
Tourism and Hospitality Management BA (Hons)
Coventry, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The tourism and hospitality sector is rapidly expanding locally and globally. It offers a wide range of career opportunities, including hotels, resorts, restaurants, event planning, travel agencies and tourism boards, contributing billions to the UK economy.
Course overview
Tourism is a key area of the domestic and global economies. As such, there is a real demand for talented individuals who understand the management of tourism and hospitality businesses and who can help develop strategic and operational business solutions.
Our comprehensive tourism and hospitality course prepares you to navigate the dynamic landscape of the industry, equipping you with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in diverse sectors both locally and globally.
Why study this course
This course is designed to ensure that our graduates are the talented and knowledgeable individuals needed for the tourism and hospitality industry, providing you with the skillset to be successful in this growing market.
This industry is fast-paced and challenging, requiring flexible, hardworking and determined individuals to head the evolving industry. Working in this industry opens the possibility of exciting working conditions, meeting people from all cultures and using creativity to solve problems in your day-to-day activities. A degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management develops a range of transferable skills that are valuable in various industries. These skills include communication, leadership, problem-solving, teamwork, customer service, and organisational abilities.
As a broad, successful and widely respected degree, students who study this course can benefit from varied career prospects. This course incorporates general business and management principles, so you could progress into the hotel industry, events management, travel operations and many more.
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Curriculum
Year One
You will be introduced to the impact of globalisation on countries, cultures and the tourism and hospitality industry. This introductory year aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the key issues and problems in the contemporary development of hospitality and tourism. You’ll explore management and marketing principles, the global environment and tourism basics, gaining a solid foundation for progression into years two and three. Students who successfully complete year one are eligible for an HNC in Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Modules
- IT Project Management
- Digital Transformation Strategy
- Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
- Individual Project Preparations
- Business Process Engineering with Enterprise Systems
- Big Data Intelligence and Modelling
- Global Business Management
- Simulation
- Project
- Leading Diverse Workforces
Year Two
You will be given the opportunity to learn to identify key theoretical and sociological approaches and analyse the ways in which social factors and institutions are constructed and represented. Students who successfully complete year two are eligible for an HND in Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Modules
- Human Resource Management in Tourism and Hospitality
- Sustainable Tourism and Destination Management
- Strategic Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism
- Crisis Management and the Impact on the Global Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Placement Year
There is no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final year of study. They are a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.
Previous students of this course have gained internships domestically and internationally at global companies such as the Cosmopolitan Boutique Hotel in Spain and in America through BSG placements in their executive country clubs. Sandwich or placement years are completely optional and do not count towards your final classification. However, they can be valuable experience and may help you to stand out from the crowd of graduates when applying for jobs.
Modules
- UK Work Placement
- International Study/Work Placement
Final Year
This year you are working at a professional level, taking on a managerial perspective and clarifying your leadership skills. You will be building on the culmination of knowledge gained in previous years and focusing on transferable skills including project and time management. Centring on executive topics, you will cover events management, strategic business and present a professional-level consultancy project. You will become confident in your own development planning and demonstrate commitment to your continuous improvement as an aspiring manager of teams.
Students who successfully complete year three are awarded a BA (Hons) degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management and a Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality (CTH) Level 6 Advanced Diploma in Tourism Management.
Modules
- Emerging Issues in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
- Strategic Business Impact
- Event Management for Tourism and Hospitality
- Investigative Project in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
On successful completion, you will be able to:
- demonstrate understanding and knowledge of the theoretical, analytical and practical aspects of policies, strategies and processes within a changing environment
- critically appraise theories related to the development of a tourism management strategy including, the risk factors that need to be considered in the
- development of a successful strategy, such as, country, currency, cultural and competitor risk
- develop appropriate research, alongside the ability to undertake reliable market research activities
- operate, lead and collaborate in a team to solve problems of a practical (experimental) nature and to provide appropriate solutions
- apply appropriate presentation and evaluation tools to establish the significance of research data produced.
Where our graduates work
Some graduates have gone onto further study in business, advertising, public relations, enterprise and branding at institutions across the UK and internationally, while others have gone on to work successfully in global companies such as the Marriott Hotel, Whitbread and Birmingham Airport.