What is BTTM?
Bachelor of Travel & Tourism Management is a four-year degree designed to create tourism and hospitality industry leaders providing management knowledge, technical skills and insights that are needed to be professional in the tourism world.
A 6-month work placement/internship in the final semester year gives invaluable industry experience. The course thoroughly explores the links between various aspects and segments of tourism, while a flexible approach gives the opportunity to focus on tourism and hospitality.
Why BTTM?
BTTM delivers the skills necessary for professional engagement across diverse fields of tourism from strategic destination development through to designing and delivering memorable visitor experiences.
A high level of industry engagement is central to the four-year degree. Field trips to many significant tourist destinations and attractions gives the chance to experience theory in practice and learn directly from owners, managers, experts and specialists.
How is BTTM?
BTTM degree is awarded after the completion of 126 credits. The course has been designed in such a way that graduates of BTTM will be able to work in different areas and positions within the tourism industry. The degree is concerned with the management of different institutions or businesses, such as resorts, hotels, airlines, attractions or historic sites.
Knowledge that is crucial to success in the tourism industry – analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, and research and communication – is embedded in a curriculum that offers specialist core subjects and specialised electives.
Program Objectives
The BTTM course has been designed to prepare the students to enter the hospitality industry as middle management level employees/managers/trainers and to serve in the travel and tourism sectors. It is a four-year fulltime semester system course designed to produce a professional human resource for the dynamically growing travel and tourism sector of Nepal. This program explores the wide variety of services provided by today’s travel and tourism industry while developing the business knowledge and skills required for success in the private and public sector of tourism.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course the students will be able to:
- gain an understanding of travel and tourism and its operation both theoretically and practically;
- gain knowledge about not just the fundamentals of travel and tourism but also about the more advanced concepts related to the field;
- gain knowledge about the policies related to travel and tourism;
- understand tourism in the light of Nepalese society;
- handle the function of international tourist service operation including handling, managing and planning tours, treks, and rafting program;
- handle domestic and international ticketing;
- get employment in national as well as an international market;
- develop an entrepreneurship skill in the travel and tourism industry;
- join a higher level course in travel and tourism
