Tourism Management – (MBA)

The University of New York in Prague offers a number of professional life long education graduate programs for those students wishing to develop their careers and to prepare for senior positions. The MBA courses run over the weekends, making them ideal for working professionals who want to enhance their skill levels and careers, but who don't want to interrupt their work schedules. If committing to a regular time is a problem, then our on-line flexible learning option is available. Students study from home, but have the option to attend on campus instruction, which combines the best of both worlds.

Tourism activities represent a significant proportion of the economies of many countries. With the increasingly global and highly competitive travel and tourism market, comes a need for highly qualified professional managers. This life long education course includes basic concepts of business and financial management as well as specific applications to the field of tourism. Participants are given the means to comprehend and use basic and advanced tools to successfully understand the tourism industries and to run a tourism business.

Upon completing the program, the successful candidate should be able to:

* Manage a company under conditions of permanent economic fluctuation;
* Communicate successfully with both internal and external stakeholders;
* Adapt tourism products to the new and evolving demands of the customers;
* Introduce significant new technologies and understand the challenges of these technologies;
* Manage tourism companies and areas on a level compatible with the current structures of the market;
* Understand and consider environmental, ethical and social issues.