Sustainable tourism starts with you.
It takes your passion for tourism way beyond sunshine, beaches and palm trees. It raises your awareness of the opportunities to responsibly and sustainably continue to explore the world. With sustainable tourism, you take into full account the current and future economic, social and environmental impact of tourism. You address the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities. For us, this means being all-inclusive. It’s a new interpretation. A concept that responds to changing trends in tourism.
- Focus on sustainable tourism
- Work on projects from the tourism sector
- Customise your course with over 100 minors we have on offer
- Choose a career in the world’s most resilient and vibrant industry
- Explore the world on Grand Tour to Bali, South Africa and Thailand or go to one of the 120 Exchange partner universities around the globe
- Do a seven-month internship and raise your career prospects: many of interns start their career in the same company
- Work on research with NHL Stenden’s European Tourism Futures Institute
NHL Stenden offers first-year international students a housing guarantee through its accommodation partners. Check out our housing page for more information.
Overview of Tourism Management
What Tourism Management offers
Our tourism management programme is leading with its focus on sustainable tourism. It means you study the effect tourism has on the local culture and the environment as well as explore the economic interests that play a role. And as the programme also covers policy-making with respect to sustainable tourism and responsible tourism, you gain a better understanding of the processes and the factors involved. You then use this understanding to make well-grounded decisions as a professional in tourism management. With the Tourism Management programme, you get to experience the industry through the eyes of a consumer, understand the theory through the eyes of a specialist and receive feedback directly from the field. It makes the programme so much more than its inspiring guest lectures, excursions and international field trips.
Tourism management in practice
Right from day one, you get to work for clients in the tourism sector, working in small groups on developing new tourism products and creating unique experiences for different types of destinations and tourists. This method of working (Design-Based Education) means you learn to draw on feedback to adapt your ideas and become more flexible, while also developing your teamwork and leadership skills. You could be developing an innovative product, finding ways to promote a tourist destination, greening a holiday park, making a tourism attraction appealing for a particular target group, or developing an effective online marketing campaign – or all of the above! It all adds to you developing your insights into the sector and learning to create solutions for real-world situations in the tourism industry.
In your final year, you bring your knowledge and skills in tourism management with a paid internship in the tourism industry. It not only gives you the opportunity to invest in your personal development but also offers an excellent chance of employment after graduating.
Gain international experience
During the Tourism Management degree, you get to put your passion for travel into practice with field trips, minor subjects and internships abroad. Our participation in RUN-EU means you can join Short Advanced Programmes and carry out projects with partner institutions in Europe. You can also go to one of the NHL Stenden’s Grand Tour locations in South Africa, Bali or Thailand in your third year. Or you can go on an exchange to a partner institution and delve into a totally new way of studying. With over 100 different minors on offer through NHL Stenden and held at locations all over the world, you're sure to find the perfect specialisation, whether it’s focusing on Heritage Experience Management, Outdoor Leadership and Adventure Tourism or Destinations in Transition (to name just a few). It all helps prepare you to work anywhere in the world when you’ve graduated – and gets you thinking about how you can travel sustainably and responsibly.
The reasons to study at NHL Stenden
The things that make a difference in the world often start as ideas from people daring to question what others assume. At NHL Stenden, you work in mixed groups so you can use each other's perspectives to unravel unobvious choices. Through real-life projects you learn by doing and this, combined with your internship, truly gives you a head start on your career. With our international opportunities and study environment, you develop a global network while the extracurricular activities you can pick up mean you develop talents that help you explore beyond your studies. While this is all great for your future, we know you also need to focus on your time as a student. Which is why we aim to make NHL Stenden your home away from home, a community where you’re known by your name, so you can be the person you truly are. For us, that makes you original. And it makes NHL Stenden, home of the originals.
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Is this the degree for you?
If you're confident this degree is the one for you, then why not apply online straightaway? Or pick one of the other options to help you take the next step.