Tourism Management BSc (Hons)

Our Tourism Management degree is designed to get under the skin of the tourism industry by examining its various operational components. These include accommodation, transport and attraction sectors, in addition to examining the policy and planning frameworks that facilitate tourism development.

It also demonstrates how underpinning theories can be applied by tourism organisations in real business settings. This is undertaken both through a taught and practical based approach, which includes industry visits and guest speakers, national and international fieldwork and practical case studies.

You will be taught by experienced academics and industry professionals, who have proven expertise in the subject and have been trained to provide high quality support. 

You will gain a truly interdisciplinary outlook on tourism management as the degree curriculum embeds knowledge from a variety of related subjects, including geography, business management and marketing, and events management.

The degree seeks to actively engage with local stakeholders and some key elements of its curriculum focus on tourism development in the city of Liverpool and the wider region.

The curriculum is research-driven and business practice-based; this provides you with up-to-date and first-hand tourism experience which can represent a key advantage in the highly competitive job market.

Liverpool is an ideal place to study tourism management as the city is home to a number of key tourist attractions in the UK, such as the Royal Albert Dock and waterfront, Tate Liverpool, Premier League football, National Museums Liverpool and the Beatles legacy.

The city’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2008, has also contributed to continued growth of the city’s tourism sector. Therefore, due to the dynamic nature of the city’s tourism industry, there are constant opportunities to explore and investigate contemporary aspects of an international tourism destination on your doorstep.  

A Placement Year option is available for this course. Undertaking a placement year as part of your degree programme offers you the opportunity to gain valuable work experience alongside your studies.

Course structure

Teaching on this degree is structured into lectures, where all students are taught together, seminars of smaller groups of around 20-25 students, and tutorials which typically have no more than 10 students. There are also a number of fieldtrips each year, as well as the opportunity to have a one-to-one meeting with your tutor each week.

In your first year there are approximately 12 teaching hours each week, which reduces to approximately 10 teaching hours in your second and third years. On top of teaching hours, you are also expected to spend a number of hours studying independently each week, as well as group study to prepare for any group assessments you may have.

Careers

The expansion of the global tourism industry means there will continue to be a need for trained graduates in this field.

Graduates in Tourism are well suited to a wide variety of careers within the industry, including tourism marketing, arts/heritage/attractions management, tour operations, tourism product development, public sector tourism, urban regeneration, resort/destination management, transportation, or hotel and hospitality management. Many of our graduates have found employment in the tourism industry in Liverpool.

In addition, studying Tourism develops valuable transferable skills, which prepare students for many graduate jobs and for other careers in both the private and public sectors.

There are also increasing opportunities to study Tourism at postgraduate level and an increasing number of our students go on to train to be teachers of tourism and leisure.