Languages with Tourism (Spanish) – BA (Honours)

At a glance

Get ahead in the tourism industry by significantly increasing your fluency in Spanish and one other language. You spend 18 months abroad with six months spent in a foreign university and 12 months working for a Spanish-speaking organisation developing your language skills and business experience.

Key points
• Take advantage of a demand for tourism graduates with language expertise.• Use our high-tech digital language labs to improve your language skills.
• Spend six months studying and twelve months working abroad in a Spanish-speaking organisation.
• Study Spanish plus an additional language from either French, German or Italian.

What is languages with tourism?
Language skills are highly valued within the global tourism industry. The ability to speak another language and knowledge of another culture, as well as the international business industry opens up a wide range of career options.

This course

Develop the tourism and language skills needed to take advantage of a growing demand for graduates with language expertise in the tourism industry. You prepare for a career in international tourism, where speaking more than one language is an important skill in a wide range of roles.

You study two languages consisting of Spanish with another foreign language. You can choose your additional language from a selection of • French • German • Italian. Italian is offered at beginner level only. Your non-language modules studied abroad will cover tourism topics, such as management in a global context.

You study two languages made up of either• two languages at post-A level/AS level
• or one at post-A level/AS level and one at post-GCSE or beginner level

Use the latest methods to quickly increase your language fluency in modern facilities designated for language students. This includes high-tech multimedia digital language laboratories and computer facilities, as well as social areas for informal learning. We encourage a strong student community across our language courses. This includes a peer mentoring programme and tandem language practice with native speaking language assistants. This helps to improve your conversation skills and helps you get to know other students on your course.

The tourism content of the course enables you to develop your knowledge of tourism as a global business and to understand the issues of sustainability and other contemporary challenges facing the industry.

As part of your course, you spend 18 months abroad. This includes six months at one of our partner universities. You will spend this study period in the country of your weaker language.

You also spend 12 months on placement in an organisation based in a Spanish-speaking country. If you have two A-Level languages you can discuss your options with your tutor and choose which language is spent on placement and which is spent as study abroad.

Your placement is a great opportunity to gain valuable international business experience. It helps you develop your skills and language ability, and significantly enhances your employability.

You can apply for placements with international companies such as Iberia Airlines, Spain or within tourism offices, tourist information and international visitor services.

Key areas of study
key areas include • Spanish language • your chosen additional language • language across cultures • tourism and development • business, society and culture • understanding tourism as a business • the world of tourism • sustainable tourism planning.