Tourism – the world’s largest industry – offers a global labor market once you have completed your degree. The tourism industry is growing both in Sweden and internationally and new fields of work within, for instance, events and experience continue to create new career opportunities and possibilities.

Site visits to regional tourism destinations combined with research conducted at Dalarna University aim to give you knowledge as to how sustainable destination development is implemented in Sweden and the world. Interaction with peers and staff from some 15 nations will expand both your professional network as well as your understanding of different cultural needs and values.

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.

Who is a tourist? Why do they visit particular destinations? How can we create sustainable practices and places? We are looking for students who question the way the world works. We are looking for students who want to know how tourism can help people, what tourism can do for communities and what the challenges for the future of tourism are. Students from all over the world and from any background are welcome to apply.

This two-year Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) programme provides an excellent opportunity for those new to tourism to engage and attain a broad grasp of the subject as well as a deep and analytical insight into aspects of tourism development, culture and related industries. This is an exciting and innovative new programme offered by the University of Glasgow, Dumfries Campus (Scotland), the University of Malta (Malta), Lund University (Sweden) and the University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal). You will graduate with a joint degree awarded by the relevant partners. By studying with a combination of these partners, you will be taught by world-class experts in the areas of social science analysis of tourism, heritage, business innovation and sustainability.

The programme combines in-depth subject knowledge of the services sectors with an understanding of the specific organisational and managerial needs of service activities. The tourism industry is experiencing major changes and challenges. Committed individuals, who can develop, lead and transform service operations are needed more than ever. The specialisation in Tourism is aimed at those with career ambitions in the tourism industry with the entire world as their field of work. Tourism is studied from a multidisciplinary perspective combining elements of management, marketing, social sciences and humanities. You will gain a deeper knowledge of destination development and marketing, value creation and innovation within tourism as well as project management.

Concept developer Event & Besöksnäring gives you the competence to plan, implement, and evaluate the concept and product development for physical and digital concepts. After the training, you can also work with qualified sales, marketing, and event production tasks.