OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management
Qualification Number: 603/2316/4

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    Completion Rate

    90.1%

    Course Pass Rate

    95%

    Submission Rate

    88%

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    Duration

    9 Months or Less

    Pedagogy

    Online

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    Course description

    The objective of the OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management qualification is to provide tourism industry professionals with the specialist knowledge needed to advance their careers, or for graduates entering the tourism and hospitality sector to gain the skills needed to manage business operations. The qualification provides learners with a contemporary, critical, and international programme that supports their development as managers with a lifelong-learning orientation.

    The qualification enables learners to analyse complex management problems and to apply and adapt specialist skills and technical terminology to propose solutions to these problems informed by best practice and contemporary research.

    Successful completion of this qualification will enable learners to progress into or within employment and/or continue their study towards a relevant Master’s programme with advanced standing.

    Entry requirements

    For entry onto the OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management qualification, learners must possess:

    • An honours degree in related subject or UK level 6 diploma or an equivalent overseas qualification
    • Mature learners with management experience may also be considered. Learners must check with the delivery centre regarding this experience prior to registering for the programme.
    • Learners must be 21 years old or older at the beginning of the course
    • English requirements: If a learner is not from a majority English-speaking country must provide evidence of English language competency.

    Equivalences

    The OTHM Level 7 diplomas on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) are at the same level as master’s degrees. However, they are shorter (120 credits) and learners will have to proceed to the dissertation stage (60 credits) with university to achieve a full masters or MBA.

    Qualification structure

    The OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management consists of 6 mandatory units for a combined total of 120 credits, 1200 hours Total Qualification Time (TQT) and 600 Guided Learning Hours (GLH) for the completed qualification.

    Mandatory units
    • Strategic Management and Marketing (20 credits)
    • Destination Management (20 credits).
    • International Tourism Policy and Development (20 credits)
    • Digital Tourism and Hospitality (20 credits)
    • Organisational Behaviour in International Contexts (20 credits)
    • Advanced Research Methods (20 credits)
    Duration and delivery

    The qualification is designed to be delivered over one academic year for full-time study, but it is also flexible in its delivery in order to accommodate part-time and distance learning.

    The qualification is delivered face-to-face, through lectures, tutorials, seminars, distance, online by KIMT.

    Assessment and verification

    All units within this qualification are internally assessed by the KIMT and externally verified by OTHM. The qualifications are criterion referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes.

    To achieve a ‘pass’ for a unit, learners must provide evidence to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by all assessment criteria. Judgement that the learners have successfully fulfilled the assessment criteria is made by the Assessor.

    The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgement of the learners’ overall achievement has been arrived at.

    Progression

    The OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management qualification enables learners to progress into or within employment and/or continue their further study. As this qualification is approved and regulated by Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulation), learners are eligible to progress to Master’s top-up programmes at many universities in the UK and overseas with advanced standing.