Tourism Management (AD)

Future career after completing Tourism Management (AD)

With your associate degree in Tourism Management, you can immediately start working in various operational and coordination positions within the tourism industry. You can advise clients, develop new tourism products and create appealing marketing content. You can also organise travel, excursions and events and create memorable visitor experiences. 

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Ad Tourism Management NHL Stenden Hogeschool Leeuwarden

This practical programme will set you up to work in a wide range of organisations, from tour operators and travel agents to holiday and theme parks, destination management and marketing bureaus, airlines and governmental organisations. You can also follow-up your associate degree with a bachelor’s degree in Tourism Management and further develop your career in tourism. 

You could for instance work as: 

  • Travel product developer for a travel organisation 
  • Marketing and communications specialist for a holiday park
  • Assistant park manager for a holiday park
  • Sales assistant or operations coordinator for a theme park
  • Social media specialist for a destination marketing organisation
  • Guest experience coordinator and client liaison on a campsite 

Make tourism your work field and create experiences people will remember.

Tourism professionals are needed more than ever!

These are challenging but exciting times, with many new opportunities for the future. A future that calls for resourceful professionals who understand the dynamics of the tourism industry and are willing to think outside the box to develop innovative solutions.

Continue studying

If you’d like to continue your studies and follow a programme at a university of applied sciences, then the AD Tourism Management ties in well with the bachelor’s in Tourism Management in Leeuwarden. And if you want to carry on after that too, you can take one of our master’s such as the Master’s in International Leisure, Tourism & Events Management.  

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aniek-van-den-ouweland
“I’m living proof of the saying ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’.”
Aniek van den Ouweland
Alumna AD Tourism Management

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