Overview
Overview
The tourism and hospitality industries offer vibrant, immersive career paths in areas such as tourism development, event and festival organisation and hotel resort management.
Employers in this field need staff who enjoy travelling, meeting new people and sharing their experiences with others.
In this major you’ll gain the knowledge and skills needed to become an effective manager in the tourism and hospitality sectors in Australia and overseas.
You will learn about contemporary issues in international tourism, such as event and tourism sustainability, the impact of tourism and events on the local and global economy, destination management, hospitality management and marketing.
Curtin is one of the best places in Australia for learning about hospitality and tourism, being in the top six universities in Australia in this field (ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024). Our ranking means that not only will you get a great education, you'll also gain a competitive edge in the job market.
Parent degrees
You can study this major under the following degrees:
- Bachelor of Commerce (as a single or double major)
- Bachelor of Advanced Commerce (Honours) (as a single or double major)
- Bachelor of Innovation (as a single major)
- Bachelor of Arts (as a double major with an Arts major)
Your choice of parent degree can influence the type of career you might have.
Our Commerce degree also offers additional opportunities to customise your course by offering specialisations as well as majors.
Double degrees
You can study our Tourism and Hospitality major as part of our Arts and Commerce double degree.
Curtin also offers a Tourism and Hospitality Global major, which provides opportunities to study at two or more of Curtin's global campuses.
What jobs can the Tourism and Hospitality course lead to?
- Corporate travel consultant
- Destination manager
- Hotel or motel manager
- Resort manager
- Restaurant and catering manager
- Tourism information officer
- Tourism manager
- Travel industry consultant
What jobs can a Tourism and Hospitality double major lead to?
- Destination marketing manager (with Marketing)
- International hotel mangaer (with International Business or Management)
- Musuem tour guide (with History)
- Tour guide and interpreter (with Chinese, Korean Studies or Japanese)
- Travel influencer (with Digital and Social Media)
What you'll learn
- apply key theoretical principles and practical underpinnings of tourism and hospitality management to industry and business from a conceptual and practical approach, GC1, GC2, GC4
- interpret leadership, ethical and responsible practices, and professional integrity when organising to work within the tourism and hospitality industry, GC1, GC2, GC4
- evaluate information from multiple sources relevant to the many dimensions of tourism and hospitality globally and relate this knowledge from a variety of perspectives to a particular problem setting, GC3, GC5, GC6
- critically formulate innovative and sustainable propositions, supported by appropriate communication and technologies, to manage challenges faced locally and globally by the tourism and hospitality industry, GC2, GC3, GC5, GC6
