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BA (Hons)

International Hospitality Management (Foundation Entry)

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

4 Years

Start

September 2024

UCAS Code

H234

Delivery

Campus Taught

Study Hospitality Foundation Entry with us. You'll gain a broad understanding of Tourism, Hospitality and Event management.

Don’t have the necessary formal qualifications to join the first year of a degree? Our Foundation Entry (Year 0) Hospitality is ideal. It’s unique and a great stepping-stone to continued degree study with us.

Our Hospitality programme is well suited if you are hoping to progress in a professional Hospitality role. At the early stages of the course, you’ll explore the hospitality industry. You'll look at its development from an international and national perspective. We'll teach you a range of transferable skills, which meet the ever-changing demands of this dynamic industry.

You will gain an introductory, constructive and critical understanding of the global and national hospitality industry throughout the course.

Why study with us

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in the North West for student satisfaction
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1st
in the UK for teaching on the course
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1st
in the UK for overall positivity
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Explore the hospitality industry and its development from an international and national perspective.
Learn from a team of internationally renowned academics. Our academics are research-active and publish in international journals and media outlets.
Explore current trends in hospitality, corporate hospitality and related business events.

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The course has offered me frequent opportunities to gain practical work experience. I have worked as an International Student Ambassador, giving advice to students from around the world and I am currently organising an event as part of my module assessment which is a large-scale Graduation Ball.

Romesa Kamran

International Hospitality Management, BA (Hons)

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What you'll do

Our Foundation entry students take part in a variety of local field visits in and around Preston.
In subsequent years you may also take part in both national and international field visits to, for example, The Lake District, Cyprus and Iceland (subject to change each year).
We have links with many Hospitality and Tourism organisations throughout the UK and overseas and you will benefit from these links with Industry.

Module overview

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Year 0

Compulsory modules

BMC003: Tourism, Hospitality and Events Themes in Action
BMC004: Service Excellence in the Visitor Economy
BMC005: Study Skills for Success
BMC006: Contemporary Business in Context

BMC003: Tourism, Hospitality and Events Themes in Action

Understand the key concepts and issues in Tourism, Hospitality and Events (T.H.E) from an interrelated, local, national and global perspective. The module will enable you to evaluate, compare and contrast the scope of the T.H.E industries whilst understanding the operational characteristics and the importance of each theme within a contemporary context. You'll develop an understanding of the major themes of Tourism, Hospitality and Events facilitated via field visits to T.H.E organisations in and around Preston.

BMC004: Service Excellence in the Visitor Economy

This module aims to introduce you to the theory, practices and techniques of effective customer service and the achievement of service excellence in Tourism, Hospitality and Events. You'll blend the module themes to develop a range of knowledge, skills and experiences relevant to customer service in order to work effectively in a variety of front-line customer-focused environments. Particular emphasis is placed on professionalism, personal and interpersonal abilities and the pragmatism of customer service in dynamic and customer-centric organisations.

BMC005: Study Skills for Success

This module aims to equip you with the study skills necessary at entry level for academic studies. You'll complete an academic literature review by means of study, facilitated by the module leader and support tutor(s) in order to enhance knowledge in your chosen area of interest. Completion of this module will prepare you to make effective use of learning opportunities in other modules of study and in the workplace.

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Year 1

Compulsory modules

BM1001: Creativity, Enterprise and Scholarship
BM1005: Business Landscape
BM1008: Global Hospitality Operations
BM1009: Professional Practice in Tourism, Hospitality and Events

BM1001: Creativity, Enterprise and Scholarship

Develop key skills in scholarship, research and learning technology to aid your academic studies. Using relevant themes as a basis, you'll develop oral, presentation, debating, academic writing and research skills. The module will equip you with a complete ‘toolkit’ of academic, personal and professional skills.

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Year 2

Compulsory modules

BM2010: Managing Experiences in Tourism, Hospitality and Events
BM2011: Professional Skills in the T.H.E Workplace
BM2012: Contemporary Issues in the Global Hospitality Industry

Optional modules

BM2015: Learning in Action
BM2016: Global Meetings, Industry and Business Events

BM2010: Managing Experiences in Tourism, Hospitality and Events

This module provides the underpinning knowledge and skills development opportunities related to the delivery of successful experience systems within Tourism, Hospitality and Event (THE) organisations. Significantly, you will acknowledge that managers, staff and customers together co-create experiences within individual service contexts. These contexts include physical, technological, informational, social and legal environments.

BM2011: Professional Skills in the T.H.E Workplace

This module will prepare you for the implications of working in hospitality and venue operations. You will develop an underpinning knowledge of legislation relating to, but not limited to: Health and Safety, Food hygiene, GDPR, Fire safety through the introduction of active and passive fire safety training, First aid, Human trafficking and Employment law protection (including race, ethnicity, and disability).

BM2016: Global Meetings, Industry and Business Events

Learn to articulate the global meetings industry's social, cultural, legal, and political impacts and economic importance. During this module, you'll develop an appreciation of a range of issues relating to the delivery of high-quality business events. As well as the exploration of current global trends relating to the management and operations of the largest sector of the Event Industry.

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Year 3

Compulsory modules

BM3014: Global Hospitality: The Future
BM3016: Independent Project for Tourism, Hospitality and Events
BM3017: Tourism, Hospitality and Events Graduate Innovation and Creativity

Optional modules

BM3012: Managing Service Quality
BM3019: Critical Insights into Dark Tourism and Difficult Heritage
BM3020: Applied Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Events
BM3139: International Fieldwork

BM3014: Global Hospitality: The Future

This module provides an opportunity to engage in a critical multi-disciplinary exploration of current and future hospitality themes, issues, and cases. Ensuring you understand real-world links between conceptual issues and empirical application.

BM3017: Tourism, Hospitality and Events Graduate Innovation and Creativity

The aim of this module is to consolidate managing yourself, managing others, and managing a business. You'll evaluate your own competencies in a range of areas associated with work within tourism, hospitality and event management. And explore the theory and practice of business strategy through innovation and creativity within a corporate setting. You'll engage with external organisations to help you to develop transferable skills and abilities to work on managerial strategies.

BM3019: Critical Insights into Dark Tourism and Difficult Heritage

This module allows you to study a niche, yet important component of global tourism. Dark tourism is the act of travel to sites of or places associated with death, disaster or difficult heritage. It provides an opportunity for you to become well-grounded and socially responsible managers of potential local, national, or international dark tourism sites, attractions, and exhibitions.

BM3020: Applied Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Events

During this module you'll work independently, to develop and demonstrate your academic skills and abilities. The module will normally be based on a topic related to your degree and will demonstrate the use of primary and secondary data collection techniques. You'll provide a logical rationale for the study, which will be supported by detailed methodology, findings, and analysis sections.

Course delivery

Following the pandemic, we have found that some courses benefit from a blended learning and teaching approach. Therefore, the majority of your teaching will be face-to-face on campus aside from a small amount of online teaching where we have learnt it works best.

85%Face-to-face

15%Online

Please note the delivery information for this course is accurate for the academic year 2023/24. The information displayed in this section may not yet accurately reflect how the course will be delivered in 2024/25 but this information will be updated by October 2023.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Future careers

Our strong links with hospitality employers ensures that our course is current - you’ll learn the exact skills and knowledge that these employers need.

Fees and funding

2023/24

First year£6,500 for the first year

Full-time£9,250 per year

International

First year£11,000 for the first year

Full-time£14,900 per year

2024/25

First year£9,250 for the first year

Full-time£9,250 per year

International

First year£16,400 for the first year

Full-time£16,500 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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Care Leaver Bursary
Our Care Leaver Bursary is for students who need extra support because they have been in care or are estranged from their parents.
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Estranged student support
Estranged Student Support Bursary is for students who need extra support because they are estranged from their parents.
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Dependants Bursary
Students with financially dependent children may be eligible for our Dependants Bursary as part of our financial support package. 
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Foundation Year Bursary
Our Foundation Year Bursary Scheme is for students starting a 4 or 5 year Undergraduate Degree programme.
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Accreditations

Our course has been accredited by the Institute of Hospitality, the professional body for managers and aspiring managers in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry worldwide.

You’ll learn through lectures, seminars and online classes. You will attend on average 12 hours of study per week.

Personal study also forms a big part of this course and you’ll be expected to work for about 36 hours a week in total.

You’ll work through different assessments - predominantly coursework. Assignments may take the form of essays, reports, presentations, poster presentations, development journals or portfolios. Some assessments are individual and others will involve group work.

We’ve strong links with employers including Marriott Hotels, Legacy Hotels, Heathcotes and Northcote. We also have links with the smaller companies in the region and offer help and assistance to a number of these.

There are a number of professional organisations that are our staff belong to, including:

Council for Hospitality Management Education(CHME)
Institute of Hospitality(IoH)
British Institute of Innkeeping (BII)
Tourism Society
International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education(I-CHRIE)
Meetings Industry Association(MIA)
Institute of Wines and Spirits (IWS)
Wine and Spirit Education Trust(WSET).

These associations help to develop our course design.

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International Hospitality Management (Foundation Entry)

Why study with us

Meet Romesa

What you'll do

Module overview

Year 0

BMC003: Tourism, Hospitality and Events Themes in Action

Course delivery

Visit us this autumn

View the course facilities

Future careers

Fees and funding

Course Specific Optional Costs

Course Specific Optional Costs

Scholarships and bursaries

Care Leaver Bursary

Estranged student support

Dependants Bursary

Foundation Year Bursary

Accreditations

Learning and assessment

Industry links

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