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Tourism and hotel management

Language of instruction

english, lithuanian

Qualification degree and (or) qualification to be awarded

Professional Bachelor of Business Management

Place of delivery

Kaunas, Pramonės pr. 20, LT-50468

Institution that has carried out assessment

Qualifications and Vocational Education and Training Development Centre

Institution that has performed accreditation, accreditation term

Studijų kokybės vertinimo centras, 1/17/2026

Data provided or updated (date)

5/3/2023

Order on accreditation

SV6-6
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General Description: Objective(s) of a study programme:
The study programme aims to train a tourism and hotel manager, able to conduct the functional activities of the companies in the sector; analyse and assess tourism business environment; develop and sell competitive tourism and hospitality products; apply professional knowledge; act independently and creatively in changing market conditions, and communicate professionally and responsibly in a multicultural business environment. Learning outcomes: 1. Able to apply the basic theories and principles of economics, management, and managing finance and other resources in professional activities. 2. Acts in accordance with the legislation governing company activities in the tourism and hospitality sector. 3. Applies the conceptions and principles of sustainable development and responsible business in professional activities. 4. Able to conduct research on the business environment and service market in the tourism sector applying the methods chosen; systemise and assess research findings. 5. Analyses the business environment, the changes taking place in it, innovations in the methods and technologies of providing tourism and hospitality services and the possibilities of their application. 6. Able to plan the activities of a tourism and hotel sector company and its divisions, anticipating the need for human, financial, and other resources, and their sources. 7. Develops and presents a competitive tourism product. 8. Able to organise the activities of a tourism and hotel sector company and its divisions by defining employees’ functions and responsibilities and anticipating the systems and principles of assessing and monitoring the performance. 9. Communicates responsibly and professionally with the participants in the market, applying the principles and rules of business communication and considering intercultural peculiarities. 10. Independently develops professional and personal skills considering the constantly changing professional environment and market needs and demonstrating responsibility for the impact of the performance and its results. Activities of teaching and learning: Lectures, seminars, discussions, debates, individual and group practical exercises, self-written papers, video views, open to the public the results of presentations, workshops plants, design and research works, case (problem situations) analysis, preparation of articles, integrated tasks. Methods of assessment of learning achievements: The System of Accumulative Assessment is used. Methods of assessment: individual/group integrated projects or/and course/ research papers, tests, reports,

exams, report on a case study and its presentation, report on a video situation and its presentation, project report, presentation of individual assignments, portfolio method, individual/group integrated self-study assignment, observation of a task performance, project group presentation, presentation of individual self-study assignments, final thesis. Framework: Study subjects (modules), practical training: General module of Collegial studies – 15 credits: Tourism economics (Basics of Tourism Economics; Applied Mathematics and Statistics; Basics of Applied Tourism Research). Study field modules - 150 credits: 1. Study modules (105 credits): Business Communication (Business Philosophy; Basics of Document and IT Management; Communication Psychology; Professional English I); Intercultural Communication (Cultural Heritage; Business and Intercultural Communication; Travel Geography; Tourism Anthropology); Business Management (Management; Marketing; Accounting and Finance); Basics of Tourism and Hospitality (Tourism Services and Infrastructure; Tourism Resources in Lithuania; Environment and Human Safety;2nd Foreign Language (Russian/German/French)); Basics of Law and Entrepreneurship (Business Law; Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Change Management; Professional English II), study modules in Tourism Management /Hotel Management / Wellness and SPA Management specialisations. 2. Practical training (30 credits): Professional Internship I (15 Credits), Professional Internship II (15 Credits). 3. Final Thesis (Final Internship, Final Project) (15 Credits). Specialisations: Tourism Management (30 credits): Tourism Management I (Tour Operator Activities; Tourism Marketing; Social Responsibility; Excursions Organization Methodology and Technologies), Tourism Management II (Travel Sales; Destination Management; 2nd Foreign Language (Russian/German/French); Tourism Technologies). Hotel Management (30 credits): Hotel Management I (Hotel Management 1, Hospitality Marketing, Social Responsibility; Organization of Catering Services), Hotel Management II (Hotel Management II; Yield Management; 2nd Foreign Language (Russian/German/French); Social Media). Wellness and SPA Management (30 credits): Wellness Services (Wellness and SPA Services; Basics of Wellness and Resort Science; IT Tools and Marketing of Wellness Services); Spa Services Management (Management of Accomodation Provision Processes in the SPA Sector; Management of Wellness Services Provision Procceses in the SPA Sector; Organization of Catering Services in the SPA

Sector; 2nd Foreign Language (Russian/German/French). Optional courses: Students can choose: · One of the Specialisations (30 credits); · 2nd Business Foreign Language (Russian, German, French); · One of free elective modules (15 credits), e.g. Sustainability and Travel, Wellness and Health Quality, Russian Language and Culture, Active Leisure Organisation, French and Spanish Language and Culture, Personality and Career, etc. Distinctive features of a study programme: • Study programme is based on the modular principle that allows to ensure the interdisciplinary of studies, flexible learning environment, enhance the student’s role in the study process, encourage his/her independence, activeness, responsibility for one’s learning outcomes, integrate the practical and self-study assignments. • Double degree study programme with Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (Finland); • The teachers working for the study programme have experience in tourism business, participation in international projects, expert and consulting activities. • Innovative study methods as well as the main software packages used in business are applied during study process; • Wide possibilities for studying and practical training abroad; • Possibility to choose instruction language (Lithuanian or English). • Students of the programme will study in a higher school or perform practice in business company abroad for one semester. Access to professional activity or further study: Access to professional activity: Depending on specialization, graduates will be ready to work in hotels, travel agencies, tourism information centres and other institutions providing tourism services as well as managers in wellness business companies, state institutions providing wellness services, sanatoriums, spa, wellness and rehabilitation centers, physical therapy clinics, leisure and recreation complexes; they will be able to start and develop their own business. Access to further study: The graduates are entitled to a credit transfer system for entering level one university study programmes, they can choose Master programmes. The continuation of studies is possible in the study programmes in the field of tourism and leisure, management, business in Lithuanian and/or foreign universities.