Business and International Tourism Management (with a Professional Placement Year)

UCAS code: 8N1N

Here's what University of Chester says about its Business and International Tourism Management (with a Professional Placement Year) course.

Explore one of the world’s leading, fast-moving and dynamic industries at one of the UK’s top tourism universities. This course is part of the hospitality, event management and tourism subject area where the University of Chester is rated 4th in the UK in the Guardian League Table 2025.

We bring Business and Management to life with inspiring and real experiences. It’s a really competitive world in business today. We will equip you with much more than business knowledge. Your future employers are seeking skills that we develop with you. This means you leave us with experiences that should give you an edge at interview and in the workplace. We develop outstanding business professionals so that you can progress to a great career.

In your International Tourism Management modules you will learn from industry experts and academics how places around the world benefit from and manage tourism, how it is marketed and how tourism businesses operate.

Our course provides you with a broad understanding of international tourism in your first year before exploring more specialist topics in your second and third years when you will also expand upon your own areas of particular interest by selecting optional modules that connect tourism with aspects of events management, marketing or business.

You will have a five-week tourism work placement in your second year and the chance to carry out an individual tourism management project that you have designed yourself in third year. These opportunities will help you stand-out when you apply for the job that will kick-start your tourism career. We work closely with the Tourism Management Institute and our industry partners to make sure that the programme is always up to date and gives you the skills that you will need for future success.

The course is accredited by the Tourism Management Institute. We work closely with it and our industry partners to make sure that our modules are always up to date and give you the skills that you will need for future success..

For the latest example of curriculum availability on this course, please refer to the University of Chester's Website.

There will be a broad range of assessment methods used throughout the Business and International Tourism Management programme so that students are exposed to the different types of task they might encounter in the workplace.

These will include coursework in the form of reports, portfolios of work, presentations (such as pitches and debates, peer assessment, reflective reviews, evaluation reports. In some modules students will encounter class tests and practical assessments. We continuously review the assessment methods used in order that they adequately prepare students for graduate level employment.