About this Course
Programme Objectives
- The MSc Tourism and Hospitality programme has been designed to facilitate a combination of real-world experience and critical reflection through fieldwork and classroom-based activities.
- The programme applies a social scientific approach to both tourism and hospitality studies through a focus on the contexts of globalisation,commercialisation and consumption.
- A particular strength of the programme is the consideration of the linkages between the travel, tourism and hospitality industries in relation to organisation and management, as well as in providing satisfactory experiences to consumers.
Career Opportunities
Past students from University of Sunderland tourism programmes have gone on to a range of management careers including attractions, museums and destination marketing.
Students may also choose to set up a tourist or hospitality business or go to research and lecturing.
Module Descriptions
International Tourism Development
Upon successful completion of this module, students will have demonstrated:
- A critical understanding of the key concepts and theories associated with international tourism development;
- A critical awareness of the roles played by the various stakeholders in the international tourism development process
- The ability to critically appraise the processes and practices of international tourism development
- The ability to assess the policies and strategies of international tourism organizations
- The ability to critically evaluate of the implementation of tourism development policies and strategies
Hospitality Management Studies
Upon successful completion of this module, students will have demonstrated:
- An advanced knowledge of the operation of the hospitality industry
- A knowledge of the characteristics of hospitality production and consumption
- A knowledge of the structure, components and evolution of hospitality supply and demand
- Critically appraise hospitality development and management case-studies
Critical Tourism Theory and Methods
Upon successful completion of this module, students will have demonstrated:
- Expert knowledge and a critical understanding of qualitative and quantitative methodological techniques in tourism analysis
- A critical awareness of new theoretical developments in tourism research
- The ability to plan a tourism research proposal
Upon successful completion of this module, students will have:
- Demonstrated an advance knowledge of current issues debates and practices in Tourism, Hospitality and Events
- Critically evaluated current research and scholarship relating to tourism, hospitality and events
- Critically evaluate the strategic challenges facing events, hospitality and tourism organizations
Upon successful completion of this module students will have demonstrated:
- Knowledge of research design for sustained independent empirical work
- Advanced knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of the need for and potential of the research undertaken
- Analyse complex data sets in order to explain real-world tourism and hospitality production and consumption
- Report and reflect on a research project in order to make conclusions and recommendations for both operations and further research
Applicants must be of age 18 and above and a good Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
English Language Requirements
Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in the English language. If the applicant does not meet the English requirement, the applicant is required to achieve a minimum of band of 6.0 in the IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
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Course Info
- Course Provider Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS)
- Course Category Other
- Course Price n/a
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