MSc Business with Hospitality and Tourism Management (with Advanced Practice in second year)

Northumbria University, Newcastle

This course develops broad business skills while also offering a specialist pathway in hospitality and tourism management that starts after the first semester. This option offers the opportunity to spend three months gaining all-important work experience and employability skills in a professional work setting. You may be able to extend this over more than one semester in cases where it is adjacent to a vacation period. Support is provided to help source opportunities and to perfect the applicant CV but ultimately the onus is on the student to secure the internship position. Specialist modules will cover topics such as responsible tourism, tour operations, and managing attractions and destinations. You’ll also explore the issues facing international hospitality organisations. Your studies will equip you for roles in the hospitality and tourism industries, which need well-qualified professionals, as well as in general management. This programme is also available as MSc Business with Hospitality and Tourism Management which lasts for 1 year. The course includes two modules that are focused on developing global management competencies. Topics during these modules include emotional intelligence, cultural awareness and the ability to work in diverse groups and teams, as well as project management and decision making. The course culminates in either a Masters dissertation or if you prefer, a consultancy project where you’ll tackle an issue faced by a real client. Throughout the course, there’s a focus on self-development and employability. Our graduates typically go into professional and graduate management positions and, by the end of the course, you’ll be well-equipped to follow them. Thanks to the specialist modules – Contemporary Hospitality Management, Tourists and Tourism, and the dissertation/consultancy project – you’ll have a particular edge in roles related to hospitality and tourism. Upon successfully completing your course, you may undertake further professional development and training through Professional Pathways programmes. These are offered to our graduates for free, from our partner, QA.

Newcastle Business School