Are you passionate about mountain tourism?
Are you drawn to the management, design and administration of touristic projects?
This Professional Degree is for you!
Tourism and Leisure Trades - Touristic Unit Management
ORIENTATION
- TM, Mountain Tourism
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
Train graduates capable of ensuring or participating in the management of various types of touristic units:
tourist offices, museums, thermal cure tourism, ecotourism, memorial sites, historical sites, etc., while providing them with good knowledge of how the mountain tourism sector operates.
Watch a video interview of the head of the course.
A PROFESSIONALISING COURSE
The Professional Degree is truly designed to promote professional integration. Below are some of the degree’s key aspects:
- 450 hours of training
- 30% of lessons dispensed by professionals
- Project-based pedagogy
- Tutored project
- Work placement
- Possible sandwich course
Initially created for quick integration on the job market, this professional degree enables students to find work with a Baccalaureat and a 3-year university degree. Thus, the primary aim of this degree is not the continuation of studies. However, under certain conditions, the subsequent pursuit of a Master’s degree or enrolling in a business school are also options.
WORK PLACEMENT
The end-of-studies work placement is carried out over 14 weeks and may be optionally extended to end on a date prior to the jury date. This work placement enables students to develop the knowledge and skills acquired at the IUT, to gain awareness of a socio-professional environment and to clarify their career prospects.
Possible international placement: watch the video of Emilie Majorel who performed her Professional Degree work placement in Greece.
orientation TM, Mountain Tourism
Related professions:
- Local tourism promotion manager
- Tourism officer
- Tourism and heritage promotion coordinator
- Tourist site promotion officer
- Tourism product assistant/manager
- Touristic service and product designer
- Guide
- Officer in charge of the performance and optimisation of tourist products
- Etc.
BCC*1 Basics |
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UE501 Harmonisation Written and oral expressionGeography (sites, territories, landscapes) History and heritage Introduction to tourism | 6 ECTS 80H | ||
UE 504 Cross-disciplinary management tools Economy and Tourism Law | 6ECTS 80H | ||
BCC2 Languages |
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UE 502 Modern language 1 English | 6ECTS 60H
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UE 503 Modern language 2 German or other: | 6ECTS 60H | ||
BCC3 Tourism |
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UE505 Touristic development toolsTouristic project | 6 ECTS 80H | ||
UE506 Mountain tourismMountain activities
| 6 ECTS 90H | ||
| TOTAL | 450H | ||
BCC4 Implementation |
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UE 507 Tutored project | 6ECTS 150H | ||
UE 508 Work placement 14 weeks, option to extend to end on a date prior to the jury date | UE 508 Sandwich course 34 weeks of work placement | 18ECTS | |
*BCC : Bloc de Connaissances et de Compétences Knowledge and Skill Unit
Knowledge and Skills acquired:
- BBC1 – BASICS: Mastering the basics of tourism and tourist management – UE501 and UE504
- BBC2 – LANGUAGES: Easy written and oral communication in English and in another 2nd language other than the student’s native language (German, Dutch preferred, French as a foreign language) – UE502 and UE503
- BBC3 – TOURISM: Knowledge of the tourism sector, master general and sectoral tourist development tools – UE505 and UE506
- BBC4 – IMPLEMENTATION Ability to integrate a touristic structure and contribute towards or lead touristic projects – UE507 and UE508
Tourism BTS (vocational training certificate), Commercial Unit Management, Negotiation and Customer Relations Digitisation, Managerial Action Support, Hotel-Restaurant Management, Nature management and protection BTSA (advanced agricultural technician certificate), etc.
2-year postgraduate diploma (or more) in History, Geography, Arts, Information & Communication, Literature, Applied Foreign Languages, Management, etc.
DUT (university technical degree) Marketing techniques, Corporate and administration management, Administrative and commercial organisation management, Multimedia and Internet Professions, Information & Communication, etc.
The Professional Degree is open to students with a 2-year postgraduate diploma.
Sandwich course
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Want to complete this professional degree as a sandwich course? This is an option and simultaneously offers a university diploma and on-the-ground training. During the course’s semesters, students/employees attend the IUT part-time for 16 weeks of course work and, work for their host company for the remainder.