Entry requirements

- Initial training: Licence degree in economics, management, geography, history, sociology, communication, applied foreign languages, or foreign and regional languages, literature and civilisations, or an equivalent qualification (180 credits). Admission based on application, career objectives and interview.

Benefits of the program

- An open perspective on the world and the tourism sector, with strong involvement from professionals. Innovative, student-centred teaching methods that encourage challenges and projects and stimulate independence [e-learning, entrepreneurship, learning by problem solving, visual thinking and creativity. Students can write their assignments in English.

- Creation of an e-portfolio of work that provides evidence of achievements and the skills acquired.

- Located in Val d'Europe, home to Disneyland Paris and Villages Nature.

Acquired skills

- Analysis of sectoral issues: differentiate the strategies of the actors, identify the societal, technological and economic components of supply and demand.

- Group project work: leading a team, contributing to knowledge creation

International

The Master's in Tourism enables students to carry out study mobility periods at institutions offering a tourism course. Likewise, students from these institutions come for a semester in either the first- or second-year Master’s programmes:

• BCI/CREPUQ - Canada: Université du Québec à Montréal - Université du Québec à Trois Rivières - Université Laval.

• MICEFA - USA: California State University (CSU) - Florida International University - New Mexico State University - Northern Arizona University - University of Connecticut - University of New Orleans - University of Waterloo.

• Bilateral agreement: Universidade Federal Fluminens (Brazil) - Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia) - Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia) - Chonbuk National University (South Korea) - Rikkyo University (Japan).

• Erasmus + agreements: Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) - Universidad de Cádiz (Spain) - Universidad de Málaga (Spain) - Universidad Ricardo Palma (Spain) - Università degli Studi del Molise (Italy) - Università della Calabria (Italy) - Almaty Management University (Kazakhstan) - Voronezh State University (Russia).

Capacities

40

Course venue

Your future career

- Further studies during the second-year Master’s in Tourism,

- Further studies during a second-year Master’s at another university,

- Reorientation,

- Year out.

Professional integration

Students who pass first year progress to second year and do not enter the job market.

Study objectives

First year is structured into core units because few students are fully familiar with the actors, strategies and tools of the tourism sector at the start of the year. The course modules include project engineering (project management, mind mapping, design thinking, business canvas, service innovation); understanding the world of tourism and its actors (international economics of tourism, infrastructures, transports and networks, tourism law, tourism actors and their strategies, sociology of tourism); marketing and customer relations (operational marketing, strategic marketing, quality and customer relations); information and communication (communication in English, digital communication tools, community management); interdisciplinary skills (e-portfolio workshop and finding an internship, methodology, presentation of second-year course content).

Knowledge is built up progressively throughout the course. Classes aim to provide a thorough understanding of the complexity of the tourism sector due to the digital transformation of our societies and globalisation. This enables students to make informed choices about their second-year classes: presentation of three programmes, individual orientation interview, finding a work placement for the second year during the first year, etc.

Major thematics of study

Project engineering, marketing and customer relations, knowledge of the tourism sector and its players, information and communication, understanding the tourism environment, digital strategy.

Calendar

4- to 6-month work placement in France or abroad (February to May / July) or an Erasmus semester.

Options

- Business creation and entrepreneurship

- Data analysis and processing

- Culture and heritage

- HRM and skills development

- Community life and leadership.

The options classes are combined for first- and second-year Master’s students, which fosters exchanges between the two years.

Students must choose one option in M1 and one option in M2.

Back-to-school date

09-23-2024