Professional Masters Degree in Tourism Strategic Management Turiba University, Latvia

The study program “Tourism Strategic Management” prepares students for work in the field all over the world. This is a great opportunity for students who see their career in an international environment. In this program you will gain strategic management and planning skills, and learn the regularities and techniques of forecasting. You will learn to analyze, study and forecast trends in the tourism and hospitality field in the Baltics and around the world.

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 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.

Educate and train master's students as individual businessmen, managers and leading specialists for work in the tourism and hospitality industry, who could using the knowledge, skills and competences acquired in the study process, promote the implementation of innovations by applying interdisciplinary solutions and a creative approach to tourism and hospitality industry development and would be able to implement activities for ensuring the world's sustainable and responsible development, both in the business environment and in tourist destinations