Tourism Management (3 year)

Develop your passion for travel, build your skills in tourism innovation, and put responsible entrepreneurship into practice. Come and seize the opportunities the world of tourism has to offer.

The Tourism Management programme provides a strong focus on sustainable tourism. You will learn all about the impact of tourism on different cultures, the environment and the economic interests that come into play: in other words, how you can use commercial services in developing destinations. The three year Fast Track course is more intensive than its four-year counterpart, including more in-depth study. You will acquire a large part of the theoretical knowledge through self-study.

Are you creative and entrepreneurial, with a an eye for sustainability and corporate social responsibility? If your answer is ‘yes’, Tourism Management could be just the course you are looking for!

• Rated as one of the best public funded Tourism Management programmes in the Netherlands.
• Strong focus on sustainable tourism.
• You will work on real-life cases for actual industry partners.
• In the third year go can choose to study abroad by going on Grand Tour to one of our campuses in South Africa, Thailand or Bali.
• Continue your studies with one of our masters programmes
• The programme is closely linked to the European Tourism Future Top Institute (ETFI) of NHL Stenden.

Specialisations

In your final year, you will have the option to specialise by taking a minor: these are electives in which you focus on a specific subject or expand your knowledge by taking an additional subject. This allows you to truly take charge of your education by ‘customising’ your course. You can take this minor at the Leeuwarden branch or at one of the NHL Stenden campuses located in South Africa, Thailand or Bali (Grand Tour). You can also choose from various minors offered by other courses and universities of applied sciences – this is all part of broadening your academic skills.

• Heritage Experience Management(Leeuwarden). Focusing on the management of natural and cultural heritage, you research the tourism possibilities for a particular heritage site. Working for local companies, students develop, for instance, an app or experience related to the heritage site.
• Outdoor Leadership and Adventure(Leeuwarden, Bali). Focusing on planning and guiding outdoor activities, you learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur in the industry, from setting up a business to being a manager. And you learn to understand and develop sustainable products and innovative strategies.
• Community-Based Tourism (Thailand). Focusing on small-scale tourism in developing countries, you work with development organisations and the tourism industry to develop Community-Based Tourism run and owned by the local community.
• Tourism Geography & Planning (Leeuwarden). This pre-master programme consists of two minors and a dissertation and is offered in cooperation with the University of Groningen (RUG). Tourism Management graduates can then enrol straight onto the Cultural Geography Master programme at the RUG.

Kastu feedback about the program after the visit

• NHL has super great NOTIZ Hotel (4*) ran by students.
• NHL has super great restaurant with the highest quality food - Restaurant Wannee (led by former Michelin Star Chef Albert Kooy).
• All around campus NHL have places where students work (Canteen (with great food and huge selection of meals), Student Café, Coffee bar, Conference and events).
• Mostly it's one week of lectures and one week of practical work in one of the universities places (cafes, restaurant, hotel and other), the students get the ability to work in several different places during their studies.
• Each of these places are run by students who are supervised by professionals. Each year students are given more responsibility (Year 1: Operational; Year 2: Supervisor; Year 3: Manager; Year 4: Internship).