International Leisure, Tourism & Events Management (Master)

Master International Leisure, Tourism & Events Management course summary

The 1-year master’s programme in International Leisure, Tourism & Events Management focuses on sustainability, quality of life and resilience of the industry within the context of global challenges (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). You will explore relevant theories and key concepts related to leisure and tourism, discuss contemporary challenges and current issues, and use scenario planning as a tool for identifying trends, main drivers of change and possible future developments. During the electives you can specialise and work on real-life projects from the work field. Some of these projects take place abroad (such as in Portugal and Nepal). 

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The programme for International Leisure, Tourism and Events Management

During this course, you’ll follow seminars, lectures, workshops and presentations, work on group assignments and attend guest lectures. 

As part of your studies, you will write a master’s thesis. Research classes will support you through the research process and you will be assigned a thesis supervisor and study coach. 

Course Catalogue

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Practical approach of Leisure, Tourism & Events Management

We aim to help you put theory into practice as quickly as possible. Through our educational concept, Design-Based Education (DBE), you work in small teams of students, teachers, researchers and industry professionals. You tackle current, real-life issues developing and adapting your visions and ideas to form a solid solution. And you gain yet more practical experience during your internship in your final year.   

As part of this master’s degree, you work on research projects from the European Tourism Futures Institute (ETFI). Most of the lecturers in the master's programme are also researchers at ETFI. You work specifically with ETFI in modules 1, 3 and 4.  

  • Module 1: you learn about product development and innovation in leisure, tourism and events.  

  • Module 3: you investigate what changes the tourism, leisure and events sector is set to undergo over the next two decades. These insights are essential in this fast-changing industry with constantly changing trends.  

  • Module 4:  you can choose to do an ETFI project as an elective subject to gain more experience in policy advice, market research, and consultancy. 

NHL Stenden’s research groups bring together people from the industry and researchers from universities of applied sciences. Students are stimulated to be actively involved as they work on projects from the industry that are initiated by our research group. For this master, the European Tourism Futures Institute provides a rich research context with a professorship in Scenario Planning. 

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