Overview

This innovative program with an excellent bespoke design, one of only a handful in the North of England, offers you the opportunity to combine modules from across the aviation, travel, and tourism sectors, with the chance to top-up to a relevant BA (Hons) with a further year of full-time study.

This is an award of Teesside University delivered in partnership with Stockton Riverside College.

Professional accreditation

We are a member of the Institute for Travel and Tourism (ITT), giving you access to a dedicated ITT Future You Talent Hub, helping to inspire the next generation of travel and tourism experts. As an ITT Member, you can engage with national and international events and develop your professional network with organizations including British Airways, Advantage, ABTA, Business Travel Association, and many more.

Managing Human Resources

You gain an understanding of the main theories of Human Resource Management (HRM) and how they are applied within the workplace. You gain theoretical and practical underpinning for the comprehension and analysis of the nature of HRM, including the formal systems devised for the management of people within an organization.

Personal and Professional Development

You develop your understanding of academic and subject-specific skills and acquaint yourself with a range of academic conventions and practices. If you are a work-based learner, you can develop key personal skills. You reflect on your own learning and achievement is developed to assist you to proceed to the next stage of your career. It equips and prepares you to work autonomously and become independent, in preparation for employment and higher-level study.

Technology in Aviation and Tourism

This module will enable the learner to develop an appreciation of the operational benefits of Information Technology (I.T.) in the travel and tourism industry. It will introduce learners to the fast-changing nature of IT, current developments, and their effects on the management of information. It will provide learners with the practical skills to make full use of that technology. Learners will examine trends in IT and consider the implications of technological developments upon the industry.

Career opportunities

You study a range of subject-specific and business modules that provide you with excellent balance and flexibility that can lead to a range of careers from across the sector - public sector tourism management, airport management, retail travel management, business, hospitality, and leisure. Recent alumni and current students have secured employment both locally and nationally with leading sector organizations such as Jet2, EasyJet, British Airways, Swissport, Securitas, Durham Tees Valley Airport, Newcastle International Airport, Gatwick Airport, and TUI in a range of roles from cabin crew through to retail travel agents.