Tourism and Hospitality Management

MSc Tourism and Hospitality Management

Delivery method: Full-time (12/15 months)
Course Reference: TMFH

Course Overview

BU has been voted Number 1 for Tourism for the second year running in the Guardian University League Tables.

The UK is home to a world-renowned hospitality and tourism industry. It’s the longest established industry in the world and is highly respected.

The make-up of the course is truly international, giving you a unique opportunity to mix with a diverse range of nationalities, allowing you to increase your intercultural competence – vital preparation for working in a mixed-nationality workforce or dealing with a mixed-nationality clientele.

This course will give you a detailed understanding of the international tourism and hospitality businesses and their importance within the global economy, developing your knowledge and skills to progress further into a successful career in these dynamic sectors.

Delivered by leading research-active academics such as Professor John Edwards and Dr Heather Hartwell, who are actively engaged with industry at local, national and international levels.

This is aided by an optional 30-week placement, designed to give you further hands-on skills that will help make you even more attractive to potential employers.

Once you have fulfilled the course requirements you will be knowledgeable about diversity, aware of cultural differences associated with managerial work both in the UK and overseas, and be able to develop your aptitude for leadership within the tourism and hospitality industry.

Accreditations: Accredited to the UNWTO.TedQual, a UNWTO. Themis Foundation programme whose main objective is to improve the quality of the tourism education, training and research programmes. Institute of Hospitality (UK); British Hospitality Association

Why BU?

• Have run innovative and industry-led hospitality courses since 1977 - Ranked number one in the UK for tourism (including Hospitality) by the Guardian 2008
• Home to two of the world's top ten tourism journals (International Journal of Tourism Research and Tourism Economics) and one of the leading international textbooks (Tourism Principles and Practice)