Bachelor Of Hospitality and Tourism Management

Overview

If you love the idea of working overseas or helping people experience what Australia has to offer, a degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management can help you turn your passion for travel into a career almost anywhere in the world.

Learn about hospitality and tourism management, and how the industry is always changing. Explore sustainable tourism and discover how you can use data to help predict trends for a particular place or region.

At Murdoch, we help you learn by doing, so your assessments will be based on real life, rather than theory. You’ll learn business management principles, and be mentored through a range of projects as you learn to use research to make business decisions.

Three reasons to study Hospitality and Tourism Management at Murdoch

• Work in tourism to develop attractive destinations while working sustainably with people and the environment

• Develop management, negotiation and problem solving skills that will help you manage staff and organisations in any destination the world

• Learn from some of Western Australia’s top tourism experts who are actively involved in tourism research.

What you'll learn

Build the knowledge and skills you need to meet your career or study goals. Here are some of the things you’ll learn:

• Destination management

• Hospitality and tourism

• Sustainable tourism

• Tourism and hospitality law

• Business management

Your future career

You could work in a wide range of roles in travel and tourism, hospitality or retail industries. You could also work for government agencies, non-government organisations (NGOs) or even start your own business. Careers could include:

• Hospitality Manager

• Convention Services Manager

• Hotel Sales, Marketing and Public Relations Director

• Tour Operator

• Travel Retailer or Guide

English Requirements

You must meet a minimum standard in English to study at Murdoch, which for most courses can be demonstrated by providing evidence that you have completed Year 11 and 12 in Australia at any level.

If you are a domestic student, or through either English proficiency tests, university preparation courses, English language courses, previous tertiary study or vocational education.

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing.

Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.