Build a fast-paced career from your love of new experiences.
Designed to prepare you for the demands of industry, our unique Bachelor of Business (Tourism, Leisure, and Event Management) program is your ticket to a fast paced career filled with opportunities. With a shift in focus to sustainable tourism, employers are looking for a new breed of tourism, leisure, and event managers. Real experiences include field work (e.g. Fraser Island) and industry projects that assist you to develop a solid foundation upon which you will enhance your knowledge of consumer needs and motivations, product development, service, stakeholder engagement, event management, business events, leisure, niche tourism, policy and planning, innovation and technology.
- Only a full-time option is available to international students on a Student visa. Online programs are not available to Student visa holders.
- * Estimated tuition fees are based on 2025 rates. Refer to international fees for more information.
- Not all majors/minors and elective options are available at every campus. You should refer to the What Can I Study tab, and the proposed study sequence for your chosen campus and intake for further information.
- * Campus note: In addition to being able to study all courses at Sippy Downs, students may choose to complete some core and foundation business subjects at the Noosa Centre or Gympie campus. There may be a limited selection of elective courses available at South Bank. The option to study at Noosa is not available to international students on a Student visa.
- ** Only first-year and second-year courses are offered at Fraser Coast in 2017. Third-year courses will become available in 2018. Further elective courses are available at Sippy Downs.
- * Campus note: In addition to being able to study all courses at Sippy Downs, students may choose to complete some core and foundation business subjects at the Noosa Centre or Gympie campus. There may be a limited selection of elective courses available at South Bank. The option to study at Noosa is not available to international students on a Student visa.
- ** Only first-year and second-year courses are offered at Fraser Coast in 2017. Third-year courses will become available in 2018. Further elective courses are available at Sippy Downs.
Designed to prepare you for the demands of industry, our unique Bachelor of Business (Tourism, Leisure, and Event Management) program is your ticket to a fast paced career filled with opportunities. With a shift in focus to sustainable tourism, employers are looking for a new breed of tourism, leisure, and event managers. Real experiences include field work (e.g. Fraser Island) and industry projects that assist you to develop a solid foundation upon which you will enhance your knowledge of consumer needs and motivations, product development, service, stakeholder engagement, event management, business events, leisure, niche tourism, policy and planning, innovation and technology.
This program gives you the confidence in public speaking, communication, team work, leadership, time management, and inter-cultural understanding. You’ll benefit from direct industry engagement through guest speakers, volunteer opportunities and work experience with local businesses and other industry-focused activities. Broaden your experience by studying a component of this program overseas with the Study Overseas program.
Further develop your practical skills, and your industry networks, on a supervised 12 week internship where you can really immerse yourself in the career you are striving for. Internships are as broad as the industry with students having interned with: V8 Supercars, Wedding events, Accommodation providers (Oaks Resorts), Woodford Folk Festival, Ecotourism Australia, Aussie World, Moreton and Sunshine Coast Councils and Visit Sunshine Coast (to name but a few).
Career opportunities
Accommodation/destination management; marketing; festivals/sporting events; attraction/leisure/conference management; research; policy; hospitality.
Membership
Australian Tourism Research Institute; Pacific Area Travel Association; Ecotourism Association of Australia; Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education.
Program structure
Introductory courses (8)
BUS101 Communication and Thought
BUS102 Accounting Principles
BUS104 Introduction to Economics
BUS105 Introduction to Management
BUS106 Business Analytics
BUS108 Introduction to Informatics
COR109 Financial Accounting
TSM102 Business Finance
Advanced courses (8)
BUS203 Company Accounting
BUS320 Business Law and Ethics
TSM211 Law of Business Associations
TSM221 Management Accounting
TSM223 Taxation Law and Practice
TSM313 Contemporary Accounting Issues
TSM314 Auditing and Professional Practice
TSM315 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
Elective courses (8)
Select 8 elective courses. Six electives must be advanced level (200/300 coded) courses. Two electives must be from the School of Business while the remaining 6 electives can be from either faculty (Arts, Business and Law or Science, Health, Education and Engineering).
Students can choose to use these electives towards a major from the Business majors listed below:
Note: Program structures are subject to change. Not all USC courses are available on every USC campus.
Total units: 288
Recommended study sequences
- (Sippy Downs) Semester 1 commencement (February)
- (Sippy Downs) Semester 2 commencement (July)
- Study Plan - Semester 2 (mid-year) commencement (South Bank) with Diploma in Buisness
- (South Bank) Semester 1 commencement (February)
- (South Bank) Semester 2 commencement (July)
- (Fraser Coast) Semester 2 commencement - (July)
- (Fraser Coast) Semester 1 commencement (February)
Program requirements and notes
Program requirements
In order to graduate you must:
- Successfully complete 288 units as outlined in the Program Structure
- Complete no more than 10 introductory level (100 coded) courses, including the core course
Program notes
- Completing this program within the specified (full-time) duration is based on studying 48 unit points per semester (normally 4 courses)
- Courses within this program are assessed using a variety of assessment methods which may include essays, seminar presentations, reports, in-class tests and examinations
- As part of your USC program, you may apply to Study Overseas to undertake courses with an overseas higher education provider
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa
- Refer to the Planning your study page to manage your progression
- You may wish to use electives to complete an additional major or minor
- Register your selected major(s) and/or minor(s)