing and management.

You’ll then go on to learn about accounting and finance, destination marketing, innovation and managing businesses in different tourism sub-sectors.

In your final year you’ll get to grips with sustainable tourism, cultural tourism and the ‘tourist landscape’, and you’ll have a choice of optional modules, including niche marketing.

Throughout the course you’ll analyse and discuss current and emerging issues in tourism, gaining an in-depth understanding of the many aspects of this industry.

For instance, you’ll learn how individual tourism businesses operate, and how destinations, countries and regions market and promote themselves.

By the end of the course you’ll be in a great position to gain employment in the tourism industry at home or abroad.

Year 1

• International Tourism and Hospitality: Concepts and Approaches 
• The Business Environment for the Leisure and Cultural Industries 
• Service Sector Marketing: Principles & Practice 
• People, Organisations and Management 

Year 2

• Accounting and Finance for the Cultural industries
• Leading and Managing People in the Leisure and Creative Industries
• Destination Marketing 
• Managing International Tourism 
• Tourism Innovation and Enterprise 

Optional:

• The Law for Live Events
• Hospitality Organisation and Management 
• Volunteering 

Optional Placement:
This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organisation, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. 

The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

Year 3

• The Business Professional 
• Developing and Planning Sustainable Tourism 
• Heritage, Museums and Cultural Tourism 
• Culture, Mobility and the Tourist Landscape 
• Sports & Event Tourism

Optional:

• Niche Marketing for Events and Leisure 
• Food and Beverage Management 
• Global Scholars Project