Tourism and Hospitality

University of Brighton has taken a pioneering role in the academic study of Tourism and Hospitality, and will welcomes students undertaking PhD research across all aspects of tourism and hospitality.

On the Tourism and Hospitality Tourism and Hospitality programme offered at University of Brighton University of Brighton expert supervision will allow you to join researchers who undertake intellectually rigorous research that contributes towards the theoretical, methodological and applied development of travel and tourism.

Key facts

As a tourism, hospitality and events PhD student at Brighton, you can develop research plans and apply methods involving both quantitative and qualitative data, supported by appropriate research methods training. You will benefit from:

• a supervisory team comprising two or sometimes three members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional supervisor from another School, another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry.

• desk space and access to a computer in a space specifically designed for research students. There are a range of facilities on the Eastbourne campus including various catering options.

• access to a range of electronic resources via the university’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the network of university campus libraries.

• Details of specific topic areas can be located in the lists below and on the university research pages. Please contact the relevant member of staff before submitting an application through the university’s Doctoral College.

Research interests:

• sustainable, responsible, ethical and community-based tourism

• tourism – policy, planning, development and management

• globalisation, migration and mobility

• sexuality and gender

• niche and special interest tourism – particularly cruise tourism; sport tourism, family tourism, rural tourism, nature based tourism

• tourism and development in developed, developing and emerging countries

• tourism and social justice

• tourism environmental justice (i.e. animal rights in tourism)

• travel philanthropy

• consumer behaviour in tourism

• destination management and marketing

• tourism impacts management

• visual and visuality; culture and media, popular films and tourism

• heritage, landscape and memorialisation

• identities and culture, embodiment, materiality and the senses

• international events and festival

• subculture, counterculture and spectacle