The desire to create one's own business in a dynamic sector like tourism is attracting more and morestudents and young professionals. In a rapidly changing world, combining digitalization, the quest for meaning and a reinvented customer experience, starting a business in tourism is becoming a real opportunity. At Crews, we train the new generation in the dual skills of digital and tourism, while enabling them to transform their ideas into concrete, sustainable and inspiring projects.
With over 1.3 billion international tourists in 2023, according to the UNWTO, tourism accounts for almost 10% of global GDP. In France, the world's leading tourist destination, the sector accounts for over 7% of GDP and employs nearly 2 million people. It's a vast, constantly evolving ecosystem, offering a wide variety of niches to exploit: sustainable tourism, slow tourism, business tourism, local or experiential tourism...
Many students today are choosing to become auto-entrepreneurs to launch agile projects: concierge services, digital guides, specialized travel agencies, local experience platforms... Access to auto-entrepreneur status is quick and easy, and hybrid models combining digital and tourism are appealing to new generations.
Good to know: Crews' Digital & Tourism training courses prepare you to create your own project or innovate within an existing company, thanks to concrete projects such as intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship.
The status of micro-entrepreneur is ideal for getting started in the tourism sector: it allows you to test an idea without too much risk, with a simplified tax system. In 2024, over 2.5 million people in France were registered as auto-entrepreneurs, a growing number of them in tourism-related services.
Here are a few examples of projects launched by young tourism entrepreneurs:
In the Digital & TourismMaster program, you can deepen your business strategy and pitch your project in front of industry experts.
It's possible to be a student and an entrepreneur! Statutes such as the Statut National Étudiant-Entrepreneur (SNEE) provide personalized support, with an academic tutor and a professional mentor. At Crews, we makeentrepreneurship an integral part of our pedagogy, with concrete projects, pitch workshops and a logbook to track your progress.
Choosing Crews means choosing 100% online support and 100% professionalization. At Crews, we believe that flexibility is the key to success. Our tourism and digital training programs, available on an initial or sandwich basis, are designed for students who want to learn and test their skills, as well as for those who want to become entrepreneurs:
Our assets for future entrepreneurs:
Entrepreneurship in tourism is much more than a career choice: it's the desire to create value, to offer a new vision of travel, and to fulfill yourself through a meaningful project. Whether you're a student, a budding self-entrepreneur, or already involved in a project, entrepreneurship gives you a 360° vision of a digital and tourism strategy, and Crews can support you in your studies.
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