Choose Your Path to an Exciting Career
From destination planning and development to hospitality operations, your career starts with your education in the Mount’s Tourism and Hospitality Management Program. Career Services is available to help you start your career path.
Tourism and hospitality is a global business with new destinations and new properties being developed continually. There are even new tourism categories being introduced, including eco-tourism and extreme adventure tourism. It is a vibrant, diverse field.
Remember, in Nova Scotia alone, tourism is a $1 billion a year industry. Imagine all the other tourism destinations in Canada and around the world and you’ll see an endless array of possible career paths.
It all starts with your tourism and hospitality education at Mount Saint Vincent University!
Where will your career take you?
Here are some tourism-specific sites where you can learn more about tourism careers:
- Tourism HR Canada
- Tourism Nova Scotia
- Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia
- Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia
- Restaurants Canada
- Hotel Association of Canada
- Hotel Association of Nova Scotia
- Tourism Industry Association of Canada
Did you know that our Bachelor of Tourism and Hospitality Management program is accredited by Tourism HR Canada as a SMART+ Program. This national accreditation is a recognition that our program is among a select few which meets or exceeds industry standards and demonstrates best practices in program development and delivery, review and improvement and outcomes measurement which provides the type of graduates that will be integral to growing Canada’s tourism sector by providing quality professionals to the sector. Our program is standards-based, measurable, adaptable responsive and tourism-focused.
You can receive a free Tourism HR Canada membership upon graduation: Graduates interested in signing up for a free membership should contact info@Tourismhr.ca.
You can receive a discount on Emerit certification and training upon graduation: A 15% discount is offered to graduates of a SMART+ Program. Graduating students can contact info@Emerit.ca to request a unique code, which will allow them to redeem the applicable discount on one or one set of purchases. Graduates may request a code more than once. Emerit products can be viewed here: Emerit.ca.
Still not sure the Tourism and Hospitality Management program is a good fit for you?
This might help you decided: What can I do with my degree?
Not quite what you were looking for? Maybe our Business Administration program is?
