BA (Hons) Adventure Tourism Management at University of the Highlands and Islands

BA (Hons) Adventure Tourism Management develops outdoor leadership skills with tourism and business practice for the adventure sector, covering outdoor skills, safety and leadership, tourism, research, business and entrepreneurship. It is taught at the School of Adventure Studies in Fort William, with work placements and an optional exchange in Norway.

Department: School of Adventure Studies  |  Duration: 4 years full-time; 8 years part-time  |  Intake: September  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Location: Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1 includes Introduction to adventure tourism, Adventure markets: products and services and Adventure geography. Year 2 covers Adventure tourism guiding and interpretation, The contemporary workplace and Understanding adventure. Year 3 includes Sustainable management of adventure tourism and Research skills; year 4 includes Critical perspectives of adventure tourism, Emergent tourism trends and a dissertation, professional adventure project or new business venture plan.

Career pathways

Starting an adventure tourism business, guiding and instructing, international expeditions, events organisation, management in activity organisations, tourism policy or risk management, NGO and national governing body roles, countryside ranger work; progression to PgCert Outdoor and Adventure Therapeutic Practice, MSc Tourism or MSc Sustainable Mountain Development.

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