Apply Now
Contact Us

Contact Us

We would like to hear from you. Please send us a message by filling out the form below and we will get back with you shortly.

Edit Template

Course Details

BSc Business and Tourism Management with Foundation Year

Details
Key Points
Modules

 

  • Duration: 4 years inclusive of the Foundation Year
  • Study Mode: Full-time
  • Assessment: Writing assignments, simulations, laboratory experiments, quizzes, and orals
  • Placements/Practical Experience: Placements within the tourism related business houses and organizations and acquire practical experience of the field.

 

The first year content of the program is primarily developed to familiarize the students with the core concepts of business and the tourism industry along with assessing their academic skills including research, critical thinking and presentation skills. Students then carry forward into more comprehensives sectors in tourism management, such as sustainable measures, market approaches, and business aspects in tourism.

  • Foundation Year: The first year orients students to the business realm, values of the tourism industry, and necessary academic skills for future academic pursuits.
  • Business Fundamentals: Students receive intensive knowledge about the basic business concepts and roles that are involved in the market such as; marketing, finance and management.
  • Tourism Management: The modalities of practicing tourism management through topics concerning the operations, marketing, and environment of the sector.
  • Sustainability in Tourism: The concerns about environment friendly practices and comprehending how the sectors participating in tourist trade can encourage environment friendly tourism.
  • Global Business Environment: Knowledge of the ways that tourism businesses are managed taking into account the tendencies and opportunities of the global economy.
  • Career-Focused Learning: The course provides opportunities for real life case study analysis, guest speakers and potential placement that allow the student direct entry into the world of tourism.

Foundation Year:

  • Introduction to Business and Tourism: Offers the basic business concepts and an insight into the tourism sector.
  • Academic and Research Skills: Reveals and refines study skills, logic, research approaches and presentation skills.
  • Global Business Environment: Gives an insight of the global business environment and the economic environment of tourism.

Year 1:

  • Principles of Business Management: Concentrates on the basic aspects of the management of enterprises, conceptualized in terms of structures and plans.
  • Tourism Industry Overview: In this paper conceptualizes and analyzes the characteristics and functions of the tourism economy.
  • Marketing Fundamentals: Overview of the fundamental concepts and ideas of marketing as well as the focus on the tourism sector marketing.

Year 2:

  • Sustainable Tourism: It provides information related to sustainable issues and measures in tourism management and eco-tourism and responsible traveling.
  • Business Operations in Tourism: Examines functional aspects of operating tourism related enterprises, including hotels, resorts, and travel agencies.
  • Consumer Behavior: Analyzes how consumers in the tourism industry engage in buying and using goods and services, what factors affect consumption.

Year 3:

  • Tourism Marketing Strategies: The course deals with how tourism products and services are marketed especially through the internet and social media.
  • Event and Destination Management: Concentration on the planning, promotion and management of events and tourist attractions.
  • Final Research Project: Tourism related research assignment for students which enables them to identify a problem and develop an action plan for solving it.

Career

Graduates of the BSc Business and Tourism Management program have a wide range of career opportunities within the tourism sector, supported by a solid foundation in business principles:

  • Tourism Manager: Managing tourism activities for example travel agency, tour operators or a tourist attraction site.
  • Event Manager: Special occasions including festivals, business meetings, and symposiums, trade fairs, corporate events etc.
  • Marketing Manager: Setting up of a marketing plan in relation to tourism relevant products, places or travel agencies.
  • Hotel Manager: Supervising working routines in hotels or resorts and striving to achieve guests’ satisfaction and proper organization of the services provided.
  • Sustainability Consultant: Providing insights to tour operators and companies on their sustainable tourism plan transformation.
  • Travel Consultant: Helping clients to book travelling accommodation and offering any information concerning their desired destination and the best time to visit as well as aiding in arranging their day by day schedule.
  • Destination Manager: Overseeing and marketing tourism areas so as to encourage tourist consumption responsibly to ensure sustainable development.
  • Sales Manager: Promoting choice of tourism services and goods including travel packages, hotel accommodations and tour services.
  • Entrepreneur: Starting a personalized enterprise in tourism or leisure industry including setting up a travel agency, owning a business of tour operating company, or an organisational venture in a restaurant or hotel, etc.
  • Business Analyst: Applying business analysis knowledge in relation to the functioning and promotion of organizations in the sphere of tourism.

Apply Here

Contact Us

Next Consultants Ltd, registered with Companies House, England and Wales Company number 15414308, and with the Information Commissioner’s Office Data Protection Registration Certificate Number ZB715410.

© 2024 Created by Next Consultants LTD