MASTER OF ADVENTURE TOURISM STUDIES (MATS)

Program overview
The Master of Adventure Tourism Studies (MATS) is a 4 semester (2 years) course of 73 credits. The course focuses on imparting professional skills and knowledge to the students, enabling them to advance their careers in mountain and adventure tourism fi elds. It specifies mountain and adventure tourism management knowledge to meet professional standards and compete nationally and globally.
It focuses:

• building up professional skills and integrate knowledge of the dynamics of adventure tourism, mountain science and mountaineering tourism management;
• fulfilling the need for skilled and expert human resources to meet the scope of mountain and adventure tourism sectors;
• enhancing and strengthen the graduates to pursue entrepreneurial values in adventure tourism and leadership development in mountain tourism;
• build up professionalism in adventure and mountain research studies, and enable them to be leaders in the study and researchin national and international sectors of adventure and mountain tourism management.