Master of Science in Tourism and Sustainability

Are you interested in tourism and sustainable development? Do you want to work with creating the tourism of the future? This Master’s program gives you in-depth knowledge about how to evaluate tourism and plan for future tourism from a sustainability perspective.

As a globally leading business industry, the tourism industry has to take responsibility for the planet’s limitations. This Master’s program Tourism and Sustainability provides you with an insight into the paramount challenges that face the tourism industry’s development and our world. You will acquire skills that enable you to grapple with important and often contradictory trajectories of tourism and its sustainable future. This can be, for instance, how tourists often seek the pristine, the authentic, or the genuine, while in doing so also burdening destinations and travel systems through unsustainable patterns of practices and carbon dioxide emissions. On a larger scale, it is not only the tourism industry that is under threat but also the world as we know it. Therefore, the most central question we ask ourselves in the Master’s program in Tourism and Sustainability is – how do we create the tourism industry of the future?

This program provides a comprehensive knowledge of the cultural, economic, environmental, and social aspects of tourism. There is a consistent focus on sustainability and provides skills in planning, analyzing, and evaluating tourism and tourism-related phenomena at local, global, and planetary scales. The course provides excellent opportunities for individual choice and specializations including practice-related projects, as well as the final thesis. It also provides the skills required for carrying out independent research, reflected in the research-based final thesis.

Degree

Master of Science (120 credits) with specialization in Sustainability. The main field of study: Tourism Studies

This is Linnaeus University

Linnaeus University is a modern, international university in the southeast of Sweden. We are located in two nature-loving cities, one by the Baltic Sea and one surrounded by lakes in the greenest city in Europe. More facts about Linnaeus University:

• Founded in 2010 through a merger between Kalmar University and Växjö University;
• Located in Kalmar and Växjö;
• 44,000 enrolled students;
• 2,200 enrolled international students;
• 6th largest university in Sweden in terms of the number of students;
• 780 partner universities in more than 80 countries;
• 100-degree programs on the first-cycle level, 8 of them taught in English;
• 80-degree programs on the second cycle level, 35 of them taught in English.

Kalmar

In Kalmar, Linnaeus University is located in the city center. Universitetskajen is entirely newly built and located just next to the sea. Here you become part of a creative knowledge environment.

The city center is also where most students live. Everything is available within a ten-minute bicycle ride, regardless of whether you want to take a swim in the sea, study, do some shopping, or work out. Historical buildings and cobblestone streets give charm to the city. When it is sunny, the area next to Kalmar Castle’s moat is filled with studying and sunbathing students. Student life is a natural part of Kalmar. This is where your dream of the future begins!