Varoon Nasa: Tourism Destination Management student looking for the Orange Carpet

Varoon Nasa

Varoon is a Master in Tourism Destination Management student from India. He’s currently writing his thesis and will be looking for a job in The Netherlands afterwards as part of the opportunities provided by the so-called Orange Carpet regulations. He shares some of his experiences in this short blogpost.

Studying in The Netherlands seemed a place so far away for a Bachelor student from India. Yet studying tourism was always my passion and I started researching for a good university with a competitive study program while finishing my last semester in my Bachelors in India. NHTV Breda came across as an interesting and esteemed university with professional credibility. The Master in Tourism Destination Management programme (TDM) enabled me to gain extensive theoretical knowledge which was later used effectively in our field research in Tasmania (Australia), Singapore and Bali. TDM is by far the only course which offers a student to work directly in the destination and explore the tourism environment first hand.

The Netherlands for me was the best choice while choosing a country to study as it gave me an opportunity to interact and study with people from all over the world. As a part of the orange carpet opportunities, The Netherlands offers international students the oppertunity one year after finishing the study to to look for a high skilled job. Currently I am working on my thesis with close contact from my supervisor, which in itself is a whole other experience from what we all were studying while on field research. Future plans would include finishing my thesis as soon as possible and working in Europe for some time and then returning to the place I call home India.