International Tourism Management

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 10.4 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
StudyQA ranking:3227 Duration:36 months

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Description

This course produces graduates who can work effectively in the exciting, challenging field of international tourism.

It’ll give you the qualities, skills and knowledge to make an immediate impact on employers and develop a successful career in the world's largest growth sector.

In the second year you’ll be able to spend all or half the academic year on a study placement with one of our partner institutions in Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden or the Netherlands, learning tourism and language-related subjects. You’ll usually be taught in English, but if your language skills are good enough you can study in the local language.

Alternatively, you’ll be able to undertake a work placement for half of the second year and gain valuable employment experience.

Why Solent?

  • Opportunities to study abroad for a full or half academic year or undertake a work placement and gain an international perspective; we currently offer study placements in over ten different countries.
  • Chance to complement your tourism studies with a foreign language.

Career potential

This course is industry-focused, leading to careers in the growing UK and international overseas tourism industry. Working in tourism is an exciting option if you have a passion for travel and creating a memorable and inspiring experience for tourists. You may prepare travel itineraries, lead tour parties or even work with local attractions and hotels. Jobs include tour operators, reservation consultants, local authority tourism officers and a variety of management positions.

Suitable roles for graduates include:

  • International tourism marketing
  • Customer services
  • Public sector tourism
  • Visitor management
  • Heritage attractions management
  • International hospitality
  • Global cruise industry
  • Tourism research
  • International tour operation
  • Resort management

Links with industry

Industry professionals have had input into the course content and development, ensuring it offers a blend of theory and practice and will help develop essential employment skills. In addition, studying abroad or undertaking work experience can enhance your career prospects and help you establish important contacts in the tourism industry.

We also provide a programme of guest speakers, with a particular focus on contemporary issues in the industry.

Transferable skills

Through seminars and assessed activities you’ll develop your interpersonal skills, organisation, cross-cultural communication, problem-solving and leadership, as well as skills in management, and IT.

Further study

Students can progress on to further postgraduate study in tourism, cruise and business and management related disciplines.

Examples of employment obtained by recent graduates

Recent graduate destinations include Ocean World Travel and international tour operator TUI.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee
  • GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
  • GBP 10380 Year (Non-EEA)
Start date September 2015 Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time

Course Content

Year one

  • Introduction to Tourism
  • World Tourism Perspectives
  • Leisure Marketing
  • Language unit
  • Academic and Employability Skills
  • Financial Planning and Reporting
  • Introduction to Organisational Behaviour in Leisure Services.

Year two

  • Option one:
    • International Tourism Research Skills
    • Study Placement Abroad (whole academic year, five units).
  • Option two:
    • International Tourism Research Skills
    • Cruise Operations Impacts
    • The Management of Visitor Attractions
    • Work Placement (half academic year, three units).
  • Option three:
    • International Tourism Research Skills
    • Cruise Operations Impacts
    • The Management of Visitor Attractions
    • Half-year Study Placement Abroad.

Year three

  • Cross-Cultural Management or International Marketing for Travel and Tourism
  • Contemporary Issues in Tourism
  • Natural and Cultural Heritage Tourism Management
  • Dissertation
  • One option, for example:
    • Tourism in Developing Countries
    • Tourism and the Media
    • Languages.

(Our courses are regularly reviewed so the final module list may be slightly different from the one shown here.)

Teaching, learning and assessment

The course is taught through a variety of teaching and learning methods including lectures, seminars and workshops.

Work experience

If you opt for the second-year work placement, our international placement office and tutors will help you plan and organise a placement in the tourism industry, either abroad or in the UK.

Assessment

Reports, exams, projects, presentations, case studies, a photo essay, a reflective journal, posters and a dissertation or literature-based research.

Study abroad

You'll have the opportunity to spend between three months and a year of your course studying abroad at one of our EU partner universities, as part of the Erasmus programme.

If you're a non-UK student studying at an EU university, the Erasmus programme gives you the chance to come to the UK and study international tourism management units at Solent for between three months and a full academic year.

University students from non-EU countries can also spend a semester or an academic year studying at Solent University through our Study Abroad programme.

Web-based learning

Solent’s virtual learning environment (VLE) provides quick online access to assignments, lecture notes, suggested reading and other course information.

For students studying abroad in the second year, the International Tourism Research Skills unit is delivered online through the VLE.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6 TOEFL iBT® test : 80

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

take an IELTS test. More About IELTS

Requirements

  • 240 points from minimum two completed A-levels or equivalent qualifications.
  • Grade C or above in GCSE English and mathematics or equivalent

English language requirements

Applicants who do not have English as their first language will be required to demonstrate an approved level of proficiency in the use of the English language. The agreed minimum requirements for this course are:

  • IELTS minimum 6.0 (5.5 in writing)
  • TOEF IBT 80 (19 in writing)
  • Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic 56 (51 in writing)
  • or equivalent.

Qualifications are checked before enrolment and international students must bring their original certificates or certified copies, when coming to study at the university.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship

    "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

  • Access Bursary

    Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

  • Alumni Bursary

    Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Southampton Solent University.

Funding

National Scholarship Programme

The primary purpose of our National Scholarship Programme is to benefit individual students that come from disadvantaged backgrounds as they enter higher education. This scheme is available to new home and EU under graduate students starting a programme of study with us in 2014-15, who have no previous experience of studying for an undergraduate award and whose tuition fees are over £6,000 for the year. To be eligible to be considered for a National Scholarship, applicants will need to meet both the Government national eligibility criteria and the additional University eligibility criteria, as detailed below.
Government national eligibility criteria:

  • Students will need to have a declared household income of £25,000 or less.

University eligibility criteria will include one or more of the following:

  • Enrolment on an undergraduate degree programme, foundation level of an undergraduate degree programme, HNC or other equivalent course
  • Home address (this is your address prior to joining university) within a low participation neighbourhood
  • Being in the care of a local authority for a minimum of 52 consecutive weeks immediately prior to beginning a programme of study at the University, and aged 24 or under.

Please see further information about the National Scholarship Programme here: http://www.solent.ac.uk/student-life/welfare/funding/undergraduate-funding/national-scholarship-programme.aspx

High Performance Academy Scholarship

Sport Solent and Southampton Solent University have developed the High Performance Academy (HPA) to help students who are studying at the University, whilst competing on the national and international stage. The programme provides financial and mentoring support to assist athletes in reaching their sporting potential whilst pursuing higher education.
Minimum requirements for entry on the Sport Solent High Performance Academy
Full-time or part-time undergraduate, or post-graduate student
Applicants must have an outstanding ability in a particular sport
Applicants must compete at a semi-professional level or show strong evidence of the potential to do so
The High Performance Academy programme offers different levels of support to student athletes based on their sporting talent and potential. There are three categories that a successful applicant can fall under:

  • Performance squad
  • Development squad
  • High Performance squad

How to apply

To apply, please fill out the application form below and email it back to the High Performance Academy

Scholarships for oversears students

International Scholarships Scheme 2014
We are pleased to offer some scholarships to students applying from overseas.
Who can apply?

You can apply if:
you are applying for a full-time course at Southampton Solent University for 2014 entry, and
you are from one of the following areas: Africa, Bangladesh, Japan, North and South America, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey and you are not currently studying or residing in the UK, and you are a self-funded, full fee student (not applicable to Erasmus/Study Abroad students).

How do I apply?

Simply complete the Overseas Scholarships Application form and return it to our International Office, once you have received an offer from us.

The scholarship form is accessible at:

http://www.solent.ac.uk/international/fees-scholarships/overseas-scholarships.aspx

What will happen next?

You will need to accept our unconditional offer and pay the required deposit.
We will then send you the Scholarship Award of £1,000 towards your tuition fee payment for your first year of study.

Sport Scholarships

Sport Solent continues to provide and support top level athletes that strive for academic success alongside their sporting careers. Southampton Solent University offers the opportunity for selected athletes to access a sporting scholarship in many disciplines.
Please note: the Sport Solent scholarship is available for athletes who excel in basketball and cricket.
If you compete at a national and/or international level in another sport, and want to get financial support and mentoring from Southampton Solent University, you can apply for the High Performance Academy|.
The Sport Solent scholarship
Academic fees are covered at 100% or 50% by the university for each successful applicant:
Scholarship fees Undergraduate Postgraduate
Year 1: 100% Year 1: 100%
Year 2: 50% Year 2: 50%
Year 3: 50% N/A
Benefits

  • Personal mentor
  • One-to-one strength and conditioning training
  • Free use of Sport Solent facilities
  • Free membership to Team Solent sports clubs, providing sports insurance
  • High performance support workshops and lectures
  • Additional funding to compete in international sporting events
  • Flexible timetables
  • Physiotherapy treatments.

To apply

Applicants must fill out the registration form and email to sports.scholarship@solent.ac.uk. The registration form can be accessible through the link below:
http://www.solent.ac.uk/sport/scholarships/apply-for-a-scholarship.aspx

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