MA Tourism and Hospitality Management Development Programmes
Welcome to our Masters Programmes in Tourism and Leisure and Tourism and Hospitality Management Development.
With tourism and hospitality now accounting for almost 11% of world gross domestic product, this growth has fuelled the need for advanced management studies. Responding to this trend, the Centre For Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies has operated an MA in Tourism and Leisure Management programme for over ten years, a well established Masters Programme with over 190 students graduating.
Our Masters Programmes are ‘unique’ (Professor David Botterill, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, External Examiner, 2004), insomuch that they focus on ‘management development’ for both graduates and professionals in tourism and hospitality.
All of our modules are Masters-level modules, that is to say their study is undertaken at a more advanced level and depth with more emphasis on independence of both thought and study. Greater independence in study is expected than in undergraduate study.
Please note that the hospitality programme does not include modules pertaining to food and beverage operations, food production or food service management.
After students graduate, they will have developed skills that will assist them in higher level management in tourism and hospitality including:
- Displaying a mastery of a complex and specialised area of knowledge and skills
- Employ advanced skills to conduct research
- Development of decision making skills
- Link theory and analysis with methodology and technique
- Work independently
Many of our students have continued to, or gone on to, work at a higher management level in tourism and hospitality, please see our graduates section for some examples.
Steve Burns
Programme Leader
Steve Burns
Programme Leader
