Master of Science [M.S] [Sustainable Destination Development] From Uppsala University

The Master Programme in Sustainable Destination Development - Sustainable Nature-Based Destinations at Uppsala University?is an international Master's programme in which you will be working together with researchers and lecturers in a wide range of subjects with the objective of a career in sustainable destination development.?

The programme is held at Uppsala University Campus Gotland, in the World Heritage city of Visby, one of the most appreciated tourist destinations in the Nordic countries.

Tourist destinations across the world face major challenges. With less visitors, their economies will be threatened; with more visitors, their social, cultural and ecological sustainability will be threatened. How can visits become sustainable? What is required to achieve sustainable visitor locations, and how can we ensure they will remain this way? The Master Programme in Sustainable Destination Development is a new programme aimed at those of you who want to develop cross-border, international key competencies in this field.

Career?

The tourism sector contributes with nine percent of the world GDP, and is continuously growing. The tourism sector is becoming more important outside the industrial world and therefore increasingly crucial to the development of the world as a whole. However, the tourism sector is also facing more and more serious sustainability challenges, socially, ecologically and economically. There is thus great need for the competences you get from the Master Programme in Sustainable Destination Development.

This programme prepares you to work on sustainability issues in the tourism sector in regions across the world, at destination companies, within the private tourism sector or as an entrepreneur. You can choose a career focused on development, strategy and management, business development, sustainability and CSR, and innovation in both the private and public sector.? You will learn how to push innovation processes targeted at the tourism sector, and you will become familiar with how to start and operate tourism enterprises in any part of the world, especially in tourist-intensive regions.