MSc Tourism Management

Course details If you want to study part-time, you’ll study alongside full-time students over two years. You'll be expected to study a minimum of three units per year, along with your dissertation towards the end of your second year. The timetable for when units take place varies each year but the typical delivery for one unit is four hours a week, split between two sessions, so you will be required to be on campus at least two days a week. We can work with you to consider the timetable and make an appropriate individual plan in terms of which order to study which units. Core units Tourism & Hospitality Principles & Practice: This unit is international in nature, drawing on examples and practices from developed and developing countries. You'll appreciate the broad study of tourism as a field in its own right. Business Strategy & Finance: The foundations of strategic analysis and choices that tie into an organisation’s business decisions. This includes private, public and third sector. You'll study the corporate finance sources of organisations, reporting and interpreting financial data. This will help you understand the dynamics of the tourism, hospitality and leisure sectors. Tourism, Management & Society: Tourism from the perspective of social science theories. More specifically, the contribution of social sciences to the understanding of tourism. You'll understand the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of tourism studies and the complexities of tourism as an industry and a social phenomenon. Managing Visitor Attractions: The development and redevelopment of cultural and heritage attractions. You'll review the management of cultural and heritage resources by offering a principal or secondary attraction for tourist destinations. This part of the sector represents a significant component for domestic and international visitors and it includes historic, man-made and contemporary attractions. Research Methods: You'll learn how to collect, analyse, interpret and present both qualitative and quantitative data. You will be able to understand the nature of research, and its associated ethics which will provide essential underpinning for your research project. Dissertation: An opportunity to study a subject in-depth, showing your understanding of it. The dissertation is the conclusion of your learning experience, where you'll carry out a research project. You'll use appropriate research methodology to collect and analyse data and present your findings. Your dissertation will be 15,000 words, and you'll be taught about research methods. Option units (choose one) Aviation, Tourism Development & Climate Change: The role of aviation management in the planning and development of international tourism. You'll evaluate the potential barriers to growth and explore the challenges of meeting economic and environmental targets, highlighting aviation's contribution 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 growth of major conference destinations throughout the world. 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 that exist within key sectors and activities of Tourism, Hospitality and Events. You'll complete a number of strategic and tactical planning exercises aimed at addressing the need to integrate tourism and events within risk reduction, response and recovery strategies. Creative Industries in Tourism & Events: This unit will provide an overview of the creative industries highlighting the relationship to tourism and the importance of events (such as think tanks, festivals, etc.) in the creative industries. 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 organisation. Food & Drink: Food and drink gives us sustenance, meets our nutritional needs and forms the basis for many of life’s experiences. It's also central to the hospitality, tourism, retail and events sectors. As such, understanding our relationship with food socially, economically, politically, environmentally and technologically is valuable for strategic and operational areas of expertise. Mobile Communication & Mobile Marketing: Design and evaluate innovative mobile applications for an effective marketing communication campaign. You'll learn to understand, design and evaluate mobile communication and marketing initiatives in experience-based industries. Sport Tourism: Learn about the features of sport tourism and the changing demands for it, along with its supply structures and impacts on and responses from sport and tourism providers. You'll explore how sport, tourism and events interact. Wildlife, Nature & Ecotourism: Investigate the philosophical influence that ‘ecotourism’ has had on a range of tourism products, as well as tourism products where aspects of the World’s ecosystems are the principal focus of the tourism experience. You'll explore the potential and limits of developing natural-based tourism products and experiences. Economics for Tourism and Hospitality: This unit will equip you with in-depth knowledge of economics and data analytical skills to analyse tourism and hospitality data and assess the costs and benefits associated with the expansion of this sector. Please note that option units require minimum numbers in order to run and may only be available on a semester by semester basis. They may also change from year to year. Optional work placement The placement is intended to foster personal and professional development, and to help you to make a connection between academic learning and the working world. You should consider how a range of management theories can be used, and if management in industry could be improved. The transferable skills developed will improve your performance in your future career, both as employee and manager. 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