Melissa Sorbello

Chester is truly a wonderful city to study tourism in. I was blown away by its incredible mix of black-and-white Tudor, Gothic, and Romanesque architecture and its Roman history. The staff in our faculty have been fantastic. My professors are knowledgeable and approachable, with many also providing insight from years of industry experience. 

The resources and facilities are first-class. The smaller specialised library at Queen's Park has meant having exactly the titles we need and being able to find them easily. In addition to this, I thoroughly recommend that you take advantage of the vast array of online resources - databases, industry magazines, and journals- that the university subscribes to and provides.

Queen's Park campus is easy to navigate, but you can also use the resources and facilities across any of the university's campuses. I may be biased, but I think Queen's Park is special, as it's a tight-knit community; you get to know people on a deeper level.

There's always something happening at the University of Chester. You can be involved as little or as much as you like; there's something for everyone. I was fortunate enough to work as an Event Assistant during the 2026 edition of the Festival of Ideas and as a Special Collection Archive Cataloguer, through Unijob - short-term roles that the University of Chester offer exclusively to their students. These roles provided me with invaluable first-hand experience.