Increasing numbers of people around the world are spending a growing proportion of their leisure time and money on tourism related activities. It is widely acknowledged that tourism is a constitutive force assembling economic, cultural, social, political, technological, environmental and spatial processes, but also an entry point to improve our understanding of the social world and how it is transforming. The economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism services have grown dramatically in recent years, and these impacts are expected to become even more profound in the next decades. \n\nThe two-year MSc program Leisure, Tourism and Environment at Wageningen University & Research is a social-science program with a strong research focus. Students examine the rationale behind the transformation of certain locations into tourism destinations. The core of this program enables students to obtain in-depth knowledge and critical awareness of the role tourism plays in contemporary society, to understand the workings of different scientific paradigms and to appraise the relevance of a range of academic disciplines, to demonstrate the ability to complete a scientific research project independently, and to translate related outcomes into innovative approaches and tangible solutions for sustainable tourism development. \n\nConnected to the core of this program, students can choose between four thematic trajectories that each focus on a specific research domain, related societal questions and optional courses. The four themes are: \n\n*Tourism & Development:* \nThis trajectory discusses a number of fundamental issues related to tourism's potential for socio-economic, socio- cultural and environmental development and provide a conceptual foundation by examining theoretical frameworks from tourism studies and beyond for the study of these issues. \n\n*Tourism & Natural Resources:* \nThis trajectory discusses the dynamic interplay between tourism and natural resources, on related processes of environmental governance, and the contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches that assist in understanding and analyzing these dynamics. \n\n*Tourism & Global Change:* \nThis trajectory discusses travel and tourism mobilities alongside questions of immobility and exclusion, migration, transportation, mobility rights, crises and risks as well as virtual connectivity. \n\n*Tourism & Experiences:* \nThis trajectory discusses the complex and dynamic interplay of various place-making practices, related motivations for travel, and complex place-based experiences in tourism.