Do you enjoy travelling, and are you tuned into other cultures and foreign languages? Are you interested in how companies work? Looking for a career that enables you to combine tourism, business and intercultural skills? Then study Tourism Management – and where better than in the popular holiday region of Allgäu in southern Germany!
As a tourism manager, you will learn to understand what thrills and motivates holiday-makers and travellers and to turn these special charms into products and tourist services. You can look forward to a wide and interesting range of tasks, potentially international, acting as the interface between key tourism service providers and their target groups.
Besides a solid understanding of the sector with an end-to-end overview of the relevant players in tourism, your practically focused studies and the skills that you acquire in running a business, HR management, marketing, project management, sustainability and digitalisation line you up perfectly for your future career as a special expert or manager. The range of specialist modules, numerous electives and comprehensive support for your practical semester enable you to tailor your choice of courses to suit your personal interests and carefully steer your studies in the direction of your desired future career. Whether in the hotel business, mobility, event management, tour operators or online travel agencies, at tourist destinations, or with airlines or cruise companies – you’ll have your finger on the pulse of all the latest trends in the travel and leisure industry! That’s how you’ll create experiences that make lasting memories...
At a glance
Award
Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
Study mode
full-time
Standard duration
7
ECTS credits
210
Starts
winter semester
Restricted admission
no
Taught in
German, English
Faculty
Tourism Management
Study abroad
optional
Accreditation
ACQUIN
Details about this course
The degree programme is divided into the foundation course (semesters 1 to 3), the advanced course (semesters 4 to 7) and the practical semester (semester 4 or 5) – rounded off with your bachelor’s thesis.
The foundation course (semesters 1 to 3) focuses on introducing students to the concept of tourism, teaching them language skills and familiarising them with core aspects of business. You will also learn about legal, economic and intercultural considerations and be taught key presentation techniques. There’s also an introduction to the digital economy to get you up and running in the sphere of digitalisation.
On the advanced course (semesters 4 to 7), you will learn about core and advanced subjects in tourism management, divided into three theoretical and one practical semester of study.
Alongside the compulsory subjects, you can tailor your choice of additional compulsory elective subjects (= flexi-modules) and two specialist modules to suit your particular interests and talents. Potential majors include destination management, hospitality management, tour operations & sales, modes of transport. We recommend that you select your majors with a view to the practical semester and your career aspirations.
During the practical semester (4th or 5th), you will spend 18 weeks in a company either in Germany or abroad and two weeks attending practically focused classes on campus. However, appropriate vocational training or at least 12 months’ relevant work experience in the industry can be counted instead.
To round off your degree, you then write your bachelor’s thesis. Upon successfully completing the programme, the university of applied sciences will award you the academic degree of Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).
Professional environment:
Tourism managers work in numerous areas of the national and international travel and leisure industry, including opportunities with airlines, train operators and other transport companies, in hotels and catering, at tourist destinations, with tour operators and in the events, trade fairs and conference sector, among other fields.
Career prospects:
Outstanding career prospects in all kinds of mid-level and senior management await you in the ever-expanding travel and leisure industry. Kempten University of Applied Sciences prepares you for management roles in various fields of business and tourism, enabling you throughout your career to perform managerial tasks in the service sector, industry or administration – or as a freelancer or entrepreneur.
List of sectors:
- Train and other transport operators
- Hotels
- Event, trade fair and conference organisers
- Tourist destinations
- Tour operators
- Wellness (incl. pools and spas)
- Tourism business consultancy
- Media (journalism)
- Leisure centres (theme parks)
- Marketing and advertising agencies
- Cruise operators
- Tourism service providers
- Online travel agencies
- Travel sales
- Airlines and airports
- International hotel sector
Application process:
Have we whetted your appetite for the degree programme in Tourism Management? If so, we would be delighted for you to apply. We have pooled all the information and details you might need about applying and the admission requirements .
Admission requirements:
Are you good at thinking in abstract terms and adopting scientific methods? Do you like taking the initiative, and are you service-minded, ambitious and ready for a change of scenery? If so, you’re on just the right track to study Tourism Management!
We subscribe to the values of openness, tolerance and acceptance. Our aim is to teach everyone involved at Kempten University of Applied Sciences about education in an international context. As part of this aspiration, we support university-wide, inter-faculty measures to promote international projects and cross-cultural interaction.
With more than 70 partner universities all over the world, we can offer outstanding opportunities for semesters or internships abroad and specialist and/or language courses. Are you interested in learning more about our international aspirations and the options for you to study abroad? Then we invite you to check out the information we have posted online.
We compile all study programme and examination regulations centrally for you. There you will find all versions and changes. continue
Further details about the degree programme
Practical semester
The degree programme in Tourism Management includes a semester of practice-based study aimed at giving you direct insights into the areas you intend to work in later on. The subject matter covered concerns more exacting tasks and working on demanding projects.
Semesters 4 or 5 are earmarked for the practical semester.
If you have already completed vocational training or at least one year of uninterrupted, relevant work experience in a field related to the degree programme, it is possible to proceed without an internship. For further information, right here or ask Academic Registry / the placement officer for this degree programme.
You can browse internships and vacancies on the Jobs Board, at Study-Work-International, in the database maintained by Academic Registry / the International Office or on notices posted on the ground floor in Building A.
You can swap your experiences on placement with your fellow students in the “Guide to Internships”. For further details, right here.
Information about the practical semester is posted online right here.
Kempten Tourism alumni
We are always curious from the start to see where your career ultimately takes you, which inspired us to form the Kempten Tourism alumni network in spring 2013. It’s a great forum for making, maintaining and nurturing contacts and discussing the latest topics in the sector. Would you like to find out more about the network or join it? If so, we’d be delighted to have you on board! You can find all the relevant information and sign up on the Kempten Tourism alumni webpage.
Contacts
We know how exciting the prospect of going to university can be. So we want you to know whom you can get in touch with if you have any questions about studying with us. Whether they’re about the degree programme, applying or anything else, please contact the University Student Advisory Service.
If you have any questions regarding the course content, please contact the course coordinator
Studiengangskoordination
Prof. Dr. Axel Schulz
a.schulz(at)hs-kempten.de
