Course summary
MSc International Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management has been designed to provide you with the enhanced skills and knowledge which are necessary to support key decision-making within the international tourism, hospitality, and event industries. The programme is underpinned by a strong theoretical base across several contexts relevant to tourism, hospitality and event management in contemporary international environments. A distinctive feature of this program is that it offers you opportunities to interact with current industry practitioners and therefore enables a hands-on approach. This course is offered as a full-time one year route. The program is also offered as a full-time two-year route with Professional Practice or an Advanced Research Project. MSc International Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management with Extended Professional Practice (requires a minimum of 30 weeks of full-time work placement) MSc International Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management with Advanced Project (provides a second, taught year with a project-based module
Modules
Modules include: accounting and finance in the organisation; contemporary themes (tourism/hospitality/event management); decision making for managers; dissertation; international tourism marketing; live project; people management and development; research methods. Optional modules: crisis and risk management in events; ethical dimensions of tourism; project management; residential field trip; urban regeneration.
Assessment method
Assessment is based on presentations, reports, projects and a dissertation.
Entry requirements
An Honours degree (2.2 or above) or equivalent; applicants who do not meet the formal entry requirement but have considerable experience of working in the tourism industry may be accepted; minimum IELTS score of 6.5 or 6.0 plus completion of the university's 4-week pre-sessional English course, or equivalent is required for those whose 1st language is not English.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Fees for Postgraduate Study 2026/27:
https://www.herts.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/fee-information/how-much-are-my-fees
Provider information
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield
AL10 9AB