Hospitality and Tourism Management

This Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Surrey will challenge you with new ideas to develop you as a critical researcher, as well as helping you build a solid grounding in research methodologies.

Surrey’s academics shape the agenda for scholarship and practice in hospitality, tourism, events and transport, and carry out cutting-edge research in topics ranging from lifestyle, travel, entrepreneurship, food and culture, to the digital economy and artificial intelligence.

Career opportunities

This Hospitality and Tourism Management programme offered at the University of Surrey takes around three to four years of full-time study. You’ll take on a structured, supervised programme of scholarly research, leading to a thesis that makes an original contribution to the field and is suitable to be published in a series of high-quality, refereed journal articles.You’ll be assigned two supervisors with expertise in your area; normally one will be an expert in your subject, and one who is an expert in methodology. Your supervisors will guide you through your PhD, from developing your project through to your analysis and writing your thesis. You’ll normally meet with your supervisor every four to six weeks.There’s no formal teaching as part of your PhD programme, but you’ll benefit from a range of support and learning opportunities in addition to your supervision meetings. These include a tailored weekly programme of formal research training in research methodology and career development. You’ll have the chance to present and discuss your research at Surrey’s weekly research seminars.You’ll also be able to take any of our MSc modules and join our range of interactive workshops that run throughout the year, exploring topics such as personal effectiveness, information skills, presenting research and job skills. You’ll also be able to qualify as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy by completing the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching.We encourage our students to attend international conferences and training courses. We can support your travel costs to these events.

Research themes include:

• Economic modelling and forecasting

• Innovation, entrepreneurship, risk and uncertainty

• Future of work and labour mobility

• Visitor decision-making, behaviour and destination marketing.

• Sustainability evidence-based policy making

• Industry’s acceptance of responsibility for sustainable development

• Sustainable development and entrepreneurship

• Sustainable and efficient transportation

• Sustainability marketing, product design and communication.