Hospitality and Tourism Management and Human Resource Management

Hospitality and tourism management combined with human resource management is a degree that addresses two of the most people-intensive aspects of the service economy. Hospitality and tourism is a major global industry encompassing hotels, airlines, cruise lines, restaurants, events, visitor attractions and destination management, and its success depends almost entirely on the quality of human interaction it delivers. Human resource management provides the organisational tools to recruit, develop, motivate and retain the people who deliver those interactions, making it a natural pairing with an industry in which the employee experience directly shapes the customer experience.

At the University of Strathclyde, this four-year degree with a year abroad covers areas such as recruitment and selection, training and development and managing conflict at work, as the university's own description notes, alongside the full range of hospitality and tourism management competencies. You will study hotel and food service operations, tourism destination management, events management, marketing in tourism, strategic management and the international dimensions of hospitality and tourism alongside the core HRM topics of employment relations, performance management, learning and development, diversity and inclusion and the legal framework of employment. The year abroad gives you international experience in a genuinely global industry.

The combination of hospitality and tourism knowledge with human resource management expertise is particularly relevant to management roles in the industry, where operational competence and people management capabilities are both required from the earliest stages of a management career.

Graduates go on to careers in hotel management, event management, tourism development, HR management in hospitality organisations, airline and airport management, and a range of other roles across the service sector. Further study in hospitality management, HRM or business administration is also a common route.