The Portorož UP Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, which has been educating and researching tourism for more than a quarter of a century for the needs of sustainable development of the tourism industry in the country and in the world, has renewed its Master's degree program: Tourism. From now on, the content of specific postgraduate subjects will be supported by the most up-to-date research and insights from the field.
Tourism is an industry that is constantly evolving and changing. In order to keep up with the trends, the Master's degree program has also been developed and updated. It is a modern postgraduate program, covering interdisciplinary content from different areas of tourism, offering students a flexible choice and contributing to the implementation of Slovenia's tourism development strategy. It is this the exact goal of the updated Master's program Tourism, which will be carried out in Portorož in the academic year 2022/23.
The structural and content renewal of the program will enable students to acquire sufficiently in-depth knowledge and competencies from the broad field of tourism, while the additional elective modules will provide them with a more substantive and competent orientation covering key areas in today's increasingly diversified and competitive tourism industry. In addition to the professional updates, the second year also offers electives in three different modules that support the three basic content areas of tourism developed by the faculty, i.e. Business-Organization, Social-Humanities, and Spatial-Environmental. The goal is to train Master’s graduates as competitive experts who are able to use modern analytical methods to study and work in different areas of tourism – from the economic, business to the destination level. Students will gain knowledge from broader professional competencies that employers expect and that are necessary for successful integration into the labour market.
The Faculty of Tourism Studies of the University of Primorska (UP FTŠ Turistica) is the first faculty of tourism in Slovenia to offer studies of tourism at all three levels and to teach tourism in a multidisciplinary manner according to an internationally comparable programme. So far, more than 3,000 students have graduated at Turistica and are now employed all over the world.
