FdA Tourism Management

2 years full time or 3 years part time

Venue

Knightstone Campus

This degree level course provides a total package of professional
knowledge and skills giving you a passport to the fastest growing
industry in the world today.

This course has been designed with employability in mind enabling you to engage with the issues and developments affecting the tourism industry. Its vocational focus allows you to spend a significant amount of time within the workplace in order for you to gain experience, manage a variety of small projects and develop a range of skills. A vocational approach is underpinned by academic theory and industry standards that allow you to assess situations make comparative judgments and suggest a range of alternative approaches.

Why choose this course

Tourism is worth over £80bn to the national economy. The industry is
a dynamic and varied environment to work in, with employment
opportunities for customer focused and commercially aware individuals. This course will provide you with the transferable skills and experience to work in a variety of careers in this vibrant sector.

Course structure and content

Over the two-year programme you will study four modules each year.

Year one

  • Understanding tourism geographies
  • Work-based research
  • Investigating attractions management
  • The business of tourism.

Year two

  • Marketing and business planning
  • Investigating people and leadership within the work place
  • Work-based learning
  • Sustainable tourism.

The course can include a period of working and studying abroad which will help you put an international perspective to tourism and its related issues.

The course also includes the study of how the tourism industry has adopted modern business techniques and how technological developments are continually changing the industry.

The work placement is an essential feature of this course. Former students have secured work placements with a number of key companies in the tourism sector including: Bristol International Airport, The National Trust, Easyjet, North Somerset Council (Tourism Development Department) and the Roman Baths in Bath.

Delivery method

  • Formal lectures
  • Group seminars
  • Practical workshops
  • Visiting speakers from the tourism industry.

In partnerhip with

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Entry Requirements

 

You will need a UCAS tariff of 200 UCAS points with at least 160 coming from a Level 3 Qualification (for example A Levels or BTEC National / Extended Diploma). Preferably 80 points should come from a related subject.

 

Progression

  • You will have the opportunity to apply to progress to the Bath Spa Top-up year of the BA (Hons) Business (Tourism Management) on successful completion of this course
  • Apply to complete the Top-up at another university
  • Enter employment within the tourism industry.

How to apply

Full-time courses

Full-time course: complete a UCAS online application form and submit it electronically (ucas.com). The UCAS website provides detailed information about making your application, so if you need any further details please visit their site.

  1. Fill in a University and College Admissions Service (UCAS) application form online following UCAS guidelines and submit it through the website, ucas.com. The UCAS website gives lots of information about making your application, so you can find more details there.
  2. We will get your application through UCAS and may invite you to an interview or audition with a course tutor.
  3. We will let UCAS know what we decide about your application as soon as possible after your interview.
  4. UCAS will let you know what we decide via UCAS track so login regularly. Remember to apply for your funding at direct.gov.uk/studentfinance. More information about the tariff can be found at ucas.ac.uk/students/ucas_tariff.

UCAS Codes

Institution Code: B20

Course Code: N840

Campus Code: C