Exchange Programme

Tourism and Leisure Management

Mechelen

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Tourism and Leisure Management

Make a living from your lifestyle

  • The world is your playground and every horizon, an invitation to go further.
  • Turn your passion for travel into a genuine profession.
  • Get ready for an inspiring international career in leisure and business travel.
  • Gear yourself up with the knowledge and skills you need to build life-changing experiences, even in today’s challenging context.
  • Learn how to apply disruptive business models and innovativemarketing and distribution channels to create new opportunities.
  • Discover solutions to reduce tourism’s social and environmental impact.
  • Gain a competitive advantage on the job market.

Practical information

  • Where

    On campus

  • Conditions

    You must be studying at one of our partner institutions. You must be nominated by your home coordinator and accepted by the exchange programme at Thomas More (see admission procedure for exchange students).

  • Language requirements

    English B2

  • Erasmus code

    B MECHELE14

Programme

The tourism and leisure industry are one of the most exciting and fastest-growing sectors: new markets, new concepts, new trends and a growing demand for sustainable tourism, hospitality and travel offerings. This programme combines business acumen, tourism development, and languages together with a diverse set of fundamental tourism & hospitality courses. We encourage our students to look at the industry from an interrelated perspective touching on leisure tourism concepts, business travel concepts and hospitality concepts.
We advise students to choose courses for approx.. 30 ECTS per semester.

Please read the prerequisites of every course carefully before applying.
You can find detailed information by clicking on the course. Thomas More remains the right to change the learning agreement upon arrival if the student doesn’t meet the requirements to enter the course.
Language courses: exchange students must include in their application a document stating their actual level of the chosen language.
The combination of courses from different phases can be restricted by planning issues.

The academic year in a nutshell

Below you can find an overview of the courses (under reservation of changes), with the number of credits per course. Credits express how many hours you need on average to process the subject matter (incl. lessons). Count about 25 to 30 hours for 1 study credit. 

  • We have explained the most important courses in a blue tooltip.  
  • The combination of courses can be restricted by planning issues and needs to be communicated beforehand.
  • Courses marked with a * are offered fully online. This means you don't have to physically come to Belgium to take these courses.
  • Would you like to know the detailed content of each subject? Check the programme guide.
  • Language courses: exchange students must include in their application a document stating their actual level of the chosen language.
OPO code ECTS Autumn Spring
Compulsory general courses
Marketing Fundamentals YB1281 3 x
Sales YB1001 3 x
Business Fundamentals YB1316 3 x
Social Media YB1131 3 x
Corporate Social Responsibility YB1319 3 x
Intercultural Communication YR0129 3 x
Nederlands 1( vroegere Survival Dutch) YR0118 3 x
Intercultural Communication YE0361 3 x
Business communication topics YP0604 3 x
Business Analytics YB1000 3 x
Sales Management YB1149 3 x
Business Intelligence Fundamentals YB1006 3 x
Management Skills YB1056 3 x
Nederlands 1 YR0381 3 x
Package 1 - ITL
Tourism Destinations YE0379 3 x
Travel Accommodations YE0360 3 x
Tourism Fundamentals YE0323 3 x
Business Travel Fundamentals YE0394 3 x
Culture & Art Topics YE0324 3 x
Hospitality Basics YE0380 3 x
Package 2 - ITL
Design thinking in tourism YE0375 3 x
International tourism project YE0339 3 x
Aviation lab YE0182 3 x
Travel Technology YE0398 3 x
Trends in Tourism YE0374 3 x
Web Content & Design YE0447 3 x
Package 3 - ITL
Tourism Research YE0364 3 x
OPO code ECTS Autumn Spring
E-tourism YE0376 3 x
Sustainable Tourism Development YE0395 3 x
Other Electives
Regional focus - North America YR0555 3 x
Regional focus - Latin America YR0549 3 x
Regional focus - Europe YR0546 3 x
Regional focus - Africa YR0540 3 x
Regional focus - Asia YR0543 3 x
Regional focus - Middle East YR0552 3 x
Languages Electives x
Chinese 1 YB1060 3 x
Chinese 2 YB1061 3 x
Chinese 3 YB1062 3 x
Deutsch 1 YB1063 3 x
Deutsch 2 YE0183 3 x
Deutsch 2 YB1064 3 x
Deutsch 3 YO0238 3 x
Español 1 YB1066 3 x
Español 2 YE0335 3 x
Espanol 2 YB1067 3 x
Español 3 YB0766 3 x
Español 3 YB1068 3 x
Français débutant 1 YE0441 3 x
Français débutant 2 YB1070 3 x
Français débutant 2 YB0665 3 x
Français débutant 3 YB1259 3 x
Français débutant 3 YB1071 3 x
Dutch A1 YR0609 3 x
Dutch A2 YE0388 3 x
Dutch A2 YE0440 3 x

Period

Start date

End date

In case of illness

 Grades
JANUARY +/-11JAN +/-30JUN +/-29/30JAN 04FEB

JUNE

 31MAY 19JUN 18/19JAN 30JUN

RESITS AUGUST

 +/-16AUG 03SEP 02/03SEP 09SEP

 

The tourism and leisure industry are one of the most exciting and fastest-growing sectors: new markets, new concepts, new trends and a growing demand for sustainable tourism, hospitality and travel offerings. This programme combines business acumen, tourism development, and languages together with a diverse set of fundamental tourism & hospitality courses. We encourage our students to look at the industry from an interrelated perspective touching on leisure tourism concepts, business travel concepts and hospitality concepts.
We advise students to choose courses for approx.. 30 ECTS per semester.

Please read the prerequisites of every course carefully before applying.
You can find detailed information by clicking on the course. Thomas More remains the right to change the learning agreement upon arrival if the student doesn’t meet the requirements to enter the course.
Language courses: exchange students must include in their application a document stating their actual level of the chosen language.
The combination of courses from different phases can be restricted by planning issues.

The academic year in a nutshell

Below you can find an overview of the courses (under reservation of changes), with the number of credits per course. Credits express how many hours you need on average to process the subject matter (incl. lessons). Count about 25 to 30 hours for 1 study credit. 

  • We have explained the most important courses in a blue tooltip.  
  • The combination of courses can be restricted by planning issues and needs to be communicated beforehand.
  • Courses marked with a * are offered fully online. This means you don't have to physically come to Belgium to take these courses.
  • Would you like to know the detailed content of each subject? Check the programme guide.
  • Language courses: exchange students must include in their application a document stating their actual level of the chosen language.
OPO code ECTS Autumn Spring
Compulsory general courses
Marketing Fundamentals YB1281 3 X
Sales YB1001 3 X
Business Fundamentals YB1316 3 X
Social Media YB1131 3 X
Corporate Social Responsibility YB1319 3 X
Intercultural Communication YR0129 3 X
Nederlands 1 YR0118 3 X
Intercultural Communication YE0361 3 X
Business communication topics YP0604 3 X
Business Analytics YB1000 3 X
Sales Management YB1149 3 X
Business Intelligence Fundamentals YB1006 3 X
Management Skills YB1056 3 X
Nederlands 1 YR0381 3 X
Package 1 - ITL
Tourism Destinations YE0379 3 X
Travel Accommodations YE0360 3 X
Tourism Fundamentals YE0323 3 X
Business Travel Fundamentals YE0394 3 X
Culture & Art Topics YE0324 3 X
Hospitality Basics YE0380 3 X
Package 2 - ITL
Design thinking in tourism YE0375 3 X
International tourism project YE0339 3 X
Aviation lab YE0182 3 X
Travel Technology YE0398 3 X
Trends in Tourism YE0374 3 X
Web Content & Design YE0447 3 X
Package 3 - ITL
Tourism Research YE0364 3 X
E-tourism YE0376 3 X
OPO code ECTS Autumn Spring
Sustainable Tourism Development YE0395 3 X
Online Electives
Regional focus - North America YR0555 3 X
Regional focus - Latin America YR0549 3 X
Regional focus - Europe YR0546 3 X
Regional focus - Africa YR0540 3 X
Regional focus - Asia YR0543 3 X
Regional focus - Middle East YR0552 3 X
Hotel Operations YE0429 3 X
Hotel Operations YE0430 3 X
Languages Electives
Chinese 1 YB1060 3 X
Chinese 2 YB1061 3 X
Chinese 3 YB1062 3 X
Deutsch 1 YB1063 3 X
Deutsch 2 YE0183 3 X
Deutsch 2 YB1064 3 X
Deutsch 3 YO0238 3 X
Español 1 YB1066 3 X
Español 2 YE0335 3 X
Espanol 2 YB1067 3 X
Español 3 YB0766 3 X
Español 3 YB1068 3 X
Français débutant 1 YE0441 3 X
Français débutant 2 YB1070 3 X
Français débutant 2 YB0665 3 X
Français débutant 3 YB1259 3 X
Français débutant 3 YB1071 3 X
Dutch A1 YR0609 3 X
Dutch A2 YE0388 3 X
Dutch A2 YE0440 3 X

Eyecatchers

Room for business or language electives

This unique International Tourism and Leisure programme offers the opportunity to either enrol in business elective courses or language electives.

The choice is all yours.

Your future: Travel Consultant 3.0

The unprecedented challenge of COVID-19 has completely changed the travel industry and our programme is continuously evolving to ensure that you are fully prepared to become the Travel Consultant and Hospitality professional of Tomorrow.

Design thinking & Customer Centricity is the key skillset to your future

The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation in the travel industry & beyond. Besides the importance of integrating new technologies in tourism, it is a combination of having a genuine customer centric approach with applying design thinking to unique service and experience offerings, that will differentiate one business from another and play a major role in the success of this transformation. It is these skillsets that we trigger and put at the heart of our courses.

Got questions?

International Coordinator

Martine Michiels

For all your questions on the courses and Learning Agreements.

international.bu@thomasmore.be +32 15 36 91 58
International Office

Hannelore Vervoort

For all your questions on the application procedure & practical arrangements.

incoming@thomasmore.be +32 14 56 21 56

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