Study location	Italy, Padua
Type	Master's degree, full-time
Nominal duration	2 years (120 ECTS)
Study language	Italian
Awards	(Laurea magistrale in Turismo, Cultura, Sostenibilità)
Course code	SU2593/000ZZ/2021

Tuition fee	€2,642 per year For more information please visit: www.unipd.it/en/tuition-fees
Application fee	€30 one-time This fee is non-refundable.
Deposit	€204 one-time In order to accept your place at the University of Padua, the payment of the admission fee is required. This fee is non-refundable.

Entry qualification

Bachelor diploma (or equivalent) A minimum three-year undergraduate degree (or equivalent) is required with proven skills in Tourism Sciences OR in History of Art, Archaeology, Public Law, Management. Please verify country-based specific entry title requirements at the following link. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. You can often get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. You must take the original entry qualification documents with you when you finally go to the university. If you are admitted to the degree course, you will have to submit other documents including original and translated/legalised copies of your previous qualifications, etc. No legalised documents are required at application stage.

Language requirements	English B1 Level (CEFR) or higher Knowledge of English language can be proved by: presenting an official certificate self-declare of having passed a university-level English language exam of B1 level or higher. Native English speakers or students having attended a secondary school or a degree programme fully taught in English, are exepmted from presenting any language certification

Other requirements	Specific requirements for Non-EU applicants: Italian – B2 Level (CEFR) or equivalent: please check out this link for the full list of accepted certificates, minimum scores and exemptions Available places for non-European candidates residing outside Italy: 15

More information	unipd.it/..21&key=SU2593&tipo=LM&scuola=SU

Overview

The degree programme aims at training professionals with a solid background on material, immaterial and landscape heritage, with the competences to analyse their potentialities and to contextualise them in historical and territorial terms and thus to design and develop a quality tourism offer. Additionally it includes a deep knowledge on economic, geographic and social sciences in order to promote a sustainable tourism. A third teaching area envisages technical and technological disciplines, applied to data analysis and new media to forecast trends in tourism and the economical sustainability of the toursim offers in the medium and long term.

Career opportunities

The target job position is a professional expert in the study and design of a tourism offer, with a focus on valorisation of cultural and environmental resources in full respect of the principles for a sustainable tourism, as expressed by the national and regional guidelines of the strategic plans for tourism. Graduate students shall hold communication and promotion competences and shall be able to cooperate and coordinate the different local realities of a destination, by organising promotion campaigns, by mining and understanding tourism data and by exploiting new technologies.

A graduate in Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Sustainability can apply for a PhD course in History, Criticism and Conservation of Cultural Heritage.