随着新西兰和国际旅游业的发展，世界各地的旅游业正在寻找会说多种语言并了解客人文化需求的毕业生。通过提供必要的语言素养和文化理解以及跨文化的观点，旅游，语言和文化专业课程为学生提供了一个机会，使他们有机会与其他文化的人在旅游业和相关商业环境中合作扎根于旅游管理。
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) majoring in Tourism, Languages and Cultures is a three-year degree for those who wish to work in the field of tourism in New Zealand or overseas. Knowing the language and culture of another country is invaluable when communicating with people from that country. The global tourism industry is seeking graduates who have multilingual skills and intercultural competencies. This qualification cements the critical and creative attributes typical of Humanities graduates with the cross-cultural agility afforded specifically by BAs in Languages and Cultures. The University of Otago is the only New Zealand university to offer a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree combination of this nature, in which students can combine their study of tourism and a specific language and culture of a country in one degree.