Tourism and Events Management De Montfort University

Overview

The Tourism and Events Management course aims to give students a wide range of industry experience through guest speakers, trips and live projects with tourism and events providers. As a student on a DMU awarded programme you can access many of the resources available on DMU City Campus including the excellent Kimberlin Library. You also have the opportunity to top-up to a BA (Hons) Degree in Tourism and Events Mangement with one further year of study at the College.

What you'll learn

During your first year you will study personal and professional development, introduction to tourism, events management, customer service and marketing and sustainable tourism. In addition to this, you will have a study skills workshop and also a regular one to one tutorials with the programme lead.There will be a combination of modules, with some running year long and others operating on a two-semester system.

Building upon your knowledge from year one you will progress into the second year and complete a consultancy project and work placement. As part of this year, you will also study modules in human, physical and resource management, finance and business planning, event planning and delivery, niche tourism and tour operations.

Course & career progression

As a successful graduate from this programme, you will be eligible to progress directly onto the BA (Hons) Tourism and Events Management top-up year available with us and accredited by De Montfort University. You can also apply to other universities that run related top-up degrees’ subject to entry requirements.

Alternatively, you may wish to go directly into employments working in the tourism and events industry, this course will help you towards your career goals. Upon successful completion of the course, students will achieve an overall classification of pass, merit or distinction.