BA (Hons) in Tourism Management with specialism in Hospitality

This programme is specifically designed to provide students with:

• An understanding of the context, nature, function and significance of travel, tourism, hospitality and events activities to hold executive management and leadership positions in the industry.
• A comprehensive awareness of technical and operational expertise, as well as sustainability of the tourism and hospitality industry with an emphasis on economic, environmental, social-cultural, and technological factors.
• Exposure to theoretical and practical issues of tourism and hospitality businesses.
• A wide range of employable skills, such as the ability to do research, develop, and market tourism and hospitality products and destinations; critical thinking; problem-solving; and interpretative skills; and excellent written and oral communication.

DEGREE LEVEL 1

Students will be equipped with theoretical and practical aspects of tourism as a discipline. In addition, students will also be exposed to the basic understanding of the context within which travel, tourism, hospitality and events industry operate through modules such as introduction to hospitality and tourism, management, accounting, marketing, entrepreneurship, law, people management and with specific focus on issues involved in managing services besides developing business and communication skills, digital thinking, and independent learning. Students will also be exposed to various techniques and applications involved in virtual reality and augmented reality in introduction to VRAR and Metaverse.

DEGREE LEVEL 2

A broader range of skills will be learnt, in which students will gain better understanding in supervising business and handling management operations, such as e-tourism, digital marketing, consumer behaviour, retail travel, geography, ticketing and computer reservation systems, innovation processes, international culture and communications, revenue management, hotel accommodation and restaurant management. In addition, they will explore topics and techniques in various sectoral applications within tourism management. We will nurture their independent learning to prepare them for the workplace and for further project oriented and research activities.

INTERNSHIP (16 WEEKS)

Students will undertake an Internship/Industrial Training for a minimum period of 16 weeks to prepare them for a smooth transition from the classroom to the working environment.

DEGREE LEVEL 3

Students will make use of their previous studies and industrial experience to extend their familiarity in, studying crisis management and communications, sustainability, managing people and performance, investigation, venture building, tourism policy and planning, hotel innovation management, services management, MICE, and international tourism marketing with analyzing sustainable tourism developments, related policies, discovering new opportunities, exploring competitive advantage and decision making processes, with aims to groom them as hospitality industry leaders. A final year research project in hospitality management requires them to explore a topic individually – they will demonstrate their academic and practical ability in the chosen area of study

MQA COMPULSORY SUBJECTS*