Overview
In this Sustainable Tourism - Rethinking the future course at Wageningen University and Research - WageningenX, you will be teamed up and challenged to apply your argumentation skills to implement insights from various tourism disciplines and different social science perspectives to current tourism developments. For example:
- Sociology: how is tourism organised (laws/regulations)?
- Psychology: what effects how tourists experience tourism (COVID 19?!)
- Geography: what does tourism development mean for a particular location?
What you'll learn
- How to implement insights from various tourism disciplines to current developments in the tourism industry
- Become familiar with, and share, inspiring tourism developments across the world
- Recognize and co-create future narratives as a tool to compose new business cases and/or project proposals in your professional context
- Ways to become part of ongoing dialogues on developments for the future of tourism
- How the tourism industry is being affected by the Covid-19 corona virus outbreak.
Programme Structure
Courses include:Tourism Studies and Development
Psychology of Tourism
Sociology of Tourism
Geography of Tourism
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 63 days
- 6 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
Campus Location
- Portland, United States
Disciplines
Sustainable Development Tourism & Leisure View 10 other Short Courses in Tourism & Leisure in United StatesWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This course is especially valuable if you have a background in either the social sciences or tourism/hospitality studies, but everyone is welcome to join (you might want to consider taking TOUR01x first to learn the basic concepts used in this course).
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents249 USD / full≈ 249 USD / full - Out-of-State249 USD / full≈ 249 USD / full
Additional Details
- Unlimited access to self-paced, in-demand courses and professional certificates
- Starting at $249 per learner/year.