Honours Degree
Tourism is the world’s fastest growing industry, offering exciting employment opportunities and careers both nationally and internationally.
While cultural and sporting events may make the headlines, the tourism industry goes on delivering memorable experiences and long lasting benefits. To stay competitive, the tourism industry will need graduates with the management skills, ideas and drive to deliver a high-quality product at home and abroad.
Our degree in tourism management will provide you with the cutting-edge skills and knowledge that will enable you to be in the front line for those employment opportunities.
You will learn business practices such as marketing, human resource management, finance, business development and consumer behaviour, but firmly rooted in tourism-related contexts, and based on sound ethical foundations. You will be encouraged to improve your prospects through a range of extra experiences such as taking an award in customer care or a foreign language, optional field trips, and through the year-long work experience placement in the UK or abroad.
You can choose to study tourism as a single honours degree, or a joint honours degree by combining it with another subject.
Some of our modules
- Introduction to the Attractions Business
- Introduction to International Destination Management
- Introduction to Adventure and Sports Tourism
- UK Field Trip
- Managing Across Cultures
- Sustainability and Ethics in Tourism Management
Benefits
- a wide range of subject choices and areas of interest
- highly vocational, linked to real life case studies
- fully supportive learning environment
Career paths
- travel agents, visitor attractions, theme parks, ski resort management, tour operators, airlines, tourist information and marketing, tourism planning and development agencies, historical buildings and conservation, commercial consultancy.
Are there any placements for this course?
A placement year is a required part of this degree.
“The opportunity to do a placement year was essential to my degree choice and gave me that extra experience needed in today’s world. I had the opportunity to put theory learnt through the course into practice when I undertook work experience during a year’s placement at The Sea Pines Resort, South Carolina in the United States, from which I gained valuable life skills and a wide knowledge of the leisure and tourism industries in America. The course also enabled me to develop my assignment writing, IT and time management skills.”
Caroline Jones Graduate, BA (Hons) Tourism Management
How will the course be assessed?
A wide range of types, with an emphasis on what you will need for the tourism industry, including: coursework, presentations, digital presentations, podcasts, feasibility studies, reports and portfolios.
Entry requirements
Points for degree: 240-260 using the UCAS Tariff system
Professional contact/industry links
A tourism prize for best student performance at the end of the final year is available from the Association for Tourism in Higher Education (ATHE)
Study Options
Full-time and part-time
Location
Oxstalls
Applications
All full-time applications should be made through UCAS.
We welcome applications from students from non-traditional backgrounds and from overseas.