BA (Hons) in Event Management with Hospitality

This course seeks to provide you with the industry know-how to develop your career in hospitality with a specific focus on event hospitality. You will develop key hospitality management skills, coupled with a complementary awareness of events provision and management.

Why Choose This Course?

This course is aimed at those who want to develop a career in the planning and management of events, with a particular focus on hospitality.

Course Syllabus:

As part of the degree, we will provide all of our students with direct, practical experience. It will certainly involve real-life event management experience during your studies. However, it could also include the opportunity to take a work placement that will significantly enhance your CV and employment prospects.

• Business Environment
• Business Communication Skills for Marketing
• Business Idea Generation
• Marketing Essentials
• Data Analytics and Understanding ‘Big Data’
• Creating Events
• Customer Service Excellence
• Engaging and Leading People
• Event Management and Execution
• Visitor Attraction Management
• Work placement 2
• Work-based project
• Strategic Thinking
• Food and drink tourism
• Contemporary Issues in Hospitality

Career and Study Progression

With a core understanding of the intricacies of event management combined with the hospitality industry and exposure to an array of events across London, you will gain transferable skills for a range of careers in international or UK events management. You may also wish to undertake postgraduate study to specialize in a subject you’ve already studied or to explore something new.

Employers in the events industry express the need for professionals possessing a combination of practical and theoretical skills. In addition, employers recognize the merits of diverse skills in marketing, HR, operations, and finance, all of which are developed whilst studying for an events management degree.