BA in Tourism Management
Course Overview
The BA in Tourism Management is a full honours undergraduate degree running over 36 months, with top-up routes available for LSTITM Higher Diploma holders. It is aligned with the Tourism Society, Institute of Travel and Tourism (ITT) and Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) reference standards for graduate tourism practice.
By graduation, students can enter graduate schemes at tour operators, DMOs and airline groups equipped with placement experience, applied research and industry-referenced commercial knowledge.
Assessment on the BA in Tourism Management spans coursework, examinations, a supervised placement portfolio and a full honours dissertation. Placement year is undertaken with LSTITM partner tourism organisations across London and the wider UK sector, and dissertation topics are agreed early so students can align their placement experience with their eventual research question.
Key Features
- Delivered on-campus in London, online and via distance learning
- Curriculum aligned with Tourism Society, ITT and CIM standards
- Full honours BA including a placement year and dissertation module
- Live seminars on tourism strategy, revenue and destination business
- Case studies from UK tour operators, airline groups and DMOs
- Applied research methods and consultancy-style capstone project
- Career service for graduate scheme applications and interviews
- Placement year hosted with LSTITM partner tourism organisations
- Full honours dissertation supervised by LSTITM academic faculty
What You Will Learn
- Tourism strategy across three-year and one-year business planning
- Revenue management, yield and dynamic pricing for tourism operators
- Destination business models including DMO funding and governance
- Applied research methods for tourism dissertations and briefs
- Financial statement literacy across tour operators and airlines
- Marketing, CRM and loyalty strategy at graduate level
- Sustainability and Net Zero programme design for tourism
- Ethics, governance and duty of care at business-planning level
- Independent research design including literature review and methodology chapters
- Academic writing at honours level with dissertation-quality citation practice
- Consultancy-style capstone report authoring for a real UK tourism brief
Who This Course Is For
- A-Level, IB or overseas equivalent completers targeting tourism careers
- Higher Diploma holders seeking a full honours top-up
- International learners entering UK graduate tourism programmes
- Career changers moving into a graduate-track tourism degree
- Aspiring tour operator, DMO and airline group graduate hires
Career Pathways
- Destination Manager (Graduate)
- Tourism Product Manager
- Tourism Marketing Manager (Graduate)
- Tourism Development Officer (Graduate)
- Tourism Research Analyst
- Tour Operator Manager (Graduate Scheme)
- Tourism Board Coordinator (Senior)
LSTITM's careers service supports BA students throughout their placement year and graduate scheme applications with CV audits, mock assessment centres and warm introductions to London operators, boards and airline partners.
BA in Tourism Management students also benefit from an annual placement showcase where returning placement-year students present their year in industry to first and second-year students. Working line managers from UK partner tourism organisations attend the showcase and often recruit final-year students directly from these presentations. Distance-learning students join by video and receive placement portfolios shared under agreement. Past graduates consistently cite the placement showcase as the feature that most helped them convert placement experience into a graduate scheme offer.
Entry Requirements
- A-Levels (BBC or above) or IB (26+ points) or overseas equivalents
- A completed Higher Diploma or Advanced Diploma for top-up routes
- IELTS 6.0 overall (no band under 5.5) or equivalent English proficiency
- Personal statement outlining career objectives in the tourism and travel sector
- Two academic or professional references
Applicants who narrowly miss the IELTS 6.0 threshold can take LSTITM's pre-sessional English support before joining the BA in Tourism Management, and international applicants receive a personal admissions reply within three working days. Higher Diploma holders should note that top-up routes credit prior study directly into the degree so the BA in Tourism Management can be completed in twelve to fifteen months on the top-up track.
Why Study at LSTITM
LSTITM is the London School of Tourism and International Travel Management, a specialist division of Harold International College of London. Every LSTITM programme is aligned with the Tourism Society, ITT, ABTA, CIM and UKHospitality reference frameworks for credible, industry-referenced study.
Our curriculum is written by former destination directors, revenue leads and tourism consultants and delivered across three flexible modes with dedicated career support for every graduate.
Bachelor graduates from LSTITM leave with a full honours degree, a placement year on their CV, a dissertation on record and a warm network across UK tourism boards, tour operators, OTAs and airline groups. This combination is deliberately designed to compete on level terms with graduates of traditional UK tourism universities, whose degrees rarely include such an integrated placement plus dissertation model.
Apply for BA in Tourism Management
Applications are open now for the next intake of the BA in Tourism Management. Apply for your full LSTITM undergraduate tourism degree and step into a graduate-ready tourism management career. Termly intakes are open across on-campus, online and distance-learning modes and the LSTITM admissions team responds to every application within three working days. Applications for the placement-year cohort should be submitted before the published cut-off to guarantee a placement match with a UK tourism partner. Enrol Now.
