ABE Advanced Diploma in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality

The ABE's Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Programme provides a pathway through which students aspiring to management roles in the sector can develop a combination of key business skills and industry knowledge in preparation for the varied and demanding careers which the industry offers. The ABE is the market leader in the cost-effective provision of quality-assured British management education leading to awards which are valued in their own right, but which are also recognised as an accepted route into the later stages of a number of other UK and overseas professional or university qualifications.

The three compulsory papers are:

1. Corporate Strategy
2. International Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
3. Tourism and the Environment

Students must pass two of the following options:

4. Management Organisation
5. Strategic Marketing
6. Strategic Human Resource Management
7. Managing the Information Resource

The Advanced Diploma papers are set and marked to the level of the second year of a UK Business Studies degree programme.

Following passes in the requisite five subjects above, the successful student will be awarded the Advanced Diploma in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality.

No exemption is granted from any subject in the Advanced Diploma Examination.

The Method of Assessment for all ABE subjects is by written examination and the following Grades are awarded:

Grade A - 70%+ Distinction
Grade B - 55-69% Credit
Grade C - 40-54% Pass
Grade D - 30-39% Fail
Grade E - 29% and below Fail

Candidates will be notified individually of their results normally about two months after the examinations.