Tourism Studies
Tourism is the study of the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one year for leisure, business and other purposes.
Tourism studies prepares candidates to enter various fields of tourism after completing a minimum of two years of study. It provides the opportunity for candidates to pursue further study to enable careers in areas such as destination management, tourism and digital marketing, social media tourism management, digital tourism, digital content management, space tourism guide, meeting and conventions planning, resort management and planning, hospitality product
Tourism Studies
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Candidate MUST have Five (5) subjects at CXC General Proficiency including English.
Awards
The first is the award of a certificate showing each CAPE Unit completed.
The second is the CAPE Diploma, awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed at least six Units, including Caribbean Studies.
The third is the CAPE Associate Degree, awarded for the satisfactory completion of a prescribed cluster of ten CAPE Units including Caribbean Studies, Communication Studies and Integrated Mathematics.
To qualify for an Associate Degree, you require ten (10) units, including Communication Studies, Caribbean Studies, Integrated Mathematics, 4 core courses based on your specialization, 2 approved adjunct/supporting courses and 1 other elective course of your choice.
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General Education Requirements |
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| Communication Studies | Caribbean Studies | Integrated Maths |
| COMM1001 Module 1 – Gathering and Processing Information COMM1002 Module 2 – Language and Community COMM1003 Module 3 – Speaking and Writing |
CCST1181 Module 1 – Caribbean Society and Culture CCST1182 Module 2 – Issues in Caribbean Development CCST1183 Module 3 – Investigating Issues in the Caribbean |
CMTH1331 Module 1 – Foundations of Mathematics CMTH1332 Module 2 – Statistics CMTH1333 Module 3 – Calculus |
Core Courses
Tourism Unit 1
Tourism Unit 2
Management of Business Unit 1 or 2
Entrepreneurship Unit 1 or 2
Adjunct/Supporting Courses
Candidates pursuing the CXC CAPE Associate Degree are required to select at least two CAPE® Units from the Approved Adjunct/Supporting Course Listing in order to fulfil the requirements of the degree.
- One Unit must be selected from the Humanities and Fine Arts
- The second Unit must be selected from the Natural, Physical Sciences and Technology OR Social, and Behavioural Sciences.
At least 2 single Units can be chosen from any of the CAPE® options based on the following categories:
| Humanities and Fine Arts | Social and Behavioural Sciences | Natural, Physical Sciences and Technology |
| Art and Design Unit 1 | Economics Unit 1 or 2 | Applied Mathematics Unit 1 |
| French Unit 1 | Entrepreneurship Unit 1 or 2 | Biology Unit 1 |
| History Unit 2 | Geography Unit 1 or 2 | Pure Mathematics Unit 1 |
| Law Unit 1 | Sociology Unit 1 or 2 | Environmental Science Unit 1 or 2 |
| Spanish Unit 1 | Information Technology Unit 1 or 2 | |
Elective
Choose one units from any other CAPE® syllabus