Tourism and Marketing Management

For the award of an honours degree, you, the student, will be able to:

Demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects of tourism and marketing management within the tourism sector, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of defined aspects of a discipline with an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge.
Demonstrate an ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within the tourism and marketing management discipline and apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply your knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects.

Demonstrate conceptual understanding that enables the student:


to devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of a discipline


to describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in the discipline.




Demonstrate the ability to manage your own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline) and communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.


Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem.


Propose, undertake and present an independent study project that analyses a key issue in the area of business and human resource management.

2019 Entry

'A' Levels at grades BBC - CCC
BTEC QCF Extended Diploma grade MMM, BTEC QCF Diploma grade DD
Access to HE Diploma full award
If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying.
International entry requirements and application guidance can be found here

Other Requirements.
Students must have studied a minimum of two years post GCSE level. However, it is expected that some applicants will be mature students with work experience, who wish to further their career development