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Tourism & Leisure Industry Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.

Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning

Tourism & Leisure Industry via distance learning

The global significance of tourism as an economic, environmental, and social force has never been greater. Modern methods of transportation enable growing numbers of people to travel everywhere in the world. Tourism will be the largest industry in the world. This program reviews the management, marketing, and financial issues relevant to the tourist industry. It covers different touristic segments namely transportation, accommodation, food and beverages, entertainment, destinations; and the economic, political, environmental, and social effects that regional tourism leaves. It also provides current information on the skills required by travel agents.

Academic Supervisor : Sukarn Sharma
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Tourism & Leisure Industry Online via distance learning

Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Tourism & Leisure Industry.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Catering & Restaurant Management - Hotel Management - Outdoor Recreation Management - Special Events Management - Tourism & Leisure Management - Translation & Interpretation .

Specialist - Expert Diploma - Tourism & Leisure Industry Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Tourism & Leisure Industry via distance learning = 45 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.

Bachelor's Degree - Tourism & Leisure Industry Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Tourism & Leisure Industry via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Tourism & Leisure Management.

Master's Degree - Tourism & Leisure Industry Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Tourism & Leisure Industry via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Tourism & Leisure Management. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).

Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Tourism & Leisure Industry Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Tourism & Leisure Industry via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Tourism & Leisure Management. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).

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Tourism & Leisure Industry Online

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...

Tourism & Leisure Industry
This course studies the conceptual and operational aspects of the tourism industry from a variety of perspectives including motivations for travel, social and economic impact, product development, market analysis, and future trends. It examines the major subsystems within the visitor industry- travel agencies, airlines, hotels, tour operators, leisure activities, restaurants, and entertainment organizations.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Tourism & Commercial Recreation
This course deals with the business principles associated with developing and managing tourism-based business and commercial recreation. It includes entrepreneurship, product development, marketing, promotional activities, and financial analysis. It also identifies the human and physical resources required to undertake recreational activities.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Leisure & Recreation
This course provides a social, cultural, and economic examination of the impact tourism, leisure, and recreation. It covers issues such as changes in the quality of life of tourist-destinations residents, the social and cultural impacts of tourism, gender relations and sexuality, crime and international security issues, and the economic and political impacts of the hospitality and tourism industry development.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Tourism Law & Policy
This course studies the legal aspects that relate to the operation of tourism both domestic and international. It also covers the legal environment in which a tourism or a hospitality management organization functions. It examines the numerous issues that a community must consider in establishing a successful tourism industry. These include the selection of appropriate types of tourism for a community, the identification and utilization of necessary resources, and the regulation of tourism.
Academic Supervisor: Philipose Daniel

Tourism Group Dynamics
This course is a theoretical and applied study of the interactions between groups' individuals in recreational and tourist settings. It uses a variety of approaches to examine group types, formation, motivation, and patterns of behavior as well as conflict resolution, problem solving, leadership, and communication.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Airline & Transportation Systems
Transport is one of the most important factors that contributes to the international development of tourism. This course examines the different types of transportation systems, their temporal and spatial distribution, and the opportunities and constraints affecting their operations.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Travel & Tour Operations
This course deals with the organization and structure of the travel industry. It examines all issues affecting travel and tour operations: the aviation business, tour operators, travel agencies, planning and marketing packaged tours, air fares and tickets, reservation system, and promotional fares.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Lodging & Hotel Operations
This course provides an insight of all hospitality functional areas, including reservations, rooms, food and beverage, sales, event management, and accounting. It explores how to make effective managerial, business, and operational decisions based on a thorough understanding of hotel operations, and shows how to improve efficiency while serving guests better.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Ecological Tourism
This course examines the principles and practices of an environmentally responsible tourism. It emphasizes the preservation of both the natural and cultural resources of a destination and the simultaneous controlled development that safeguards touristic resources. The economic viability and growth of this type of tourism is also stressed.
Academic Supervisor: Zuleyma Loggiodice Lattuf

Tourism Promotion & Marketing
This course examines the innovative and dynamic environment of international tourism marketing. It discusses the nuances of tourism products and services for the development of distinctive marketing approaches and promotional strategies. It reviews the various techniques utilized to conduct tourism research and the analysis and application of their findings in order to formulate effective marketing plans and remain competitive in the international market place.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Recreation Resources Management
This course examines the principles, concepts, and theories related to people's recreational use of cultural and natural settings. It covers the cultural and natural resources, their capabilities and limitations, and the laws, policies, and institutional arrangements which exist to manage recreation in cultural and natural settings in different countries and environments.
Academic Supervisor: Zuleyma Loggiodice Lattuf

Travel Agency Services
This course explains travel agency and airline operations. It includes industry regulations, codes, geography, tour programs, visa and health requirements, customer service, travel formalities, and sales techniques. It also considers different types of customers, their needs and expectations; how to create good customer relations; the selling process, making recommendations, and closing deals.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma

Tourism Management
This course examines the complexity of tourism industry and the interaction between its various business sectors, tourists, and host destinations. It explains planning and policy making processes for integrated tourism management. It also considers the role of tourist motivation and decision-making, the risk and satisfaction level of the activities offered, and different destinations policies.
Academic Supervisor: Zuleyma Loggiodice Lattuf

Tourism Risk Management
This program investigates the nature and structure of risk in tourist events and recreation environments. Methods to identify, reduce and manage risks will be addressed at both institutional and operational levels. It examines the legal considerations for tourist events and recreation program delivery.
Academic Supervisor: Zuleyma Loggiodice Lattuf

Sustainable Tourism
This course provides a critical examination of the theories and concepts associated with sustainable tourism. It explores the strategies for its implementation and evaluation. It examines the role of the community and the growing importance of alliances in developing and implementing a truly sustainable tourism.
Academic Supervisor: Zuleyma Loggiodice Lattuf

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Tourism & Leisure Industry Online via distance learning

Recommended Professional References.

Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.

Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...

ABBTUR - Associação Brasileira de Turismólogos e Profissionais do Turismo
ABTA - Association of British Travel Agents
AETP - Associação Empresas Turísticas Portuguesas
AITO - Association of Independent Tour Operators
ANTOR - Association of National Tourist Offices and Representatives
APHORT - Associação Portuguesa de Hotelaria, Restauração e Turismo
ASTA - American Society of Travel Agents
ATLAS - Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research
CTH - Confederation of Tourism & Hospitality
CTP - Confederação do Turismo Português
ETTSA - European Technology and Travel Services Association
FFTST - Fédération Française des Techniciens et Scientifiques du Tourisme
IAAPA - International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions
IFITT - International Federation for Information Technology and Tourism
IUF - International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tourism
OTIUM - Asociación Iberoamericana de Estudios de Ocio
SITE - Society of Incentive Travel Executives
TIES - The International Ecotourism Society
TS - The Tourism Society
TTRA - Travel & Tourism Research Association
UMIH - Inion des Métiers et des Industries de l'Hôtellerie
UNWTO - United Nations World Tourism Organization
USTOA - United States Tour Operators Association
WTTC - World Travel and Tourism Council
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Admission requirements - Tourism & Leisure Industry

Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.

For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...

Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...

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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education

This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...

Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...

Duration - Tourism & Leisure Industry Online via distance learning

For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...

All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.

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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning

Tourism & Leisure Industry Online

Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.