Future career after completing the Leisure & Events Management programme

Career diversity

As a graduate in Leisure & Events Management, you’ll have developed your own vision of sustainable leisure, be a strategic thinker and enjoy working as part of a multidisciplinary team. Acting as a key coordinator and communicating at all levels of the organisation, you’ll adeptly juggle a multitude of tasks. As a leisure & events professional, your work could involve anything from developing ideas for events or sports events to booking concerts for a large pop music venue, from handling the marketing for a theme park to developing visitor experiences for a museum. 

Careers open to you after graduation include:

• Event Manager or Media Manager at a sports marketing company
• Concept developer for a theme park or experience agency
• Government Policy Officer focusing on placemaking
• Marketing and Communications Manager for a cultural venue
• Volunteer coordinator for a pop podium
• Staff member in the foundation of a professional football club
• Booking Manager/Entertainment Manager for a major music venue
• Project Manager for social or urban projects
• Entrepreneur with your own business

Continue your studies

Take your passion for Leisure & Events to the next level with a master’s degree. With the master’s in International Leisure, Tourism & Events Management (public-funded) you get to work in our European Tourism Futures Institute and use its unique scenario planning tool to help make strategic decisions in the industry. On the master’s in International Hospitality and Service Management you develop your hostmanship skills, working with the industry and our Academy of International Hospitality Research to apply your strategic insights, explore value creation and find your niche in the industry.  

If you take the Tourism Geography & Planning minor during your bachelor programme, you can enrol in the Cultural Geography Master at the University of Groningen.