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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 [...]

TDM students @ DM Radio 107.2 FM on Bali

TDM students on Bali Radio
During the field trip 2010, TDM students interviewed Ratna Soebrata, who is a very active representative of the tourism industry on Bali. Besides her job at the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) on Bali as well as her own tour operating company and numerous other important tourism positions, Ratna is also [...]

Open evening at NHTV – 15 April 2010

[ April 15, 2010; 18:30 to 21:30. ]

Open evening on 15 April

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Time: 18.30 to 21.30 hrs

What can you expect?

On this open evening you can get acquainted with the study programmes offered by NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences. To find out which study programme suits you, you can attend presentations, ask questions to students, lecturers [...]

Open day at NHTV

[ March 13, 2010; 10:00 to 15:00. ] On Saturday 13 March 2010 from 10.00 a.m. till 15.00 p.m, the NHTV will open its doors so that you can get acquainted with the various study programmes offered by NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences.

This is a great opportunity to meet our lecturers as well as current students and get [...]

Come and see us at the Master fair in Utrecht (26-27 February 2010)

[ February 26, 2010 to February 27, 2010. February 26, 2010 to February 27, 2010. ] Representatives from the master programme in Tourism Destination Management will present at the Master fair in Utrecht. The fair is held on 26 and 27 February 2010 at Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

This would be a great opportunity to find out more about NHTV University and our Master programmes in particular! It is also possible [...]

Roundup of the latest ‘International Tourism Context’ articles

Photo credit: pedrosimoes7
As part of their TDM study programme, the master students at this moment are writing their own articles and contributing to debates on tourism destination management.
This is a roundup of their articles and we’d hereby like to offer you the opportunity to interact with the current master students and the TDM curriculum: [...]

The affects of climate change to Vietnam tourism

20 Oct 2009, Nina Nguyen on Climate change and destination tourism development
Climate change is known as global warming, ice melt, violent storms, drought, floods, extinction of species, etc, Vietnam potentially is one of the countries where climate change could have the most dramatic impact. Climate change in Vietnam would threat 2,000 miles of coastline in [...]

Destination Competitiveness in South Asia

Destination Competitiveness in South Asia.
25/10/09 Dina Kupryushina on consumer market trends and destination competitiveness
Tourism is undergoing through extremely difficult conditions as the international economy continue to deteriorate and Asia and the Pacific, being attractive and lucrative tourism regions in the world, are also strongly crushed with the impact of the global slowdown. As it was [...]

Gay Tourism in “non-gay-friendly” destinations

23-10-2009, Carla Flores, Market Trends and Destination Competitiveness
Over the last decade the gay market segment has been targeted more and more. The United States, Australia, South Africa and Europe have targeted gay travelers as a potential market generating a lot of revenues and positive exposure for a destination. But, in general, this is not the [...]

The Politics of Tourism

The Government has a role to play in tourism planning which is not limited to economic development and poverty reduction but includes building the nation’s image and identity (Chheang, 2009). Tourism is widely recognized as a major income earner for various nations and the government is generally required to take on an active role in [...]