Tourism Management (AD)
- Full-time
Discover, experience, create and connect. Your tourism adventure starts here! Tourism Management is all about adventure, experience, and connecting people. You learn how to surprise guests, make special moments possible and create sustainable value for destinations. As an AD Tourism Management student, you'll work in the field from day one and discover how your ideas can impact tourism organisations.
Learning by doing
The associate degree in Tourism Management puts theory straight into practice. Right from the first year, you'll work on real projects for tourism businesses and develop your skills in guest experience, storytelling and value creation for both guests and organisations. For instance, in the first semester, you'll work on:
Designing an international trip taking in tourism hotspots
Organising excursions and developing new experiences
Reaching different target groups using appropriate online content
Each of these projects focuses on how you make tourism attractive whilst also having a positive and sustainable impact on the destination. You'll grow from an inquisitive explorer into a professional that sees opportunities to turn ideas into concrete plans.
Why study AD Tourism Management?
During the space of just two years, you'll develop into a professional ready for a career in tourism. You’ll learn how to collaborate, recognise opportunities and develop projects from start to finish. With company visits, design challenges, field trips and an internship, you'll gain experience with a wide range of organisations and destinations. Personal coaching and the chance to use your own initiative will help you discover your talents, so you're well prepared for operational and coordinating positions in the tourism industry at local, regional, national and international level.
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Overview of Tourism Management
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Top-rated programme in the Netherlands
The Tourism Management associate degree at NHL Stenden is one of the top 3 programmes according to the Dutch Higher Education Guide. Students especially value the programme's practical assignments, the personal coaching and its direct relevance to the tourism industry. The high ranking shows that this is a quality programme that optimally prepares you for a career in tourism.
Is this the degree for you?
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