University of Plymouth

Course Description

• ​This programme will furnish students with a combination of tourism and hospitality theory, operational skills and practical methods of analysis
• Students can take the opportunity to study the related areas of tourism and hospitality within a single programme to ensure students have the tools to become a confident and high executive-level managers in the international tourism and hospitality sector
• Students will learn from research-active staff at the forefront of knowledge, conducting research into areas such as the social impacts of tourism, the relationship between tourism and crime, working conditions in the industry, the adoption and reporting of corporate social responsibility, tourism education, and literary and heritage tourism in Cornwall
• The programme has developed close relationships with the tourism and hospitality industry in which students can access a range of industry engagement opportunities such as consultancy projects for real businesses, guest sessions from industry practitioners, industry-led workshops and fieldwork visits to travel-related exhibitions and destinations
• The design of the programme focuses on four taught modules and a capstone project