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The MCom in Tourism programme gives graduates the opportunity to go on to further study at PhD level or embark on a non-academic career where the ability to undertake and/or interpret high quality research is a core component of their work.

The Masters of Commerce in Tourism (MCom) in Tourism programme:

  • Provides students with the opportunity to undertake multi- or inter-disciplinary supervised (normally by one supervisor) innovative research in tourism and related fields of inquiry
  • Offers students the opportunity to examine aspects of the phenomenon of tourism from social, cultural, commercial, environmental and/or scientific perspectives
  • Involves one year of full-time study (or equivalent) towards the completion of a research thesis (note: there are no taught papers component to this programme)
  • Is designed to develop students' research skills; incorporating their ability to engage with and critically examine theoretical and conceptual literature, methodologies, and data collection and analysis methods

Information for applicants

Applicants must be a graduate, normally with qualifications requiring a total of at least four years of tertiary study in tourism or a related discipline with an average grade of 75% (B+) or higher. As part of their degree all applicants should have completed a dissertation and gained a grade of at least 70% (B).

Applicants must meet the University postgraduate English language requirements, if their first language is not English. This must be organised prior to enrolling in the programme, though not necessarily at the time of application to the programme.

Please contact our Masters Coordinator to advise the Department of Tourism that you wish to apply, including the required information outlined below. Once you have been provisionally accepted to the programme, you will be required to complete the formal application process online (see below).

Email: tourism.masters@otago.ac.nz

Required information

All applicants will be required to include the following information which will be assessed by the Department.

  1. A curriculum vitae (CV).
  2. Grades from previous degree/s.
  3. Copy of dissertation from previous degree.
  4. A research proposal that is at least 2 pages long. This should outline the research you intend  to undertake.
    1. It should examine the aims of the research and ground them in the appropriate academic literature.
    2. It should also outline the methods to be used to collect the data necessary to meet the aims of the research.
    3. See the staff profile pages for research interests. As this research will be undertaken under the supervision of an academic member of staff, check staff research interests to ensure there is an overlapping of interests.

Regulations and application

Please visit the qualification page for information about regulations as well as how to apply.

Current research

Find out about current Masters Research in Tourism at Otago.

List of graduate research theses

Read abstracts for graduate Masters graduate research theses at Otago.

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