TOURISM AND EVENTS MANAGEMENT BA Honours
Course summary
Our Tourism and Events Management BA explores the relationship between tourism, events and the wider environment, developing the skills you need to successfully evaluate and manage tourism and stage events in host destinations. The course is designed for students who have an interest in the tourism sector generally and are keen to focus on the dynamic field of events management. The course is designed to provide a combination of the practical elements of events management with an in-depth understanding of the potential impacts of events and their role in developing destination product and destination image. The course takes an international perspective and includes a field trip in each year of study.
The course provides a thorough grounding in the subject and the theoretical principles that underpin tourism and event policy and management, but also has a strong emphasis on skills development for the workplace, including presentation skills, research, data analysis, budgeting, negotiation and content planning. Each student is allocated a personal tutor for academic guidance and pastoral care.
Career development
All of our students, no matter which tourism course they take, come away with a good grounding in tourism from a theoretical and practical perspective.
We take a policy-oriented approach, drawing on issues of strategy and planning, which means you'll be well-suited to work in planning and strategic roles in your future career.
Industry links
We have a well-established network of professional links throughout London, the UK and much further afield. Many of our staff have previously worked in tourism or events, or are still active in the industry (working part-time with us, and part-time in their own businesses).
Graduate employers
Our recent graduates have gone on to work in the following roles:
- Aspermont – senior conference producer
- Astarte – project manager and curator
- Bovingdon’s Catering – senior sales and event manager
- Expedia – health and safety specialist
- Facebook – event operations co-ordinator
- Generation Y – digital account executive
- Hilton Park Lane – groups conference and event sales executive
- Love Holidays – purchasing manager
- Ministry Of Sound – event manager
- Olympia Exhibition And Conference Centre – marketing executive
- Roots International Group – researcher
- Serendipity Tailormade – sales executive
- Stobart Jet Centre – operations executive
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