Tourism and Hotel Management

GENERAL INFORMATİON :
Tourism and Hotel Management Program started education in our school in 1994-1995.  Our school consists of two blocks of 8800M2 indoors and a large designed wooden garden of 22000m2 . Our program has 75M2 Food-and-Beverage Service Area and Housekeeping Application Rooms. And also it has a computer lab with  40 computers to give the Hotel Automation Programs Training. In the 2013-2014 academic year  all academic units of our university started using the credit system based on workload to make the students graduate . This system called EuropeanCredit Transfer System (ECTS, EuropeanCredit Transfer and Accumulation System ECTS)is student-centered and based on students’ workload.ECTS is a system all of the studies (theoreticalcourse, practice, seminar, individualstudy, exams, assignmentsetc.)made by a student to be successful in a class.In addition, through the process of  BOLOGNA , which aims to create a European Higher Education Area, the members of European  Union aim to evaluate the Higher  Education Institutions   of qualifications and to create a common quality understanding throughout Europe. Our program was passed to ‘3 + 1 Vocational Practice Training Program’  aiming to cooperate with vocational schools and related industrial organizations in 2018_2019 with the decision taken by our university.

THE PROGRAM'S AİM:
The tourism sector is in a continuous and dynamic development due to the rapidly- changing market and competitive conditions at the global level. Because of these characteristics, tourism sector draws close attention of other countries as a strategic sector and special planning is made by states for this sector. Our country, which has historical, geographical and culturally important tourism potential, will be able to get more share from the world tourism market with good planning and organizations. In the future due to the increase in accommodation and tourism enterprises, the need for trained staff in the sector will increase; it aims to train qualified manpower in tourism and hospitality sectors (accommodation, food and beverages, etc.), who can take part in service production processes, master of basic knowledge required in the field, assist in management or open and operate business in his own name. It aims to provide appropriate training to be able to meet the increasing expectations of the rapidly developing tourism sector, to be able to produce innovations against to  progressive, modern, intense demand and competition, to adopt the principle of  learning all life long, to be qualified individuals.

WORKING AREAS FOR GRADUATED ONES
Students graduated from the Tourism and Hospitality Program with a wide range of job opportunities are generally employed in the private and public sectors related to the firms producing goods / services in the tourism industry. Some areas where graduates can work are examplified below;

• In the departments of frontdesk, housekeeping, kitchen, service, bar, purchasing, marketing and sales, human-resources, accounting etc.  of international and national accommodation establishments
• In the kitchen, service, bar, purchasing, marketing and sales departments of food-and-beverage businesses,
• In the travel agencies’ departments of booking, operating, ticketing, accounting and so on.
• In various positions of airline companies' ground handling services,
• In various transport companies,
• In congress and fair organizations,
• In hospitals’ bed and food-and-beverage services ,
• In tourism information centers.

In addition, graduated ones will be able to provide high quality and professional service in the establishments which they will establish in the sector.