Course Overview

Are you a budding business manager or owner? Want to specialise in tourism?

Whatever your aspirations, our Business and Management (Tourism Management) course will give you a good grounding in the theory and practice of business in the context of contemporary tourism. We teach you the theories of business and management in practical ways, ensuring that you’re ready to tackle real-world challenges. You'll engage in hands-on projects and case studies that hone your analytical and problem-solving skills. Along the way, you’ll develop the core skills you need to excel in all kinds of businesses and start to build a clear picture of exactly where those skills could take you.

We’ll help you develop as a person to achieve your potential by teaching you about tourism management and how it works. 

This Business degree offers an Integrated Foundation Year, making it ideal for students who wish to build their skills before transitioning to an undergraduate honors degree in Business and Management. 

Following the Foundation Year, you’ll develop specialist skills, learning to:

• Evaluate different approaches to destination management

• Understand contemporary conceptualisations of social change as they relate to tourism

• Demonstrate your knowledge of a range of emerging tourism forms.

You’ll graduate with potential for employment in different businesses; this could be an organisation, the private or public sector, a charity or possibly your own business. We aim to give you the skills to apply your knowledge in a wide range of situations in any sector.

General Eligibility

We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes with an integrated foundation year:

• A minimum of five GCSE passes at grade C/4 or above (including Maths and English) or international equivalent. The qualifications must have been awarded within the last five years. Evidence of ongoing recent study preferred. Or;

• If you do not have formal or recent qualifications, you can support your application with evidence of appropriate skills and knowledge acquired through a minimum of three years post-school professional work experience. Accompanying your application, you must write an essay of 500 words setting out the following:

  1. A summary of your work experience

  2. A consideration on how that experience has advanced your skills and knowledge

  3. A summary of how that experience relates to the course of study applied for.

Part Time Work Details

For international students include a maximum allocation of 20 hours per week.

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language, we will need to see evidence of your proficiency in the English language.

  Generally, we are looking for a score equivalent to IELTS 5.5, with no less than 5.5 in each of the four components of Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. We accept a range of qualifications including:

  • IELTS

  • TOEFL iBT with a minimum score of 64

  • Pearson PTE with a minimum score of 45

  • Duolingo with a minimum score of 95

  • Academic qualifications taught in English can also be accepted, such as GCSE English Language with a minimum grade C/4.