Higher Diploma in Tourism and Travel Management
Course Overview
The Higher Diploma in Tourism and Travel Management is a UK Level 5 qualification running 15 to 18 months, with structured articulation into a UK Bachelor's top-up. It is aligned with Institute of Travel & Tourism (ITT), Tourism Society and ABTA benchmarks for graduate-track tourism practice, and is written for working travel consultants, destination coordinators and tourism operations staff moving toward management.
By graduation, students are leading tourism operations, managing supplier and destination portfolios, running compliance and safety programmes, and completing a supervised workplace or capstone project set against a live tourism client brief.
Key Features
- Level 5 modules aligned with Institute of Travel & Tourism and Tourism Society graduate expectations.
- Applied workshops on itinerary architecture, supplier contracting and destination portfolio management.
- Case studies from London tour operators, inbound receptives and destination marketing organisations.
- Credit transfer confirmed in writing into a UK Bachelor's top-up.
- Named programme-tutor support from working tourism managers.
- Workplace or capstone project supervised by industry-active tutors.
What You Will Learn
- Build multi-destination itineraries with margin, service and quality standards.
- Negotiate supplier and DMC contracts across ground, hotel and experience providers.
- Apply ABTA and ATOL frameworks to travel operations.
- Design tourism marketing programmes across trade and consumer channels.
- Coordinate incident response and travel-disruption management.
- Manage tourism data across bookings, cancellations and refunds.
- Lead sustainable tourism initiatives with destination partners.
- Deliver a workplace or capstone project for a live tourism brief.
Who This Course Is For
- Travel consultants moving into tourism management or team-leader roles.
- Destination coordinators taking on portfolio responsibility.
- Tour operator staff professionalising their practice with a UK Level 5 credential.
- Working professionals moving from event coordinator or airline roles into tourism management.
- International practitioners seeking a UK Level 5 tourism qualification with articulation.
Career Pathways
- Tourism Manager
- Destination Marketing Manager
- Tour Operator
- Travel Consultant (Senior)
- Sustainable Tourism Consultant
- Inbound Tourism Manager
- Group Travel Manager
The LSCAHM careers service partners with London tour operators, destination marketing organisations and inbound receptives to open interviews for graduate-track tourism roles.
Entry Requirements
- A relevant Diploma (Level 4) in tourism or hospitality, an Advanced Diploma or comparable qualification.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C or equivalent.
- IELTS 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5) for non-native English speakers.
- One academic or professional reference.
- Working professionals moving from travel consultant or destination coordinator roles are welcomed.
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. LSCAHM reads culinary arts, hospitality management, tourism, events and food business as interlocking disciplines, which gives tourism managers a working understanding of the hospitality, food and event partners that make destinations real.
Central London places major inbound tour operators, the Institute of Travel & Tourism, ABTA, UKinbound and the Tourism Society within a short tube ride of every classroom, and three parallel study modes let working tourism practitioners complete the Higher Diploma without leaving employment.
Apply for Higher Diploma in Tourism and Travel Management
Complete a Higher Diploma at LSCAHM and articulate into a UK Bachelor's top-up in the same discipline. Credit transfer is confirmed at enrolment, admissions responds within one working day, and your programme tutor is named before induction. Enrol Now
