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Hospitality, Tourism and Events Management

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Our dynamic range of hospitality, tourism and events management courses provide you with both the academic and practical skills needed to succeed in your future career. Our academics are experts in their fields and have invaluable industry knowledge, this directly informs what you learn about on the course.

Ranked 3rd in the UK and 20th in the world - Hospitality and Leisure Management Programmes, QS World University Rankings 2024

Shortlisted for Business School of the Year THE Awards 2023

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Top 3 reasons to study at Oxford Brookes

1

We have great links with industry, providing invaluable insights to enhance your learning experience.

2

You’ll have the chance to spend a year in a paid work placement. Past students have worked at some of the world’s most prestigious hospitality and events organisations, such as Marriott, Four Seasons, The Savoy, ITE Group and Oxford Global.

3

Oxford is the perfect place to study hospitality, tourism and events management. Oxford is a major global tourism destination and you will have opportunities to learn about the visitor experience and connect with hospitality, tourism and events organisations across the region.

Work placements

A key feature of all our undergraduate hospitality and events management courses is the opportunity to spend a year in industry through our supervised work experience or placement scheme. A year in industry is optional, though strongly encouraged, and takes place in the third year of a four-year course.

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Research

Researchers

We are recognised as a centre of excellence for research in international hospitality and tourism.

Our aim is to conduct rigorous research that:

  • advances academics' understanding of the management of national and international hospitality and tourism organisations and destinations,
  • addresses the needs of organisations and policy makers,
  • informs teaching and learning practices.

We encourage applications for research degrees that fit within topics related to these areas.

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Connecting education with enterprise

At Oxford Brookes Business School, we connect with businesses in a number of ways to enhance both the student experience and collaborate on research projects.

Business Challenge Week

The annual Business Challenge Week connects our postgraduate students with companies to work on a real-world challenge within their business.

Student stories

Martha Sandford

“The Events Management course covered content related to the events spaces being adaptable to the changing and post-pandemic world, in particular how the events industry transitioned into the virtual space. It also provided the freedom to explore all aspects of the events industry”

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Max Mason

"The Events Management course has set me up perfectly for my future career aspirations. The skills I have learned have prepared me for the world of work and I have developed my management and teamwork skills significantly"

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Julia Samuelsson

"Oxford is full of students and there are always things to do - you never get bored!"

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Marine Raymond

"Get ready for a nice time where you meet international people and make friends, because you will definitely do that"

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Zhihao Chen

"The UK is a world-leading country for education. As an International student, studying in the UK is a sensible choice, as we have fully developed research in social science and natural science… And you can have a diversity of choice in your field… I think the degrees issued by the UK universities are widely recognized by the world"

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Martyna Bylinska

"The most exciting thing that we have done so far in our course was meeting with the marketing team from Porsche so we could get to know their people as well as their markets, this way we could have very authentic information about the brand. It was so impressive!"

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Tingyu Gao

"The library and Brookes’s database have many essential and important materials like academic journals. The librarians are very supportive and they can always help me to find the materials I am looking for. Also, the module leaders here are also very supportive, they helped me to get used to the unfamiliar educational [system teaching styles]"

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Joshua Bae

"I have been learning a lot on my University English course. I think it is very helpful for me for improving my English and for adapting to the British education system"

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Wantanee Chansawad

"Pre-sessional English helped me with my listening and speech skills. The teachers especially helped with that - they were patient and helped me prepare for my next step"

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Zirui Lin

"I think the tutors are so talented and brilliant, they’re pretty familiar with their jobs and know how to teach the students to think and fulfil their dreams"

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