This unit is designed for students wishing to undertake research in a specific topic related to their honours thesis topic.  It enables students to select an approved tourism or hospitality management problem or issue, and will culminate in the production of a management report.  The focus of the unit is on tourism and/or hospitality management theory and practice related to one particular product/sector of student interest.

It is envisaged that the topic under review will focus on the issues of management related to their honours thesis topic.  Thus it will be neither mutually inclusive or exclusive of the student's thesis topic, but will instead be complementary to it.  In this way the study undertaken in this unit will be supportive of the wider field of knowledge in which the student is engaged,  It is also envisaged that the unit will form the basis of a broader two semester study leading on to more in-depth research in the succeeding unit Tourism & Hospitality Management VB.