MSc Tourism Management

• Managing Visitor Attractions: You'll look at the principles and practice of managing a range of visitor attractions, including presentation, interpretation, visitor flows, managing capacity, and a range of case studies of management issues at different interests.

• Business Strategy & Finance: This looks at the foundations of strategic analysis and choices that tie into an organization's business decisions. This includes private, public, and third sectors. You'll study the corporate finance sources of organizations, reporting and interpreting financial data. This will help you understand the dynamics of the tourism, hospitality, and leisure sectors.

• Tourism Planning & Development: Planning is at the heart of tourism development, and the various ways tourism planning affects destinations, the tourism industry, and tourists is an essential component in understanding tourism. This unit demonstrates how planning theories are converted into policies and, in turn, help shape destination development in the tourism industry in both the developing and developed world.

• The Tourism & Hospitality Industries: This unit will provide a comprehensive overview of the operations of the tourism and hospitality industries. It includes many guest speakers from the industry.

• Destinations: Contexts for Tourism & Hospitality: Placing the tourism destination at the heart of the discussion, this unit explores the physical, conceptual and administrative spaces in which tourism and hospitality activities occur, providing the context for exploring the complex and interrelated activities of tourists activities. The unit will be international, drawing on examples and practices from developed and developing nations.

• Dissertation: This unit is the conclusion of your learning experience. It is an opportunity to undertake a detailed research project into tourism management. 

You'll also choose one of the units from the list below:

• Air Transport & Tourism: The unit aims to develop your awareness of the role of aviation management in the successful planning and development of international tourism. It will evaluate the potential barriers to continued growth and explore the conflicts and challenges of meeting both economic and environmental targets, highlighting the contribution of aviation to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

• Conference Tourism: Here, you'll reflect on the conference sector's growth and examine its present state by identifying the size, value, trends, and development of significant conference destinations worldwide. You'll also suggest how destinations and venues can develop a better conference product.

• Crisis & Disaster Management: You'll develop a systematic understanding of the unique needs and critical resources within crucial sectors and activities of Tourism, Hospitality, and Events. You'll complete several strategic and tactical planning exercises to address the need to integrate tourism and events within risk reduction, response, and recovery strategies.

• Design for Tourism & Hospitality: This unit addresses the role and significance of innovation in and for the tourism and hospitality industries at the level of individual businesses, organizations, sites, and events. It considers the creation of tangible and intangible objects or 'things' such as buildings (exteriors and interiors), maps and guides, souvenirs, live events, corporate identities, business processes, and servicescapes.

• Entrepreneurship: The process of creating a new entrepreneurial venture and funding sources for new and upcoming entrepreneurs. There's a focus on identifying and evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities. Entrepreneurial development may cover a single entity, a further investment by a portfolio entrepreneur, a management buy-out, a spin-out, or a venture in an existing organization.

• Food Design & Marketing: You will develop an understanding of the broad context of food design and marketing. The unit focuses on food in terms of its aesthetics, the processes and tools used, the spaces where food is, prepared, distributed, and consumed, and how these are promoted and communicated to the consumers, emphasizing consumer behavior towards food.

• Global Food & Drink: The unit will provide an in-depth analysis of the role of food and drink in the international hospitality, tourism, retail, and events business environment. Understanding the nature of our relationship with food socially, economically, politically, environmentally, and in terms of technology is valuable to other strategic and operational areas of expertise.

• Tourism Management & the Natural Environment: You'll critically reflect upon the significance and impact of tourism on a variety of ecosystems, the use of animals in tourism, how tourism can be successfully managed to ensure it contributes to the goals of biodiversity and conservation; and the relationship between climatic changes and tourism development.