Tourism and Recreation at WSB Merito University in Warsaw is a six-semester first-cycle programme taught in English, offered full-time with hybrid delivery. It is meant for school-leavers who picture themselves running hotels, planning events or putting together travel offers.
You learn to manage tourism companies, organise events and recreational activities, and draw up development strategies for tourism organisations. You also practise preparing tourist offers for very different groups of customers and promoting them through social media. The plan includes the fundamentals of tourism, recreation and the hotel industry, the economics of tourism and recreation, ecology and environmental protection, customer service, first aid and the organisation of leisure time. In class you work with software used in the industry: Amadeus, MerlinX and KWHotel.
You choose one of two specialisations: Ecotourism or International Tourism. Specialisation classes, listed for the programme as a whole, include:
Study visits take you out of the classroom. Together with cooperation with local companies, they give you practical experience of how tourism is organised, and the degree ends with a team diploma project defended before a committee.
Graduates can work as managers in hotels or tourism firms, where they organise events and recreational activities, or sell and design offers in travel agencies.
Other routes lead to tourism marketing, to organising incentive events and business trips, to firms focused on ecotourism and sustainable tourism, and to guiding or animating groups of travellers.
Based on the programme pages at merito.pl.
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