Welcome to Flinders Tourism

"Completing the Tourism degree (and the completion of Honours) has given me the theoretical and practical knowledge to enter into a job that I could only ever have dreamt about having first year out of uni. The broad areas of study let me scope out my specific interests and then focus on these through research projects and industry placement opportunities." 
Shannan Perry, Tourism Development Officer, South Australian Tourism Commission

Welcome to the Flinders Tourism website! The site is under construction at the moment so our apologies for the gaps. Please come back and visit us as we get a whole bunch of new information up online for you. If you have any suggestions for things you would .like to see on the website please contact Steve at steve.brown@flinders.edu.au

In the meantime, you need to know that we have a whole suite of tourism programs at Flinders University for you to get involved with ranging from Professional Development (non-degree), Undergraduate (Bachelor of International Tourism) and Postgraduate (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Masters and PhD).
Tourism is a rapidly expanding service industry which reflects the increasing mobility of the world's population. These travellers want more than a generic mass market experience and have high expectations about the level of service and information they will receive. That means tourism has become a more sophisticated business. It offers many more job opportunities, but also seeks professionals who understand the mechanics of the industry and the phenomenon of tourism and are able to interpret and highlight a destination's distinctive features.

Our programs aim to develop the analytical and practical skills needed by students in tourism worldwide, to respond to the growing market demand for high quality, sustainable tourism development and management. It examines the issues, trends and approaches in the global tourism industry. Our objective is to promote a critical and theoretical understanding of tourism as a global phenomenon and to apply that understanding to international, national, regional and local circumstances by examining diverse industry practices in a range of contexts. Knowledge and skills-orientated tourism business practices in the functioning of the tourism industry globally form a core component of the program.

Tourism at Flinders has strong links to the tourism industry and this is reflected in the course content as students undertake a number of core topics which are industry focused, including an industry practicum and industry-linked research. This program was created to meet the needs of the international tourism industry. Industry support for Flinders tourism programs is very strong, with employers regularly contacting us to advise us of positions about to become vacant and to enquire about the availability of suitable candidates.

For further information, please click onto the Contact Us link at left and email or call us. “They’re the best courses in the university!”

“The only disappointment I experienced with the postgraduate course was that it wasn’t available twenty years ago when I started in the industry. I can highly recommend it to those just beginning, as well as those already in mid-career, as it provides invaluable tools and new insights into working as an event professional.”
Teena Munn, General Manager / Executive Producer, Windmill Performing Arts