This dynamic program focuses on travel advising, customer sales and service, flights and fares, group tour management, travel business operations, package holidays and hotel operations. Fanshawe College’s tourism course will also teach students world geography and the latest computer technology used in the industry, as well as skills in marketing, customer relations, promotion and social media.

Students will gain valuable experience with a co-op work term consisting of 420 hours of paid employment. Enjoy an (optional) international field study trip on a seven-night Caribbean cruise as well as local field trips and regular guest lecturers from the industry. In the final semester, students will complete an international group tour capstone project where they will create a business plan, marketing plan and presentation to launch the tour to classmates and peers and industry partners. Students also have the opportunity to participate in student mentoring through the Baxter Student Ambassador Program.

For further international experiences, students may apply to study abroad for a semester in Finland, Ireland or the Netherlands, or take advantage of pathway opportunities after graduation to complete a degree with one of the partner institutions including the Limerick Institute of Technology in Ireland