Travel & Tourism
Why study Travel & Tourism?
The travel and tourism industry is dynamic, wide-ranging and fast-growing, and it offers a huge variety of employment opportunities for young people. The Travel and Tourism Department at Oldham Sixth Form College offers courses which will help students on their way to a career in the travel and tourism industry, whether they go straight into employment or study at a higher level at University. Even if you don't want to work in the industry, studying Travel & Tourism makes an interesting addition to your portfolio of qualifications.
You can choose to study either AS/A2 level Travel & Tourism, which is an Applied GCE A level subject, or you can go for BTEC National Certificate Travel & Tourism, which is a coursework-only vocational course equivalent to two A levels. Read on to find out more!
Meet the Team:
Mary McKnight, Norma Bewley, Anthony Hilton, Karen Brown, Amanda Lucas.
House of Horrors
There were dark and spooky goings-on at the Little Cot social club in Chadderton on 30th April, as second year students of BTEC National Travel & Tourism staged their House of Horrors event. The event featured scary activities for all the family and raised £938 for Help for Heroes. Planning and Running a Hospitality Event is one of the units of the BTEC National Certificate, and the students’ excellent organisational and customer service skills will help them achieve their final grades.
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Twenty-four students of BTEC National Certificate Travel & Tourism spent the last week in March in Salou, on the Costa Dorada in Catalunya, Spain, to study the development and impacts of mass tourism. As well as visiting Tarragona, they enjoyed spending time on the Rambla and exploring Parc Guell in Barcelona, and spent their last day relaxing at Port Aventura theme park, just a few miles from Salou. Although the weather in Oldham was dreadful both when they left and when they arrived back, the glorious Spanish sunshine more than made up for it!
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