Business and Hospitality Management
About Business and Hospitality Management
This degree combines essential business concepts with specialized knowledge in hospitality, emphasizing industry-relevant skills and commercial awareness. Students learn through contemporary case studies, guest speakers, simulations, and field visits, enabling a practical understanding of business and hospitality management. The curriculum also includes critical insight into sector dynamics, such as sustainability, service quality, and leadership in real-world settings.
Quick Facts
Course Overview
The Business and Hospitality Management course is designed to provide students with a strong foundation in business principles while developing expertise in hospitality operations and leadership. The curriculum blends academic theory with practical experience, including case studies, simulations, and field visits. Students gain a deep understanding of sector dynamics, sustainability, service quality, and leadership, preparing them for a wide range of roles in the hospitality industry. Throughout the program, students benefit from industry engagement, guest speakers, and employability support, ensuring they are job-ready upon graduation. The course also emphasizes commercial awareness and the ability to adapt to contemporary challenges in hospitality and business environments.
Modules
- Academic and Professional Skills: Builds critical thinking, communication, teamwork, and academic tools for success in university-level study.
- Hospitality, Tourism and Events Environment: Introduces sector structure, global practices, stakeholder impacts, and employability skills such as presentation and teamwork.
- Managing Quality in Hospitality, Tourism and Events: Focuses on quality frameworks, HR, operations scheduling, and service delivery via case studies and collaboration.
- Business Finance: Provides financial reporting and management basics, including budgeting, cost analysis, and decision-making.
- Customer Service Management for Tourism and Hospitality: Develops systems for delivering exceptional customer services in competitive contexts.
- Managing Human Resources: Covers HR strategies for multicultural environments and international business.
- Principles and Practice of Marketing: Focuses on marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, and promotional techniques.
- Hospitality Management: Delivers deeper operational insights into managing hospitality settings.
- Sustainability in Career Development: Teaches ethical, sustainable practices relevant to hospitality career paths. (ARU London)
- Live Project: A real-world project simulating event or hospitality initiatives to develop practical skills and industry readiness.
- Executing Business Strategy: Teaches strategic planning, analysis, and implementation through simulations and case studies.
- Undergraduate Major Project (Leadership in Practice): An individual research or applied business project focused on leadership and sector innovation.
- Contemporary Issues: Addresses modern challenges in hospitality and business environments.
Careers
Your lecturers bring real-world business and hospitality experience, ensuring curriculum relevance to industry demands. Networking is facilitated through guest speakers, and employability is enhanced via practical, sector-oriented learning. Students benefit from employability schemes and support in securing part-time roles.
Career Routes
Additional Information
Postgraduate options include MSc in Hospitality Management or an MBA with hospitality leadership emphasis.
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