Hospitality,Tourism and Event Management

• This degree course offers the ultimate in flexibility offering a two, three or four year degree course dependent upon your requirements.
• Our lecturers have significant professional experience in hospitality, tourism and event management.
• Graduates of the BA (Hons) Hospitality, Tourism and Events Management programme will also be awarded a Level 5 Certificate in Management and Leadership from The Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
• Gaining practical experience and developing commercial competence is a key component of this degree.
• Students enjoy affiliate membership of the Institute of Hospitality whilst studying.

As part of the degree we will provide all of our students with direct, practical experience. It will certainly involve real life event management experience during your studies. However, it could also include the opportunity to take a work placement that will significantly enhance your CV and employment prospects.

In your first year you will study a broad range of business and introductory degree specific modules. You will then progress onto advanced modules that provide greater breadth of knowledge and experience such as managing and executing events, visitor attraction management, gastronomy and oenology, service/ relationship marketing, corporate social responsibility and human resource management.

• Business: Past, Present and Future
• Business Communication Skills for Marketing
• Introduction to the Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management industry
• Marketing Essentials
• Data Analytics and Understanding 'Big Data'
• Creating Events

• Competitive Intelligence
• Event Management and Execution
• Customer Service Excellence
• Advertising and Branding
• Engaging and Leading People
• Digital Marketing
• Visitor Attraction Management

• Strategic Thinking (C)
• Gastronomy and Oenology (C)
• Contemporary Issues in Hospitality Management (C)
• International Human Resource Management (O)
• Strategic Marketing (O)
• Dissertation/Work Placement (C/O)

The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the programme that will take the form of either core or option modules. Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal academic framework review, so may be subject to change.