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Tourism and Hospitality - Level 3
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Other start dates:
2nd September 2024
- Length 2 Years
- Study Full-Time
- Location Kidderminster College
More about the course
The travel and tourism industry is ranked as one of the biggest industries in the UK, employing over two million people nationwide.
Our Travel and Hospitality - Level 3 course at Kidderminster College is designed to provide a strong understanding of the travel, tourism and hospitality sector, giving you the knowledge, skills and experience to pursue a career within one of the many diverse branches of the tourism industry. This Level 3 course will enable you to develop the high-level work and life skills essential for working within such a fast-paced and expanding industry. At Kidderminster College, we have our modern aircraft simulator, where many lessons occur.
Many of your lessons will take place in our modern aircraft simulator, giving you an immersive experience of working in a cabin environment as you learn. You'll also have many opportunities throughout the course to go into the field on trips and residentials to industry-relevant locations. These trips and residentials support many of the units you'll study on this course, providing opportunities to meet and build relationships with those working within the industry.
Entry requirements
- 5 GCSEs at grade 4/C or above, including English and maths.
What will I achieve?
At the end of this two-year course, you'll gain a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Travel and Tourism.
What will I learn?
- Investigating travel and tourism
- UK and European long-haul destinations
- Advanced customer service
- Airline cabin crew
- Events industry
- Holiday representatives
- The cruise industry
- Manging visitor attractions
- Tour operation management
- Aviation operations
- Worldwide passenger airlines.
How is the course taught?
- Presentations
- Task-based exercises
- Practical demonstrations
- One-to-one support
- Tutorials and lectures.
This course will be delivered over three or four days at Kidderminster College and will require an additional day of dedicated self-study.
You'll also utilise our on-site state-of-the-art flight cabin simulator.
Classes generally run between 9am-4:15pm but may vary.
Alongside this course, there will be several day trips and a residential trip to industry-relevant businesses and services to help you develop your working knowledge of the tourism industry.
How am I assessed?
- Essays
- Individual research
- Group presentations
- Online multiple choice exams
- Display boards
- Role-plays
- Case studies.
Work experience opportunities
As part of your course, you'll be required to complete a 30-hour work placement in a business relevant to the tourism and hospitality industry.
English and maths
If you're aged 16-18 and haven't achieved a GCSE grade 4/C in English and maths, you'll need to take English and maths classes alongside your programme of study.
English will be included through learning new terminology and being able to communicate with a range of people.
Maths will be included by learning how to serve customers when they are paying for products.
Where can I progress?
Upon completion of this course, you can go on to study our FdA Tourism and Hospitality Management here at Kidderminster College.
Alternatively, you can progress onto university to study for similar degrees or go into employment.
Get in Touch
Meet our tutors and students
Irun Deol
Tutor - Tourism and HospitalityI have a love for travel, tourism and aviation operations. Having worked as a cabin crew for the UK's flagship carrier, British Airways, I now share my passion for guiding learners towards pursuing a career within the industry. Witnessing learners' hard work results in successful destinations such as employment for companies including Jet2, TUI, and Swissport is rewarding. The realistic KC Air cabin mock-up provides our learners with a hands-on and unique learning experience, preparing them for the dynamic travel and tourism industry.
Nicole Wassell
Tutor - Tourism and HospitalityI currently teach on the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality course, with experience teaching across both further and higher education. My BA in International Tourism Business Management degree enabled me to gain invaluable skills and industry knowledge, which I enjoy sharing with my teaching. I have experience working in hospitality, events and customer service. I enjoy travelling to new places and immersing myself in the local history and culture.
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What can I do with a qualification in Tourism and Hospitality?
Daily tasks:
- Arranges for payment of bills, keeps accounts and ensures adherence to licensing and other statutory regulations.
- Approves and arranges shipboard entertainment and shore trips and liaises with ship.
- Ensures physical comfort of residents or passengers and makes special arrangements for children, the elderly and the infirm if required.
- Determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs.
- Analyses demand and decides on type, standard and cost of services to be offered.
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Daily tasks:
- Determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs.
- Advises on currency and passport/visa regulations and any necessary health precautions needed.
- Makes and confirms travel and accommodation bookings, arranges group holidays, tours and individual itineraries.
- Discusses client.
- Co-ordinates the activities of clerical, secretarial and other staff.
- Plans work schedules and assigns tasks and responsibilities.
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Daily tasks:
- Advises on issues of currency, passports, visa requirements, insurance, car hire, vaccinations and other health precautions.
- Informs client of any changes in travel arrangements.
- Handles cash, debit and credit card payment.
- Consults travel time-tables, books travel tickets and accommodation.
- Establishes availability with tour operators and makes bookings.
- Discusses client requirements and shows brochures containing suitable packages.
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Daily tasks:
- Directs and instructs passengers in the event of an emergency, ensures safety procedures are followed.
- Makes announcements on behalf of the pilot, demonstrates the use of emergency equipment and checks that safety belts are fastened.
- Sells duty-free goods during the flight.
- Ensures that sufficient stocks of meals and beverages are on board the aircraft prior to take off and serves passengers during the flight.
- Welcomes passengers on board the aircraft, guides them to their seats and assists with any hand luggage.
- Checks emergency equipment, distributes reading material, blankets and other items, and ensures that the aircraft is ready for the receipt of passengers.
- Receives passengers at airport terminal, examines tickets and other documentation, checks in luggage and distributes boarding passes.
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Daily tasks:
- Inspects and issues tickets on trains, deals with passenger enquiries, and takes charge of goods being transported on train.
- Checks control panel operation before start of journey, operates train door controls and signals to driver to start or stop train.
- Attends to the safety, welfare and comfort of passengers on trains and manages train crew.
- Assists passengers with special needs to board and leave trains.
- Loads and unloads mail, goods and luggage, operates lifts and hoists and drives small trucks.
- Helps with passenger enquiries and makes announcements over a public address system at stations.
- Examines and collects tickets at the ticket barrier of a railway station.
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Daily tasks:
- Serves food and beverages to passengers.
- Makes announcements to passengers and deals with enquiries.
- Receives passengers on ship, examines tickets and other documentation, directs them to their cabin and assists with any luggage.
- Completes way-bill at scheduled points on route and balances cash taken with tickets issued.
- Signals to driver when to stop and start bus, collects fares from passengers and issues tickets and changes destination indicators as necessary.
- Responds to enquiries and complaints, books excursions and other entertainment and provides other assistance and advice to holidaymakers.
- Makes local arrangements at stopover points for food and accommodation.
- Receives passengers, checks tickets and guides them to their seats, makes announcements regarding travel arrangements and places of interest, and deals with passengers.
- Observes regulations concerning the carrying capacity of vehicles and controls the boarding of passengers accordingly.
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What can I do with a qualification in Tourism and Hospitality?
Hotel and Accommodation Managers and Proprietors
Daily tasks:
- Arranges for payment of bills, keeps accounts and ensures adherence to licensing and other statutory regulations.
- Approves and arranges shipboard entertainment and shore trips and liaises with ship.
- Ensures physical comfort of residents or passengers and makes special arrangements for children, the elderly and the infirm if required.
- Determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs.
- Analyses demand and decides on type, standard and cost of services to be offered.
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Travel Agency Managers and Proprietors
Daily tasks:
- Determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs.
- Advises on currency and passport/visa regulations and any necessary health precautions needed.
- Makes and confirms travel and accommodation bookings, arranges group holidays, tours and individual itineraries.
- Discusses client.
- Co-ordinates the activities of clerical, secretarial and other staff.
- Plans work schedules and assigns tasks and responsibilities.
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Travel Agents
Daily tasks:
- Advises on issues of currency, passports, visa requirements, insurance, car hire, vaccinations and other health precautions.
- Informs client of any changes in travel arrangements.
- Handles cash, debit and credit card payment.
- Consults travel time-tables, books travel tickets and accommodation.
- Establishes availability with tour operators and makes bookings.
- Discusses client requirements and shows brochures containing suitable packages.
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Air Travel Assistants
Daily tasks:
- Directs and instructs passengers in the event of an emergency, ensures safety procedures are followed.
- Makes announcements on behalf of the pilot, demonstrates the use of emergency equipment and checks that safety belts are fastened.
- Sells duty-free goods during the flight.
- Ensures that sufficient stocks of meals and beverages are on board the aircraft prior to take off and serves passengers during the flight.
- Welcomes passengers on board the aircraft, guides them to their seats and assists with any hand luggage.
- Checks emergency equipment, distributes reading material, blankets and other items, and ensures that the aircraft is ready for the receipt of passengers.
- Receives passengers at airport terminal, examines tickets and other documentation, checks in luggage and distributes boarding passes.
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Rail Travel Assistants
Daily tasks:
- Inspects and issues tickets on trains, deals with passenger enquiries, and takes charge of goods being transported on train.
- Checks control panel operation before start of journey, operates train door controls and signals to driver to start or stop train.
- Attends to the safety, welfare and comfort of passengers on trains and manages train crew.
- Assists passengers with special needs to board and leave trains.
- Loads and unloads mail, goods and luggage, operates lifts and hoists and drives small trucks.
- Helps with passenger enquiries and makes announcements over a public address system at stations.
- Examines and collects tickets at the ticket barrier of a railway station.
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Leisure and Travel Service Occupations
Daily tasks:
- Serves food and beverages to passengers.
- Makes announcements to passengers and deals with enquiries.
- Receives passengers on ship, examines tickets and other documentation, directs them to their cabin and assists with any luggage.
- Completes way-bill at scheduled points on route and balances cash taken with tickets issued.
- Signals to driver when to stop and start bus, collects fares from passengers and issues tickets and changes destination indicators as necessary.
- Responds to enquiries and complaints, books excursions and other entertainment and provides other assistance and advice to holidaymakers.
- Makes local arrangements at stopover points for food and accommodation.
- Receives passengers, checks tickets and guides them to their seats, makes announcements regarding travel arrangements and places of interest, and deals with passengers.
- Observes regulations concerning the carrying capacity of vehicles and controls the boarding of passengers accordingly.
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