Program Overview

Tourism and Hospitality via Study Centres MSc

Overview

This master's course is designed to give you a head start in the tourism and hospitality sectors, which are part of one of the world’s largest industries. Our course blends a rigorous social science approach with the development of skills that are needed by, for example, restaurant entrepreneurs, resort coordinators, and hotel managers.

Why us?

• Features a work-based learning module, which will further enhance your employability

Course structure

We use a wide variety of teaching and learning methods which include lectures, seminars, study visits, and group work. These are supported by a range of guest speakers from diverse academic and industry backgrounds.

Compared to an undergraduate course, you'll find that this master's degree requires a higher level of independent working.

Course modules

• Tourism Concepts and Issues (30 credits)
  • Discover more about the complex and exciting world of tourism. Explore tourism as a social and cultural practice, tourist subjectivities, and the spatial dimension of tourism. Consider perspectives from different disciplines while sitting firmly within the social sciences.
• Research Methods for the Services Sector (30 credits)
  • Expand your knowledge of the key theories, methodologies and philosophies adopted in tourism, hospitality, aviation and events research. Develop your practical skills using quantitative data analysis software in workshops. Gain the critical foundations required to undertake your own independent research project.
• Hospitality Management Studies (30 credits)
  • Gain a solid introduction to hospitality as a global industry, covering key issues such as the complex structure of the industry in terms of ownership and employment practices. Address the industry’s impacts in terms of triple bottom line indicators (economic, socio-cultural, and environmental). Explore operational functions of hospitality such as food and beverage.
• Current Practices in the Visitor Economy (30 credits)
  • Gain inside knowledge of the current trends in the tourism, hospitality, aviation, and events industries. Develop your understanding of current practices in the industry with the opportunity to undertake a residential field trip in the UK. Critically reflect on the relationship between theory and practice in relation to the visitor economy.
• Tourism and Hospitality Major Project (60 credits)
  • Focus on an area of tourism or hospitality management of your choice and design and implement a research proposal. Set aims and objectives, select and implement research methods, conduct a literature review, collect empirical data, and analyse appropriately. Receive expert supervision and training in research methods, research design, and the interpretation of data and its relation to contextual material.

Entry requirements

Our typical offer is:

• Qualification | Minimum grade
  • a bachelor's degree (3 years) | 2:2 classification

If you already hold a postgraduate qualification, please see our Applying for additional postgraduate degrees Help and Advice article.

If you don't meet our standard entry requirements, you can take one of the foundation pathways at our partners ONCAMPUS Sunderland. Find out more information and whether your course is eligible on our ONCAMPUS page.

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Fees and finance

Please contact the Study Centre for information on the fees for this course.

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Career ready

The MSc Tourism and Hospitality equips you with the skills and knowledge to progress rapidly in tourism and hospitality management. Potential employment opportunities include hotel and resort management, attractions and museums, destination marketing agencies, tourism companies, restaurant and bar management, and catering management.

Another option is to set up your own tourism or hospitality business, drawing on the entrepreneurial resources that are available through our Careers and Employability Service. A master's degree will also open up opportunities in academic roles or further study towards a PhD.