This programme offers flexibility in terms of career choice and meets industry demand because there is a wide appeal amongst employers for graduates who have wide range of knowledge and expertise in the sector.
Why choose this course?
This programme offers flexibility in terms of career choice and meets industry demand because there is a wide appeal amongst employers for graduates who have wide range of knowledge and expertise in the sector. The MA International Tourism and Hospitality Management course will equip you with the agile, reflexive and critical thinking skills which are vital for success in modern organisations. You will be able to use prior experience and certificated learning to gain credits against the programme.
The course is unique in bringing together the two subject areas and teaching on the course is undertaken by experienced practitioners. The teaching team have published widely in both subject areas and the Department has been recognised as a centre of excellence by the Institute of Travel and Tourism.
The course is based around four core pillars of digital business, sustainable business, innovative business and responsible business and students will explore the functional areas of business through these themes giving them an immersive experience which will result in a thorough understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by organisations in the 21st century. For example, some modules are designed with foundation in Sustainable Tourism Development and multidisciplinary approach to the topic of sustainability. Also, others examine issues and global cases in Innovation, Competitiveness, Digitalisation of tourism and hospitality business, Diversification, Leadership and People management, and Emerging market issues. This module incorporates state of the art research for the team and leading researchers in the field of tourism and hospitality.
What happens on the course?
This course is designed to equip professionals to undertake a range of diverse operational and strategic management roles within the hospitality and tourism sectors. Studying on this programme you will be introduced to application of management concepts relating to hospitality and event organisations, including tourism planning, destination management and hotel related operations.
You will gain knowledge in the use and management of a range of property and venue types, ranging from B&Bs to mixed development properties. You will be able to work with technology and tools associated with the management of hospitality and tourism to create exceptional consumer experiences. You’ll also be equipped with the skills to manage material, financial and human resources to ensure sustainability. You will be provided a contextual knowledge base from which you can interpret relevant concepts and theories and develop ideas not only to provide solutions to the complex challenges facing tourism and hospitality organisations but also communicate these solutions effectively to a range of audiences using a variety of medium including digital platforms.
If you are interested in owning and managing your own business and wish to acquire business skills this is the course for you! You will develop skills in enterprise, employability and entrepreneurship necessary for the creation of tourism and hospitality business in a wide range of settings.
Course Modules
YEAR 1
- Contemporary and Global Issues in Tourism and Hospitality 
- Managing Hotel and Accommodation in the Digital World
- Strategic Operations Management
- The Masters Research Project
- Tourism Planning & Development
- Financial Management of Projects
- The Masters Professional Project
- The Masters Research Project
Potential Career Paths
In the first instance, the course enables you to have a wider range of employment sector outcomes in either more traditional hospitality careers, or the tourism management area. Employability is incorporated in all the subject specific modules that seek to engage students with hospitality and tourism management discourse for future employment and continuing personal and professional development. Some aspects of the course include live project simulation in which you will engage with a real location to develop a practically feasible project. To meet the needs of those who may want to run their own business in tourism consulting, event catering, food service and travel operations entrepreneurial dimension is emphasised.
There is also the pathway of higher and further education teaching in terms of career path and development. Some of our master’s students are in lecturing jobs in HEIs and FEIs in the UK and overseas. Students also have the option to progress to higher degree. A master’s qualification prepares you for PhD study. Increasingly the department is attracting PhD students in the subject area.
What skills will you gain?
- Critically analyse key concepts, processes and theories and their application in professional practice to provide effective solutions to operational and strategic issues in hospitality and event management.
- Critically evaluate social, cultural, economic and technological trends in the leisure economy to effectively design and manage sustainable products/services.
- Synthesise effective event and catering plans in order to deliver a competitive visitor economy product.
- Critically evaluate event and hospitality marketing and the role of advanced technology in managing visitor/guest experience.
- Critically engage with hospitality and event management discourse for future employment or continuing personal and professional development.
- Synthesise and analyse appropriate secondary and primary data to effectively address contemporary hospitality and event issues.
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