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Europe’s first Master degree on hospitality and camping resort management. A multiple degree professional master’s programme in which you combine theory and practice, offered at the Universities in the Netherlands, Croatia and Spain.
The demand for outdoor hospitality accommodations is growing fast in Europe and requires highly qualified professionals who can manage the business well in cooperation with local authorities. That is why BUas, the University of Girona in Spain and the University of Rijeka in Croatia – have developed this new multiple degree master’s programme with a focus on strategic management of large scale camping resorts.
Questions?
Do you have any questions regarding this programme? Please send them to master-sohm@buas.nl or campmaster@fthm.hr.
In the first year of this English-taught Master Sustainable Outdoor Hospitality Management you will attend lectures at Breda University of Applied Sciences (in close cooperation with the Master of Tourism Destination Management)
Also in 2nd semester you will study at University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hosipitality Management in Opatija in Croatia. Furthermore, you will work on camping resorts in Croatia on sustainable business challenges in the fields of park design, stakeholder engagement, human resource management, concept design or strategic management.
In the second year you will move to the University of Girona (Spain) and deepen your academic and business management skills. The last 4th semester you will combine working as a trainee with a field research project and a thesis in a key outdoor hospitality region in Europe of your choice.
A few examples:
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The Master Sustainable Outdoor Hospitality Management is a two-year, full-time programme. The total study load is 120 ECTS credits. To give you an idea: 1 ECTS credit = approximately 28 – 30 hours of study.
We offer you a small-scale study environment. The number of students involved in this master’s programme is about 20 persons (65% international).
Students are eligible if they hold a bachelor’s degree (BA, BSc., BBA, B Com), for example in the fields of tourism, travel, hotel management, international business, management, economics, law, e-commerce, urban development, geography, social sciences or finance. Please check out the additional admission requirements.
You decided to apply for the Master Sustainable Outdoor Hospitality Management programme. Please ensure that you submit your application before the deadline:
*Please note, we recommend that you apply in time. What’s more, for EU/EEA students we suggest that they apply before 1 June, but preferably even sooner.
Application steps
You are to apply through Studielink, the application and enrolment portal provided by the Netherlands Ministry of Education.
With this registration you will be admitted to the full two-year programme, but during these two years you will have to complete additional registration details for each institution.
You can track the status of your application on your personal Studielink page and in the progress overview in My Online Application.
With this enrolment application you can be admitted for the full two-year programme, but during these two years you will have to fill in additional registration details for each institution.
Once you have submitted your Studielink enrolment application, you will receive an email inviting you to follow up on your Studielink enrolment application by applying in My Online Application.
In My Online Application you will be requested to answer additional questions (e.g. about your English proficiency) and to upload your application documents: CV, motivation letter, ID, your bachelor’s documents including transcript of records (or a transcript of records with you latest results / overview if you have yet to obtain your bachelor’s degree). You will also be requested to give the contact details of at least two references (one academic and one business reference). More information regarding these references will be provided to you in due time in My online application.
If your profile is considered to be suitable for the master’s programme, you will receive an invitation for an intake interview. In this invitation the intake interview dates and procedure will be explained clearly. In due course you will also be informed about whether or not you have been (conditionally) admitted to the programme.
In order to complete your enrolment, you need to confirm your digital authorisation or pay the BUas part of your tuition fee. Tuition fees at the partner Universities, have to be paid before the start of the semester in Croatia and Spain. More information about payment of tuition fee.
We will keep in tocuh
During the entire application, selection and enrolment procedure, we will keep in touch with you via email. Please make sure you read and respond to the instructions in time. You can track the status of your admission in My Online Application.
Have a virtual look and discover our campus, the building where you’ll be studying and what more the campus has to offer.
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Graduates of the Master Sustainable Outdoor Hospitality Management entitled to three degrees:
BUas is an institute in higher education with a strong on sustainable tourism, leisure and hospitality. It is partner of the Center of Expertise in Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality (www.celth.nl) and of the International Tourism Masters Network (www.itmn-tourismmasters.org). The Institute was founded as a tourism research institute in 1966 and currently conducts research in social impacts of tourism, sustainable transport and tourism and digitisation in tourism.
The Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management is Croatia’s only university institution which conducts study programs in the field of tourism, hospitality and sustaniable development on 2 undergraduate, 4 graduate and 4 doctoral level, as well as through a series of lifelong learning programs. The Faculty has established creative partnerships with private sector and civil society in order to respond to economic and social challenges with science-based solutions. As a part of th study programs, the Faculty offers courses in foreign languages, especially in English, and works continually on the strengthening of the international cooperation and on increasing student and teaching staff mobility.
The University of Girona is a public university with headquarters in the city of Girona, Spain. It was recognized as a university in 1991, as a result of the merger of several university studies centers in Girona attached to other universities. The university has three campuses and a Science and Technology Park. In the three campuses there are 8 faculty buildings (Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Tourism, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Sciences, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economics, Polytechnics School).
Project Acronym: CAMPMASTER
Project title: Development of european curriculum in the field of sustainable camping resort management
Project ID: KA203-E-1423370
Project duration: from 01.10.2020. until 30.09.2022.