Course description
MSc International Hospitality & Event Management
Our International Hospitality and Event Management postgraduate course provides management education for existing managers and those with a relevant undergraduate education who want to develop a career in the dynamic area of international hospitality and event management.
Why study with us:
- We are affiliated to the Association of Tourism in Higher Education (ATHE)
- We have links with a wide range of varied employers across the service sector, both within the UK and overseas
- We have guest speakers from the hospitality and events sectors to enhance the course content by offering practical examples from the industry.
What you'll do:
- You’ll develop your ability to undertake independent, critical and substantive research and investigation within the area of hospitality and event management.
- You’ll be prepared for a career in hospitality and event management or a related occupation by developing professional and transferable skills.
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
Our graduates from this course as students often had an entrepreneurial passion and either planned to open their own hospitality start-up /events company, or already owned it and wanted to develop it.
The emphasis throughout this postgraduate course is on the development of a wide range of professional and managerial skills linked to key themes within the area of international hospitality and event management.
Training Course Content
Year 1
Compulsory Modules:
- BM4011: Tourism, Hospitality and Events: Principles and Practice
- BM4013: Global Tourism, Hospitality and Events Experience Economy
- BM4016: Tourism Hospitality Events Service Quality
Optional Modules:
- BM4014: Digital Tourism, Hospitality and Events
- BM4015: Special Interest Tourism
- BM4200: Research Project
- BM4219: Management Consultancy Project
BM4011: Tourism, Hospitality and Events: Principles and Practice
This module aims to allow you to determine and evaluate the current trends and contemporary debates and developments in international tourism, hospitality and event management and their implications for people, places, organisations and effective international business. The module applies the concepts and principles of service sector management within a diverse global arena. It further examines a range of practices from an international perspective to develop a broad understanding to the cultural complexity and challenge of working within the service industry.
BM4013: Global Tourism, Hospitality and Events Experience Economy
To provide you with a critical understanding of the concepts, applications and challenges relating to contemporary practices in the global hospitality experience economy. You will explore the relevance of sustainability to the tourism experience economy. This module seeks to provide you with a critical understanding of sustainable production and consumption of tourism experiences within the context of the contemporary environmental crisis.
BM4016: Tourism Hospitality Events Service Quality
This module will provide you with hospitality, tourism and events with an in-depth knowledge of integrated management issues within the service sector. The module considers the importance of customers, employees and service delivery quality to an effective service organisation.
BM4014: Digital Tourism, Hospitality and Events
This module is designed to offer you a critical overview of the current digital Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and innovation in Tourism, Hospitality and Event (THE) industries. By engaging with theories, concepts and practical real-world knowledge, you will be able to critically assess and evaluate the impact, benefits, and issues related to the use and management of contemporary digital information and communication technology systems.
BM4015: Special Interest Tourism
This module aims to introduce, theorize, and contextualise the growing phenomenon of special interest tourism. In doing so this module critically considers various forms of special interest tourism from both demand and supply perspectives.
BM4200: Research Project
This module aims to equip you to become a skilled and critical researcher in Business and Management by undertaking an academic or practice-oriented research project. It will provide you with the knowledge and understanding to plan and undertake an independent research project. And help you to understand the impact of business and management research on practice, people, organisations or policy, and your own practice.
BM4219: Management Consultancy Project
This module provides the opportunity for you to demonstrate your academic knowledge and experience/skills within a research project of rigorous critical analysis upon a specific management topic in depth. The topic chosen for the project will be based on an issue central to the theme of management, career employability and/or contemporary service sector analysis.
Course delivery details
Following the pandemic, we have found that some courses benefit from a blended learning and teaching approach. Therefore, the majority of your teaching will be face-to-face on campus aside from a small amount of online teaching where we have learnt it works best: 80% face-to-face, 20% online.