Business Management and Tourism with Placement Year

Study BA (Hons) Business Management and Tourism with Placement Year BA (Hons) and become one of the Want to experience what Derby has to offer? Join us at our next Open Day Explore current trends in tourism to be able to critique current issues and propose business solutions for the future. You’ll analyse the concepts and characteristics of tourism in relation to contemporary trends in destination management, niche tourism products, and the wider business environment.

You’ll study a wide range of business issues across tourism, marketing, supply chain, finance and enterprise to gain a thorough understanding of key business issues. You’ll have the opportunity to take a placement year to put the skills you’ve learned into practice in a real-world environment. We'll support you to find your placement and throughout your year in industry.

Placements allow you to gain valuable experience to add to your CV, make industry contacts and help you to narrow down what kind of role you may be interested in after graduation. We place great emphasis on real-world learning throughout the degree. You’ll make the links between theoretical business frameworks and the practicalities of the real business world with support from our academic team, who have a broad range of experience across key business areas.