FdA Travel and Tourism Management with Placement

University of West London

Foundation degree

In City of London

£ 9,000 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Foundation degree

  • Location

    City of london

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary
Overview
This course is designed to give you a thorough understanding of the international tourism industry. Through study of key business skills, relevant academic learning and real-world work experience, you will get a flying start to an exciting career in travel and tourism.

Why choose this course?
London is one of the world’s most popular destinations, and attracts tourists from all over the globe. Studying at UWL puts you in prime position to gain exposure to the industry, supplement your learning and build contacts.
We have built strong links with major tourism employers, enabling us to offer you unique opportunities. These include guest lecturers from leading industry practitioners and work placements to help you get a foot in the door of this highly competitive industry.

During the course, you will undertake a one year work placement, enabling you to enhance your industry skills and knowledge and put theory into practice within a real business environment. Our students have found exciting placements all over the world.

This is an intensive skill-based course that will prepare you for a wide range of different operational roles with the travel and tourism industry. A period of time spent working in the travel and tourism industry is a feature of this course.

Career and study progression
A career within the travel and tourism industry provides you with opportunities all over the world. Popular careers for our graduates include tours, hotels and cruises.
On successful completion you will be able to progress on to our BA (Hons) Travel and Tourism Management top-up degree.

For more details please see the Career and study progression section.
Other options available for FdA Travel and Tourism Management with Placement
Part time - January 2017, Ealing site
Full time - September 2017, Ealing site
Part time - September 2017, Ealing site

Facilities

Location

Start date

City of London (London)
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St Mary's Rd, W5 5RF

Start date

On request

About this course

Entry requirements
You will need 180 UCAS tariff points in a minimum of 2 subjects. These can include:
A Levels at grade B and C, or above
BTEC Extended Diploma with Merit, Merit, Pass
Access to HE Diploma
You also need GCSE English and Maths (grade A*-C) or Level 2 equivalents.
If you do not hold the above qualifications but possess relevant work experience, you are invited to apply. Your application will be considered on an individual basis.
International students
International students need to meet our English language requirement at either IELTS at 6.0 or above and a minimum of...

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Subjects

  • Options
  • Travel and Tourism
  • Tourism
  • Industry
  • Part Time
  • Tourism Industry
  • Travel Tourism

Course programme

Course detail
You will learn about contemporary issues associated with the travel and tourism industry, such as:
visitor attractions
tour operators
travel agencies
transportation for tourism
governments and tourism.
This is a vocationally focused course, with a range of management related modules to develop your personal and professional skills. You will learn about the areas of sales and marketing, legislative frameworks and managing people, providing you with the core knowledge to work successfully within a travel and tourism environment.
Our diverse module options and your dissertation will help you explore the areas of particular interest to you. This will help you explore your specialism, so you can identify and work towards your career goals.
If you already hold a related HND/FdA qualification and have relevant industry work experience, you can enter the final year of the degree directly. Other qualifications may also exempt you from part of the course. In Year Four (Year Three accredited work placement route) (Credit Level 6) you have the opportunity to choose optional modules, so you can tailor the course to suit you, and complete a dissertation based on an area of particular interest.
Year one (level 4) modules
Introduction to Tourism Management
Academic Development and Employability
Principles of Leadership and Management
Introduction to Accounting and Finance
Travel Geography
Tourism Culture and Society.
Year two (level 5)
Sales and Marketing
Human Resource Management
Travel and Tourism Law
Research Methods for Managers / Placement
Tourism Option (one from Attractions Management or Inclusive Tour Operations)
Tourism Option (one from Tourism and Transportation or Understanding Business Tourism).

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