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.

How is the minor organized?
The minor consists of twenty-four semester hours, including six hours of required core courses and eighteen hours selected from a menu of courses from fourteen departments at Texas State. 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.

 What are the career opportunities?

You may work as a tour guide or in planning, development, administration, or marketing. You may work for state or federal agencies such as the National Park Service. The greatest opportunity now is with tour outfitters and cruise lines.