Master in Hospitality for Sustainable Tourism Development

This master's program aims to provide competencies and skills to tourism managers of the future to be able to transform locations into tourist destinations.

Tourism is changing and operators need innovative competencies to manage this challenging situation. Hospitality organizations, intended as all the operators that host and offer services to guests in a specific destination, understand the importance of destination management and marketing and search for managers with a multidisciplinary perspective able to solve problems and develop innovative strategies.

Therefore, the objective of the course is to prepare HSTD graduates to work as managers, entrepreneurs, and consultants in private and public organizations of the tourism sector, at the national and international levels, with a special focus on sustainability.

The three seats of the University of Insubria, Varese, Como, and Busto Arsizio, are located in the Lombardy region, in the northern part of Italy. We are a young and dynamic university, founded in 1998, that offers interdisciplinary education, quality services, and facilities and focuses on cutting-edge research to develop innovative solutions and technologies. We deeply care about our students and their dreams. We aim to broaden their horizons while helping them develop skills for the national and international job market.

Our Values

• Freedom: we are a laic and pluralist University free of ideological, political, and economic conditioning. We sustain scientific research freedom, we engage in the development of critical thinking and we believe in culture as having an essential role in the society's progress.
• Respect: we recognize the value of diversity and we offer the same opportunities to everybody without discrimination caused by race, gender, opinion, language, or religion. We consider students' success our main goal; we help them gain high-level knowledge, skills, and competencies and enter the job market.
• Excellence: we rely on the excellence of our teachers and our staff to offer our students high-quality education and facilities, to obtain brilliant results in research both on the national and international stage. We promote the development of high-level collaborations and the inter-disciplinarity of research projects.
• Motivation and merit: we reward our students for their commitment and for their capability in building the future. We promote the permanent education of our staff to constantly improve the quality of our University.

Our Vision

Developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes today for the job of tomorrow

Our Mission

High-quality education and high-quality facilities in a student-friendly environment, combined with high-level research performed by international groups to develop innovative technology and solutions

Our Goals

• High-quality education to develop key competencies for entering the national and international job market
• Top-level research in national and international groups and in inter-disciplinary fields
• Third mission activities to facilitate our engagement with society, industry, schools