MSc International Sustainable Tourism is a master’s degree in tourism offered in collaboration with the University of Essex.

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The programme offers a wide range of knowledge and skills in the field of International Sustainable Tourism.

Tourism is an enduring industry that offers numerous worldwide career opportunities. Our course will give student a complete set of essential business and marketing skills, with the potential to excel in global tourism management positions.

The programme will enable students to become up to date with current progress in the field of International Sustainable Tourism and provide them with skills that will help them in their professional lives offering a specialised skill-set that can be applied in various fields.

The course intends to provide students with the knowledge required to understand and further develop tourism policies and practices in a global setting as well as to manage tourism development and enterprises in the direction of more sustainable practice.

  • Paid Internship at Domes Resorts, one of the largest hotel groups in Greece.
  • Postgraduate degree in collaboration with University of Essex (University of the Year 2018, UK).
  • Educational seminars and workshops.
  • Career Days.
  • Academic and Personal support.
  • Greek-language programme designed with international standards.
  • Research at BioSensors SmartLab, the College’s state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

  • Economics of Sustainable Tourism.
  • Strategic Management in Tourism.
  • Human Resource Management in Tourism & Hospitality.
  • Destination Management and Marketing.

  • Sustainable Tourism Development and Planning in an International Context.
  • Tourist Behaviour: Theory and Practice.
  • Sustainable Tourism, Environmental Ethics and Climate Change.
  • Culture, Heritage and Creativity in International Sustainable Tourism.

  • Research Methods.
  • Postgraduate Dissertation.

Business students will have access to the computing laboratories at all the College sites. For Athens, the Panepistimiou 17 building (3rd and 7th floor).

More precisely, the computing laboratories are fully equipped with computers, appropriate software, and projector, and allow for access to AOC VLE (Aegean Online) resources.

BioSensors SmartLab was added in the resources available to students and academics of Aegean College late in 2021 in collaboration with iMotions. Its main aim is to facilitate research in different areas such as Psychology, Education, Artificial Intelligence, Health Sciences, Business Management & Neuromarketing, Neuroscience and more.

Graduates in International Sustainable Tourism can pursue careers in various sectors due to the high demand in the Greek market for qualified professionals in the field of Tourism and Sustainable Development.