BA in Global Hospitality and Tourism Studies
Course Overview
The BA in Global Hospitality and Tourism Studies is a three-year UK Level 6 honours degree with part-time and accelerated routes, aligned with Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality, Institute of Travel and Tourism and Tourism Society themes. It is written for applicants targeting integrated graduate careers across hospitality and tourism.
By graduation, students hold a joint hospitality and tourism portfolio, a year-two placement in a hotel group, tourism board or destination operator, and a capstone that reads at the level of a junior integrated hospitality-tourism analyst brief.
Key Features
- Level 6 curriculum benchmarked against Institute of Hospitality and Institute of Travel and Tourism themes.
- Combined hospitality and tourism modules with integrated planning tasks.
- Year-two placement in a hotel group, tourism board or destination operator.
- Named programme tutor drawn from senior hospitality and tourism practice.
- Access to Institute of Hospitality and Institute of Travel and Tourism student pathways.
- Global case studies across the three-year programme.
- Final-year capstone in integrated hospitality-tourism strategy.
What You Will Learn
- Read a destination portfolio through both hospitality and tourism lenses.
- Coordinate hotel, restaurant, tour operator and DMO stakeholders.
- Design integrated hospitality-tourism packages across segments.
- Apply UK licensing, food safety, tourism and consumer protection rules.
- Manage cross-sector KPI reporting across hospitality and tourism.
- Lead responsible-tourism and community impact planning.
- Coach junior staff across hotel, DMO and tour operator contexts.
- Prepare a graduate-standard integrated hospitality-tourism report.
Who This Course Is For
- Aspiring integrated hospitality-tourism graduates.
- Working hotel and tourism staff seeking a graduate credential.
- Career changers moving into hospitality-tourism from adjacent sectors.
- International applicants seeking a UK BA covering both disciplines.
- Applicants targeting DMO, tourism board or hotel group careers.
Career Pathways
- Hospitality Operations Manager
- Tourism Manager
- Destination Marketing Manager
- Hospitality Business Consultant
- Hospitality Programme Manager
- Group Operations Manager
- Sustainable Tourism Consultant
The LSCAHM careers service partners with London hotel groups, tourism boards and destination operators to open placements and graduate interviews, and runs at least one industry-careers day each year focused on integrated hospitality-tourism careers.
Entry Requirements
- A-levels (or equivalent) at BBB or above, OR a UK Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Two academic references and a personal statement describing your interest in global hospitality and tourism studies.
- International applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation support from LSCAHM admissions.
Why Study at LSCAHM
The London School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management is a specialist division of Harold International College of London teaching in small, tutor-visible cohorts. Hospitality and tourism are read as interlocking disciplines, so integrated graduates learn to plan across the full guest and visitor journey.
Central London places luxury hotel groups, tourism boards and the Institute of Hospitality within a short tube ride of every classroom, giving live integrated briefs a strong regional anchor for every study mode.
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