Dynamic, fast paced and international, the hospitality industry is a thriving business sector offering you plenty of exciting career opportunities. This course is designed to prepare you for a management career in world-class hotels, country clubs, theme parks, leisure centres, exhibition venues or catering services. The course is designed around what the hospitality industry wants, ensuring that you are in the best possible position to go directly into challenging and rewarding positions within multinational organisations nationally or globally.

How will you learn?

You will learn through practical application and creatively delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and group work sessions.

• You’ll be taught by lecturers who have experiences in the industry, who’ll help you explore areas of marketing, human resources and operations management and how these are applied to industry practice.
• During your studies we’ll give you the opportunity to take a placement with a business, either in the UK or abroad. Previous students have undertaken placements in companies like Marriott, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Hilton, White Lodgings, De Vere and Park Plaza as well as Greenwich Country Club in Connecticut, Broken Sound Club in Florida and Ovolo in Hong Kong.

Placements

The course offers an optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad.

Our Placement Office works with national and international employers to ensure excellent work experience opportunities are available to you on placement courses as well as giving advice in areas such as interview skills and preparing CVs and covering letters.

Previous placement providers have included Blacksmiths Arms, Classic Lodges: Bagden Hall, Crowne Plaza, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Greenwich Country Club, Park Plaza Hotel London Waterloo, Radisson Blu Hotel, Red Carnation Hotels, Roxy Leisure Ltd, St. George’s Park Hilton Hotel, The Majestic Hotel - DoubleTree by Hilton, The Queen's Hotel, The Stanwich Club, Thwaites, White Lodgings / Courtyard San Antonio Airport hotel and York Marriott Hotel.

Your Career

Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Sales & Marketing Manager, International Account Executive, Sales Manager and Food & Beverage Manager in organisations including Wyndham Worldwide, Inventive Leisure, Optimum Medical, Radisson Hotel, Q Hotels, Marriott Hotel (US) and Mitchells and Butler.**

*Whilst this is a new course and therefore no graduate statistics for this specific course are available, 85-90% of graduates from courses in these subject areas at Huddersfield are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 17/18, UK domiciled graduates).