Tourism and Travel Management (Hons) London Metropolitan University

Overview

This Tourism and Travel Management (Hons) degree from London Metropolitan University has been developed to answer the tourism and travel industry's demand for specialised managers and planners. It's constantly evolving to include the most up-to-date issues and to prepare entrepreneurs for the challenging tourism business environment, including how to strategically manage operations even in a situation of crisis. 

Quick Facts:

• You’ll acquire knowledge in sustainable tourism management, cultural heritage and tourism-led regeneration and be faced with challenges of marketing British tourism destinations and managing visitors. You'll be given the opportunity to explore niche tourism products, advise companies on their social media strategy and create your own business plans.
• Within the international economy, tourism and travel is a major employer and sector providing unique development opportunities to less developed countries. It's also one of the few economic activities responsible for intensified contributions towards nature and cultural heritage protection and conservation.
• The teaching on this course utilises their London location with a series of case studies, including the international trade fair of World the Travel Market. We also have one of the most diverse international bodies of students, which allows us to teach a range of worldwide case studies based on students' own experiences and cultures.

Career opportunities:

• They believe that your university experience should be designed to enhance and support your professional life. They place as much emphasis on gaining skills relevant to the workplace as on learning the academic discipline that you’re studying.

This course is designed to offer an intellectually stimulating and distinctive programme that enables you to prepare for a satisfying career. Over the past 20 years, many of their graduates have developed rewarding careers in business, government and third sector tourism organisations, in roles such as:

• research

• consultancy

• tour operation

• destination managers and planning

• road, rail, sea and air transport management