Time: Students can start their studies approximately within a week after enrolling on this course. The estimated time for completing this course is two (2) months. Notice that the first nonstop start is on 21 January 2025.
Please notice that Xamk’s lecturers do not assess completed courses nor enter the course assessments in Xamk’s record of credits (Peppi) during their non-teaching periods. Completed courses will not be assessed between 2 June and 17 August 2025.
Place: Online studies
Extent: 5 ECTS credits
Target group: Everyone interested in the topic
Please notice that from September 1, 2024 onwards, only students with a Finnish social security number (i.e. a personal identity code) can start their studies on Xamk Pulse’s courses. You can read more here.
Course is completed independently.
Credited in degree at Xamk: All bachelor level degrees
Area of competence mentioned in Curriculum: Optional studies
Enrolment by: 26 October 2025. This is a nonstop start and students can start their studies approximately within a week after enrolling on this course.
Price: Free of charge
Note that you can enrol for Open UAS studies at the maximum of 50 ECTS credits per semester. One person’s enrolments exceeding 50 ECTS credits are deleted in the enrolment order. Paying attention to this is important when planning your studies.
Please also notice that
Xamk degree students cannot enrol on Open UAS courses.
Path students enrol at Peppi or Tuudo only for study courses included in path studies. Check your invitation letter for more detailed instructions for your own path study.
Learning outcomes:
You are able to:
- use the central concepts of domestic and international tourism,
- understand text material related to tourism,
- search information about the pull factors, major tourist areas, destinations and ways of travelling in Finland,
- analyze Finnish nature and culture as a basis of experience tourism product development for international market,
- describe the structure of tourism business and traveler streams arriving to and leaving from Finland,
- work in an international team in English.
Contents and methods:
- What are the central concepts of domestic and international tourism in English?
- Which elements of Finnish nature and culture could be used as basis of experience tourism product for international market?
- What are the pull factors, major tourist areas, destinations, ways of travelling and special features of tourism in Finland?
- What is the structure of tourism business and what are the traveller streams arriving to and leaving from Finland?
- How do you work in an international team?
The student can proceed from tasks to task independently, there are no certain deadlines. All tasks has to be made by the ending date of the course.
The course covers 5 ECTS credits, totalling 135 hours of student work. The number of hours is theoretical and varies according to student effort.
Study material:
All material will be provided by the lecturer and it is in Learn-platform. No live lectures or group work.
Assessment: Diffrent type of tests. To pass the tests 80% must be correct.
Assessment grade: 1-5
This course has been a part of Xamk Pulse’s ‘Diploma of Higher Education in Tourism and Service Business Management’.
The Transcript of records will be delivered automatically by email in PDF form. You can read more about the The Transcript of records on: Information on Open UAS, Xamk Pulse studies.
This course is based on the curricula of Xamk's degree programmes and the Finnish credits are fully compatible with the ECTS.
Additional information on enrolment:
Xamk Pulse, email: openstudies@xamk.fi.
Terms of cancellation:
If you are not able to participate in the course, please let us know as soon as possible by email openstudies@xamk.fi.
Before the course starts, you'll receive an invitation by email to this course.
Please note that there can be changes in the course details in terms of the timetable and teachers, for example.
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences is audited by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC).