Bachelor's Degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management. Department of Business Administration. Faculty of Business and Economics. Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki.

Description

Upon completing their studies, graduates acquire the necessary scientific and technological knowledge, along with skills and competences, with the purpose of professionally engaging with every field of the department's cognitive subjects, either as administrative executives of private and public businesses, or as self-employed. Specifically, the graduates of the Department are active in the following sectors:
- Administrative sector of the entire tourism business, of the body or organisation that applies modern scientific methods and practices to programming, organising, managing, and controlling, with the purpose of guiding, supervising and setting the context of operation of the productive complexes of the above units.
- Productive sector of logistics, where they are engaged with management (ordering, storage, preservation, and distribution) of materials and beverages for catering departments and units.
- Field of production, where they engage with the management of roofs, floors, food and beverages, conference areas, as well as with the departments of sports and customer recreation.
- Management of human resources of tourism businesses.
- Sector of marketing, where they engage with the creation, pricing, promotion (advertising, public relations, and promotion) and with the distribution of products of tourism businesses.
- Application of operational and international electronic systems for gathering, processing, and forwarding data and information related to tourism units.
- Programming, implementation, and control of the state design concerning tourism and the units of the tourism industry.
- Collective design and application of programmes for the development of various forms of tourism, along with the preparation of financial-technical studies for the creation and operation of tourism businesses.

Further Information

The Direction of Tourism and Hospitality Management aims to advance the dissemination of technological and scientific knowledge through theoretical and laboratory teaching, as well as through the development of these knowledge via applied research, with the purpose of providing students with the necessary assets for their scientific and professional career. In order to accomplish its mission, the Department, aims, among others, at the following:
- Application of new technological and educational teaching methods, with the purpose of being competitive and rendering its graduates competitive at a national and international environment.
- Communication of the Department with its financial and social environment, and specifically with the units and organisations of the tourism industry.
- Collaboration with other educational foreign and domestic departments with the purpose of exchanging students and establishing postgraduate studies, as well as partnerships for research purposes.
- Continuous reformation of the curriculum, in order to achieve vocational adjustability of graduates to modern operational and industry needs of tourism units and organisations.
- Rapid adjustment thereof to changing conditions in order to meet its educational, financial, and social purposes.

Relation To Employment

The professional rights of the graduates are specified by Presidential Decree under no. 356/8-6-1989.

Transitions

Access to this type of qualification have those who have completed at least the secondary education (level 4).
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 7 or 8.

Ways To Aquire

Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.