Master Sustainable Tourism & Society

How do tourists influence places and cultures and vice versa? How can sustainable tourism help in understanding the challenges that contemporary tourism is facing? Join the Cultural Geography Master in Sustainable Tourism & Society to tackle these questions!

A unique Master in Sustainable Tourism & Society

Tourism is a global phenomenon with important regional and local impacts. Due to the large number of tourist trips and the possible economic influences, tourism development is often seen by policy makers as an important strategy for regional development. During this Master you will gain critical insights into the role of the tourism sector in liveability and identity questions.

✔️ Study sustainable tourism through transdisciplinary involving disciplines such as history, anthropology, psychology, spatial planning, and hospitality studies in the curriculum and a dialogue with global and local actors in (sustainable) tourism development.

✔️ Benefit from international, place-based, critical, and research-oriented approaches to sustainable tourism and society.

✔️ Join a lively environment at te interdisciplinary faculty  Campus Fryslân  of the University of Groningen.

What Tijmen likes most about the programme

"For someone with a background in geography, sociology or anthropology, who likes investigating relationships between places and people I’d say this is the best pogramme they can think of.

I am happy that the master is more focused on the relationship between places and people because I have always found it fascinating, and because I see myself rather as a geographer than a tourism-researcher."

Career

As COVID-19 has shown, tourism is a fragile phenomenon: it can suddenly come to a grinding halt leaving communities that rely on tourism without means to sustain their livelihood.

Moreover, before COVID-19, tourism had reached a level that threatened that same heritage (both human and natural) on which it depends. Experts who are able to find sustainable solutions to such issues are needed!

Study at a Top 100 university

Studying at the University of Groningen means studying at a university ranked among the top 100 worldwide. Sustainable Tourism and Society is part of Campus Fryslân, the eleventh Faculty of the University of Groningen, located in Leeuwarden, the capital of the province of Friesland. Campus Fryslân is an interdisciplinary faculty that conducts teaching and research of societal importance at a national and international scale. You can study the master track Sustainable Tourism & Society at Campus Fryslân.

Questions?

Would you like to know more about the track in Sustainable Tourism & Society or Campus Fryslân? Or do you have questions about studying in Leeuwarden or about how the application and selection procedure works? If so, contact us via phone at +31(0)58 2055000 or by email at cf-masters rug.nl. We are more than happy to help you!