Business and Tourism Management

Business and tourism management is a programme designed for those who want to work in one of the world's largest and most dynamic industries with the commercial skills to do so effectively. Tourism is a global economic force, generating substantial revenue, supporting millions of jobs, and shaping the cultures, environments, and communities of destinations around the world. Managing tourism businesses and destinations well requires both the operational and strategic knowledge of general management and the specific understanding of how tourism works as an industry, how visitors make decisions, and how the impacts of tourism can be managed sustainably.

This three-year, full-time programme at Anglia Ruskin gives you a thorough grounding in business management principles alongside specialist knowledge of the tourism sector. You will study marketing, operations, finance, human resources, and strategy alongside tourism-specific topics including destination management, visitor experience, sustainable tourism, and the hospitality and events dimensions of the broader tourism economy. The combination equips you to work in the management of hotels, tour operators, destinations, heritage sites, events companies, and tourism policy organisations.

Graduates pursue careers across the tourism and hospitality sector, in roles such as destination manager, tourism development officer, hotel and resort manager, visitor experience manager, events coordinator, and tourism marketing specialist. Many also move into the travel trade, airlines, heritage and cultural tourism, and the growing field of sustainable and responsible tourism management. The business management skills developed alongside the tourism specialism are also transferable into broader commercial and management roles.

Further study in tourism management, hospitality management, or business is a natural extension for those who wish to develop specialist expertise or pursue senior management careers in the sector.