Top up your academic credits and gain valuable tourism and hospitality expertise.
On this top-up course you can convert your foundation, HND or academic credits into a full honours degree. You'll learn about the domestic and international tourism and hospitality industries, and how they intersect. Upon graduating, you'll have gained sought-after expertise and skills.

Live projects

Learning activities are often based on case studies and problem solving exercises, which encourage students to take an enquiry-based approach and to apply their knowledge to real world problems and issues of international tourism and hospitality business management.

As part of the course you get the opportunity to work on real business and consultancy projects to build your skills and professional experience.

Networking opportunities

You will frequently engage with tourism and hospitality industry stakeholders during your study. Many modules include industry guest speakers and field trips. Our students also have close relationship with the industries through our staff members’ industry network, our association with the Tourism Management Institute, and our alumni network.

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

This course seeks to equip students with the means to gain worthwhile employment within the tourism and hospitality sectors. You'll learn important management principles and apply them in practical and consultancy projects and case studies. While doing so, you'll also study the tourism and hospitality industries in depth, with an emphasis on contemporary issues.

Employability is a key emphasis: our curriculum reflects the key employability capabilities recommended by the Confederation of British Industry/UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

You learn through

• lectures, seminars and workshops
• practical projects in world-class facilities
• visiting speakers
• research projects
• consultancy projects
• academic reading

This course prepares you for a career in

• customer service management
• food and beverage management
• front of house
• product development and management
• operations management
• marketing and promotion

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• Cosmos Holidays
• Monarch Holidays
• TUI
• All Leisure Holiday Group
• Manchester International Airport
• Heathrow Airport
• Jet2.com
• Jury's Inn
• Fairmont Hotels
• Virgin Atlantic
• Marriot Hotels

Normally one from

• a HND or foundation degree in a relevant subject, with an overall merit profile from year two modules

• equivalent qualification in a relevant subject

You can find information on making sense of UCAS tariff points here and use the UCAS tariff calculator to work out your points.

If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 or above, with a minimum score of 5.5 in each skill.

Please note the University will only admit students who are aged 18 or over at the point of enrolment.

Important notice:

The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.

Final Year Compulsory modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Consultancy And Enterprise Challenge	40	Coursework Practical
Research Project	20	Coursework
Strategy And Crisis Management In International Tourism And Hospitality	20	Coursework

 

Elective modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Foreign Language (French, Spanish, Italian)	20	Coursework Practical
Critical Approaches In Hospitality Marketing, Experiences And Analytics	20	Coursework
Hotel Operational Analysis	20	Coursework
Sustainable Tourism Planning	20	Coursework
Tourism Destination Marketing	20	Coursework