Tourism Management
The study of Tourism in the Business School at Greenwich focuses on the management of tourism business and destinations, including visitor attractions, destination marketing organisations, regions, cultural organisations and tour operators, producing employable graduates who go on to work in one of the world's major economic sectors. Whether you follow undergraduate or postgraduate courses or research programmes at Greenwich, we offer students the unique opportunity to study in the heart of the exciting regeneration of East London and within one of the host boroughs for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games.
Globally, tourism is the world's fastest growing economic sector, directly and indirectly generating over 195 million jobs, 7.6% of the total workforce – this is set to rise to 250 million jobs by the end of the decade. By 2020 international arrivals are expected to exceed 1.5 billion reflecting the diversity of the tourism sector, which includes trips taken for leisure, business, events, pilgrimage, education and health.
Our World Heritage Site Campus is a unique and beautiful environment in which to study and plays host to many events and film productions. Greenwich is a key tourism location in the United Kingdom and this, along with its world heritage status, provides an ideal setting for the study of Tourism.
Tourism Staff
View the profiles of staff teaching on the Tourism programmes.
Tourism research in the Business School
All staff teaching on the Tourism programmes at Greenwich are research active, carrying out research in areas such as special interest tourism, wellness tourism, World Heritage Sites, cultural tourism, seaside tourism, heritage tourism, cultural industries and tourism education.
Practitioners are also employed as visiting lecturers and a number of guest speakers are invited to present case studies and discuss contemporary issues with students throughout the academic year.
There are a number of research students in the tourism subject area, if you are interested in pursuing a PhD, MPhil or MRes degree in a tourism-related subject, please contact Dr Catherine Kelly.
Latest news and events
Tuesday 24th February - The BA Tourism management group hosted a visit to the Business School by 30 BTEC Travel and Tourism students and tutors from Kingston College and Richmond College. Students enjoyed a tour of the University's historic campus, met some of the key teaching staff on the degree, and 'tasted' an example of degree level learning as part of a continuing initiative designed to support vocational learners as they progress to HE and degree level study.
9th February 2009 - Dr Catherine Kelly has been nominated to the British Standards Institute national committee for the wellness and spa sector in recognition of her research into holistic and wellness tourism. The BSI works to develop standards for various sectors of the economy, ultimately leading to International Standards Organization protocols (ISO) globally.
24th November 2008 – James Kennell was interviewed live in Margate on BBC1's The Politics Show as part of a report into cultural regeneration in seaside towns. He explained that investment in culture alone could not reverse the decline of seaside tourism in the UK, but may act as a catalyst for change.
6th November 2008 – Nikki MacLeod and James Kennell will be giving a paper on the Cultural Olympiad of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the 2nd Annual International Tourism Studies Association conference in Shanghai, China
11th October 2008 - Jithendran Kokkranikal has given a paper on “Image-divide in destination marketing: an exploration of the chain of influence in South African tourism marketing” at the 2008 conference of the European Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education in Dubai.
Development of Diploma in Travel and Tourism
31st October 2008
The Olympic Legacy: People, Place, Enterprise
The first annual conference on the legacy of the 2012 Olympics is being arranged by the tourism team on 8/9th May 2008 in the business school at Greenwich.