Field trips

Field trips offer our students a unique learning experience. We think of the trips as visits to living laboratories where students learn through active, ‘hands-on’ experience. Beyond their studies, they also have the opportunity to develop and enhance their self-confidence and leadership skills.

Students using Mac computers.

We offer an exciting range of field trips for students on all undergraduate planning, housing, tourism and hospitality programmes.

Recent field trips

  • postgraduate planning students visiting Barcelona, Spain; Ruhr Valley, Germany and Venice, Italy)
  • undergraduate planning students in Greater Manchester and Devon
  • undergraduate housing and tourism visits to Newcastle and Birmingham
  • undergraduate and postgraduate housing and tourism visit to Amsterdam
  • postgraduate student tourism visit to Bangkok, Thailand

University field trips are a good way to get to know each other, it helped me to improve my teamwork skills and increase my knowledge in the field. It is also a great opportunity to see some interesting places and have fun!

Eliska Joudalova
BA Tourism and Hospitality Management final year Student