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Our tourism studies program includes courses
devoted to the academic study of tourism,
supplemented by courses in business and
economics. You will have the opportunity to
interact with tourism practitioners and to
understand the challenges and issues they face.
You will investigate tourism development issues
relating to resource sensitivity and cultural integrity.
You will explore environmental impacts within a
social, cultural, economic and political context.
The skills you acquire through this program will
be transferable beyond provincial borders, and
will provide you with strengths in both creative and
analytical thinking and putting that theory into action
– requirements for leadership in the tourism industry.
TOURISM
TRENDS:
Worldwide, tourism employs
more people than any other
single industrial sector. It is
Canada’s fourth-ranked export industry. Our
tourism studies program allows students and
faculty to engage in emerging and internationally
acclaimed tourism initiatives on the province’s west
coast, such as the Bonne Bay Marine Station,
Gros Morne Theatre Festival and the L’Anse aux
Meadows and Red Bay Historic Sites of Canada.
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www.grenfell.mun.ca/tourism
Lexie Parsons should know a thing or two about the province’s natural
beauty – the tourism studies student grew up in Norris Point, surrounded by
Gros Morne National Park. But it wasn’t until she began the tourism studies
program that she began to realize exactly how big a role Newfoundland and
Labrador’s attractions really play. “Grenfell’s tourism studies program has
given me a global perspective on the environment I grew up in and took
for granted,” she says. “I have become more aware of its importance to
our society both environmentally and economically.”