MBA Tourism Strategic Management

• Degree awarded: Professional Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA)
• Qualification awarded: Manager of enterprises and institutions
• Internship: Latvian or foreign tourism and hospitality companies, tourism attractions, and destination management organizations
• Study duration: 2 academic years
• Study language: in English

In the framework of the "Tourism Strategic Management" study program, you will learn how to reasonably discuss complex aspects of tourism management, develop corporate and institutional strategies in today's changing environment, find solutions to complex and unpredictable operating conditions of tourism industry companies, research, analyze and compare tourism destinations in Latvia and understand the interaction between tourism and other fields.

The Professional Master's Degree Program “Tourism Strategic Management” provides a broad knowledge base of tourism and hospitality management and provides a strategic perspective on global tourism developments. The study program is proud of its lecturers - outstanding industry practitioners representing tourism and related fields - hotel management, tourism policy planning at the national level, and restaurant business. During the study process, students develop viable strategies for the development of new tourist destinations that provide an opportunity to learn about strategic tourism planning in practice. Students gain invaluable insight into the development and trends of the global tourism industry by participating in the world's largest IT exhibition, ITB Berlin, which is also a valuable platform for international contacts.

Useful

• 50% of students come from countries which up to now you have introduced only by map. Now you have an opportunity to get acquainted with people, culture, and understanding of these countries!
• There have been around 1 billion international travels in the year 2014

Professional master's study program Strategic Management in Tourism has obtained the prestigious UNWTO – UN World Tourism Organization TedQual accreditation to the maximum possible term – four years, until the Year 2022.

Accreditation

Tourism programs have been awarded the prestigious UNWTO – United Nations World Tourism Organization TedQual accreditation. Turiba University is the only University in the Baltic States and Northern Europe that holds this prestigious accreditation.