Master Tourisme - parcours Management des Destinations et des Opérateurs Touristiques (MDOT) at Université de Perpignan Via Domitia

The MDOT pathway builds operational and reflexive skills and trains managers able to adapt to societal change in tourism (digitalisation, technology, sustainable visitor-flow management, CSR), with a 4 to 6 month professional immersion and research support from the CRESEM Ressources et Territoires axis. Part of the Département Management du tourisme of the IAE of Perpignan (Qualicert-certified, member of IAE France), labelled Formation d'Excellence au Tourisme (CFET). The Master Tourisme has a common M1 and a specialisation in M2.

Faculty: Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE)  |  Duration: 2 years (4 semesters, 120 ECTS)  |  Study mode: full-time or work-study; taught in French with English, Spanish and Chinese  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Perpignan, Occitanie, France

What you will study

24 months: 440 hours in M1 and 372 hours in M2; research dissertation or a 4 to 6 month placement in France or abroad; English, Spanish and Chinese. Skills: understanding the tourism environment and client expectations, socio-economic, legal and tax environment, running a tourism company and steering a tourism development project, team motivation, IT management tools, responsible management. Six-month insertion 85%; success 96% (100% for the Henan Normal University cohort).

Career pathways

Marketing and communication manager or yield or revenue manager in hotels, tourism consultant, travel-agency or tour-operator product manager, territorial development project manager and e-tourism officer in destination management organisations, accommodation manager, deputy hotel director, study officer, web-marketing manager; doctorate in ED 544.

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