When people travel to enjoy natural beauty, to see animals and plants, to visit historical sites, to experience cultures different from their own, to relive their own heritage that is nature and heritage tourism. Nature and heritage tourism combines travel, enjoyment, and learning.
Tourism is now the largest single economic activity in the world, and continues to grow.
You can work as a tour guide or you may work in planning, development, administration, or marketing. You may work for state or federal agencies such as the National Park Service. The largest opportunity now is with tour outfitters and cruise lines. Your Nature and Heritage Tourism advisor will help you tailor a curriculum that coordinates with your major and prepares you to enter the nature and heritage tourism profession with a solid foundation of skills and fundamental concepts. Please see the curriculum below.