Tourism and Recreation - Master's degree

ABOUT PROGRAMME

The curriculum of the Tourism and Recreation programme at the Master’s level has been specifically designed to expand the knowledge gained during your Bachelor’s studies. You will gain new skills related to complex management – in tourism, recreation and sports, hospitality management and catering, as well as organising business events. You will be taught by long-time practitioners, renowned experts, and experienced lecturers, who will do everything to effectively combine theory and practice.

INTERNSHIP

Working in the tourism sector means working with other people, and requires necessary experience, which you will be able to gain during your studies, thanks to our vast choice of internships. Our careers office will help you do internships, both in Poland and abroad.

EXPERTISE

Studying at the Vistula School of Hospitality will provide you with the knowledge necessary, to quickly become an expert on tourism and recreation.

Studying Tourism and Recreation will enable you to expand your knowledge in one of four sub-majors, which are tailored to the needs of the job market.

List of obligatory classes

• Tourist region management
• Corporate social responsibility in tourism
• Globalism in tourism and recreation
• Leisure time sociology
• Leisure time consumption problems
• Human resources management
• Information technologies in strategic management
• History of culture
• Introduction to managerial accounting
• Methodology of scientific research
• Quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Intellectual property protection
• Foreign language
• Occupational safety
• Library education
• MA seminar

New international curriculum for Tourism and Recreation – Master’s programme

The aim of the project is to develop and implement a new international curriculum for the Tourism and Recreation programme, as well as improving the accessibility of innovative knowledge, which serves to elevate competencies to a level which meets the needs of the economy, job market, and society.

The new international curriculum for Tourism and Recreation has been designed, based on leading European and global curricula, in collaboration with our international tourism and recreation teaching faculty. The project encompasses the above-mentioned programme exclusively (one study cycle of 2 years) and will be implemented entirely in English.

Starting in October, our internationalised Tourism and Recreation programme offers four managerial sub-majors: hotel management, event management, sports management, and gastronomy management. These elements have each been developed in collaboration with an international teaching faculty, in accordance with the latest trends in higher education. Our faculty members include Dr. Christos Anagnostopoulos of Molde University College in Norway, and Dr. Alana K. Dillette of San Diego State University.

In addition to the above-mentioned benefits, students of the internationalised Tourism and Recreation project will participate in two summer schools. A number of those internship programmes include scholarships covering tuition or the costs of living.

The project provides for 40 students: 30 foreign and 10 Polish. The group will be comprised of 50% women and 50% men.