Hospitality Business Management – BSc (Honours)

At a glance

Gain a solid understanding of the hospitality industry as a whole with the flexibility to tailor your learning towards a specialism later in the course. Develop your management skills and knowledge before putting them to the test on placement with major industry players in the UK and overseas such as Marriott Hotels, Fairmont and Mitchells and Butlers.

Key points• Gain a broad awareness and understanding of the hospitality industry.
• Study on a course where students have an award-winning reputation in industry.
• Apply for placements with top hospitality providers such as Marriott Hotels.
• Benefit from extensive links with industry for placements and graduate jobs.

What is hospitality business management?The hospitality industry is competitive, fast growing and international, currently doing £68 billion of business a year in the UK alone. It covers a wide range of sectors and so a knowledge and understanding of the industry as a whole is an advantage.

Hospitality business management is about delivering an experience that meets expectations for the customer whilst making a profit. It covers areas including • deluxe hotels • restaurants • designer bars • food service management • specialist catering for sporting and other events • budget hotels • quick service retail restaurants • pubs and bars • nightclubs • running your own business • gastro pubs • private members clubs.

This course

Study on a course designed to meet the challenges of the £68 billion UK hospitality industry that has a reputation for producing high calibre graduates. Our students have been winners or finalists of The Young Guns Competition, an industry award that recognises students who have excelled during their placement, for the last ten years.

You study business and management, food and drink management and facilities management, with options to study conference and events management or culinary arts. This allows you to focus on specialist areas of the industry as well as having a broad understanding of the industry as a whole.

Throughout the course you develop your practical expertise using dedicated facilities in our professional kitchens. We are constantly developing these to ensure you develop the skills you need to work in the industry.

You are taught by lecturers with considerable industry experience internationally in a wide range of roles, including research and consultancy, training and development, food and beverage operations, hotel management, banqueting and conferencing.

In your first year, you develop your understanding of key principles in hospitality. You then choose whether to specialise in either food and beverage business or hospitality events business, in your second year.

In your third year, you get the opportunity to build on what you’ve learnt with a one year paid work placement. Placements are a valuable way of increasing your employability and starting salary. We help you find a suitable placement at a major hospitality provider such as • Walt Disney World Resort, Florida • The Old Toad, Rochester • Captains House Inn, Cape Cod • Sandals Grande Ocho Rios, Jamaica • Baltimore Marriott Waterfront • Marriott Beijing Great Wall.

The final year enables you to develop your ability to make strategic decisions and to critique practice.

Your learning involves taking part in lectures, seminars, workshops, projects, specialist sessions using our modern facilities at City Campus.

You can opt for the international version of this course which places greater emphasis on the global hospitality industry. To do this, you must take a work placement or a period of study abroad.

Key areas of study
Key areas include • corporate hospitality • hospitality events business • conference and meetings • international hospitality • business and management • food and drink management • facilities management • finance • marketing • operations management.