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The HSTHI runs bachelor's programmes in the field of tourism and
recreation
THE AIM
Our school assures a high level of teaching based on modern and checked
teaching methods. This produces highly qualified specialists - people
who can make accurate decisions quickly, who can skillfully lead a team
of people, who have a high self-esteem and who can meet the competitive
requirements on the demanding employment market.
SPECIALITIES
The HSTHI educates students in the following specialties:
Hotel Trade and Catering Management
The graduates of this specialty will be sought - after specialists in
hotel and catering industries. They will acquire knowledge in the
fields of economics, budgeting, management and marketing which will be
a key to professional success.
The graduates have a command of at least two foreign languages
(European Union).
Tourist Enterprise Management
The graduates of this speciality will have the skills to solve
various problems concerning the functioning of tourist business in
conditions of a market economy. They will possess the knowledge of
tourism business, its connections with environment, functions and
directions of development. They will be able to diagnose and design
functional models of a tourism business. The graduates will know how to
research the effectiveness of tourism business models. They will
also be able to build strategies and strategic analyses of an
enterprise.
Marketing of Services
The graduates of this speciality have a good knowledge of a range
of functions and conditions of development of retail enterprises.
Moreover, the graduates can speak at least two foreign languages.
Computer Systems in Tourism
The main aim of this speciality is to provide the students with
essential knowledge to get a job as computer scientists with different
tourist enterprises (both as a programmer and network manager
(administrator). The subjects available on the syllabus teach students
the skills necessary for projecting information systems and managing
various programming projects.
International Tourism
The graduates of this specialization will be prepared to work in the
field of international tourism services. They will acquire the
knowledge of the specificity of international tourism market: supply
and demand, conditions of development of this market, extent and the
dimensional structure of international tourism. The graduates will also
have a good knowledge of the profits brought by development of
international tourism. One of the main aims of this specialization is
to provide students with essential skills to get a job in international
tourism enterprises and institutions, travel agencies, tourism offices
and tourism organizations. The graduates can also run their own
enterprises specializing in outcoming and incoming
tourism.
Tourist Market of the European Union
This branch is designed for students who expect to get sufficient
qualifications for work in EU. Students are provided with knowledge of
the structure of EU institutions, their conditions, problems relating
to the EU tourism market, and life-styles of inhabitants of the EU.
The latter is the most likely area of future development of EU
tourism market.
Business Tourism
The graduates will have the knowledge of current business tourism as a
structure consisting of:
- business travel (connected with economic, trade or political activity)
- meetings such as government missions, congresses, conferences or
seminars,
- incentive tourism (financed by the employers to reward employees for
good results of their work),
- travels organized for present and potential customers, VIP-s, press
during prestigious events (sport, cultural, economic, etc.).
They will know present organizational, financial, economic or market
problems connected with the expansion of this dynamic kind of tourism.
For example: principles of organizing the congresses, conferences,
fairs, exhibitions, shows and incentive tourism; purchasing power in
business tourism, the financial basics of development of business
tourism, market of international meetings, new trends in business
tourism. The graduates will be prepared to work in tourism sector as
well as in all other sectors cooperating with tourism in the field of
organizing, creating and consuming the product of business tourism.
Agrobusiness-Agrotourism
The graduates will be prepared to set up and run their own business
especially in rural areas. They will be prepared to work in tourism and
local administration. The graduates will acquire the knowledge of rural
tourism, ecology, ecotourism, agrotourism, agrobusiness, local
administration, tourism development, using the financial resources from
UE.
Catering and Dietetics
Food is immensely important in everyone’s life.
The graduates of this speciality will have a good knowledge of
contemporary man’s food requirements. They will also possess
knowledge in the field of economics and finances, organization and
marketing of gastronomy and rational feeding. They will know
organization of feeding, food cycle as well as food preservation and
quality issues.
The graduates will be prepared to work in the field of catering, hotel
industry, old people’s homes, nursery schools etc. They could
also set up and run their own business.
SPA and Wellness Tourism
The graduates of this speciality will have general knowledge in the
field of health promotion and fitness, spa and wellness resorts’
management, customer services’ standards and feeding.
They will be prepared to work in the spa and wellness services’
sector, in spa management, rejuvenation and rehabilitation centers, as
well as run their own business related to spa and wellness tourism.
The programme of this speciality contains issues connected with tourism
in spa centers, national parks, techniques of new services’
organization directed at health improvement and fitness using natural
amenities.
The above specialities are chosen at the end of the first year
of study.
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND DURATION
- Part-time, 3 years (sessions are scheduled every second weekend).
- Full-time, 3 years (classes are scheduled from Monday to Friday).
Students who successfully complete their studies obtain a diploma of
higher education and a bachelor's degree in the field of their chosen
speciality. This education lets them apply for a master's programme in
HSTHI or in other universities.
On request, the HSTHI also issues diplomas in English or German.
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