International Hospitality and Tourism Management (Final Year Entry)

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Business Analytics for Hospitality and Tourism

  This module enables students to understand the content, importance and relevance of business analytics and data visualisation in business decision-making with a focus on the hospitality and tourism industry. It will provide the key concepts, knowledge and methods combined with extensive opportunities to develop hands-on skills for applying business analytics and data visualisation to managerial decision-making.

• Critical Enquiry Research Project

  Engage with an independent research project. This module will draw together your research skills developed earlier in the programme to support you to develop an extended study on a topic of your choosing within the business and management field. The project includes designing and implementing an investigation which takes account of multiple and possibly conflicting stakeholder objectives; applies suitable research approaches in an ethical manner; and communicates, using suitable technologies, with the intention of making recommendations for practice.

• Entrepreneurship and Creativity Enterprise in Hospitality and Tourism

  During the module, students will learn about what is involved in being a successful entrepreneur in the Hospitality and Tourism industry sectors and learn techniques to foster creativity and innovation. This module provides an experience centred around the potential for venture creation but also takes students to consider a wider role of creativity and enterprise in the workplace, helping them broaden their perspective on the role of creativity and enterprise in a variety of settings.

• Essential Skills for Academic Success

  In this module you will start to develop your academic literacies to use on other modules across your final year programme including:

  • research skills
  • critical thinking
  • reflection
  • academic writing
  • and presentation skills.
     

• Food, Drink and Culture

  In this module students explore complex relationships between food and drink, individuals and societies. They analyse a variety of factors that shape these relationships and examine their consequences for health, the environment, the distinctiveness of cultures, and the cohesiveness of communities. This module encourages students to think more critically and to argue convincingly about the extensive implications of food and drink-related practices for society.

• Managing Careers

  Build your knowledge of the theory and practice of career management. You will  demonstrate critical insight into your own knowledge, skills and experience and consider how this might allow you to manage your post-graduation career. You will also apply these ideas as you develop and run a learning activity for others.

• Tourism Impact Analysis

  The module provides insight into a range of impacts associated with tourism and tourists on the environment, economy and society. The module will introduce approaches to impact assessment and management utilised to measure and mitigate against negative impacts and increase positive ones. Students will learn about approaches to making tourism work for nature and communities, to generate profit and value beyond narrow economic notions, considering externalities and leakages.