Unit type:Core

Your final year as an undergraduate will see many of the elements of your degree coming together as you prepare to leave University to enter a career or profession of your choice. In the present labour market it is absolutely essential that you are able to present your skills and knowledge in the best possible way to enhance your prospects of employment.

This is an individually centred module that will need the maximum degree of personal reflection and critical analysis of your views on the future for the industry.


This module will enable you to do this in the following ways:

Provide the in depth analytical knowledge needed to address key strategic developments in your chosen industry or sector to ensure that you can see what the future may look like for you and where you fit within that future direction.



Help you at job interviews by knowing how to contextualise your academic learning, and reflect and confirm that you possess the transferable skills necessary for your chosen industry/sector.

 

Unit type:Core

Service sector organisations must recognise the need to stay abreast of changes in the external environment and remain goal focused to ensure company objectives are met in both the short and long term. Increasing competition, dynamic customer demand and the pace of technology have led to a realisation that organisations need to flexible, agile and responsive to change. To this end, businesses need to identify and critically examine future developments in the service sector, and develop appropriate management strategies and actions to facilitate change.


Organisations that are risk adverse will take longer to proactively meet the changing external environment and this module seeks to develop an awareness of the organisational approach to risk by analysing appetite and maturity levels. It aligns with the nationally recognised need for undergraduates to have a far deeper understanding and greater knowledge of international issues and general awareness of the global agenda.

Unit type:Core

This module considers sustainable management systems in tourism and argues that an understanding of the principles encapsulated in the concept of ‘Triple bottom sustainability’ is paramount for sustainability of tourism businesses practices and in guiding long-term operational decisions in a changing and dynamic environment.

Critical concepts, policies and practices in tourism business sustainability, including financial, environmental and social practices, are reviewed within the Green Globe Destination Programme frameworks. This latter is critically assessed among other management frameworks to improve the sustainable practices in tourism organisations. Complementing and enhancing students’ knowledge of sustainable business and destination management built at level 4 and level 5, the module will explore businesses challenges and capabilities to devise long term operational strategies using a combination of empirical studies and theoretical constructs.

Unit type:Core

In today’s increasingly competitive environment a wide range of tourism organisations including SMEs use and deploy technology to create competitive advantages and increase the value of their provision. This trend is all too evident in the tourism industry as

local, regional and national organisations recognise the multitude of benefits derived from the using ICTs. The information is the lifeblood of tourism and the platforms which are now used to access and interact with the information change the way we engage with tourism. This module aims to build on from Level 4 and 5 knowledge of technology and tourism management and destination management.

Unit type:Core

The independent study offers students the opportunity to develop their analytical and critical skills in an extended analysis of a service sector topic, selected by the student and supervised by a member of the teaching team.