Tourism Operations and Management

Tourism Operations and Management Bachelor Programme

Are you aware that tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and the driving force of development, it opens new business opportunities and enables personal career development? If you would like to be a part of this success story and would like to become an expert in tourism and contribute to the local and regional development of tourism, the programme is the right choice for you.

The strongest fields of the programme

New trends in tourism

You will gain knowledge from the cutting-edge fields of tourism – sustainable tourism, hotel management, trend management, development and design of top products and services, social media strategies, etc.

Management and leadership

You will be qualified for human resource management. You will gain modern knowledge for excellent tourism management, while being able to engage in strategic thinking and work planning in tourism.

Innovation

You will think creatively, critically, and differently, as you will understand how to manage tourism in consideration of the main organisational, financial, cultural, social, and sustainable aspects.

Personal development and communication

You will become more independent in your work, responsible, innovative, and prepared for successful teamwork. You will be able to communicate in various environments, in Slovene and in foreign languages.

Programme structure

1st year (60 ECTS)

Compulsory Courses

Economics 9 ECTS
Strategic Planning and Management of Tourism Companies and Organisations 6 ECTS
Informatics 9 ECTS
Marketing 9 ECTS
Legal and Economic Regulation 6 ECTS
Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality 6 ECTS
Business communication 9 ECTS
Business communications and intercultural dialog (English) 6 ECTS

2nd year (60 ECTS)

Compulsory Courses

Business Language – Second Foreign Language 9 ECTS
Human Resource Management 6 ECTS
Accounting and Finance 9 ECTS
Project Management and Teamwork 6 ECTS
Business Statistics 9 ECTS
Inovation and Inovative Management 6 ECTS
Social Media Strategies and Marketing 6 ECTS
Management Support Systems 9 ECTS

3rd year (60 ECTS)

Compulsory Courses

High-quality Product and Service Development in Tourism 6 ECTS
Sustainable Tourism and the Local Environment 6 ECTS
Managing Tourism Trends 6 ECTS
Internship 12 ECTS
Final thesis 12 ECTS
Elective courses 1, 2 and 3 (6 ECTS + 6 ECTS + 6 ECTS)

Elective courses list

Elective courses are chosen by the student from a common pool of elective courses, provided they are not also compulsory courses within the student’s program. The faculty offers those elective courses for which a sufficient number of students have registered.

Digitalisation and the Individual 6 ECTS
Society, State and Ethics 6 ECTS
Family Entrepreneurship 6 ECTS
Gerontology psychology 6 ECTS
Internal Communications 6 ECTS
Public Administration and Public Sector Operations 6 ECTS
Creative Thinking by Edward de Bono 6 ECTS
Cross-cultural Management 6 ECTS
Event Management 6 ECTS
Neuromarketing 6 ECTS
Public Relations and Social Responsibility 6 ECTS
Media Relations 6 ECTS
Organizational psychology 6 ECTS
Organzation of the quality of living 6 ECTS
Enterpreneurship and enterprise culture 6 ECTS
Psychology of personalitiy motivation and emotions 6 ECTS
Human Resource Development 6 ECTS
Social Marketing 6 ECTS
Strategic Planning and Management of Tourism Companies and Organisations 6 ECTS
Sport Psychology 6 ECTS
Artificial Intelligence in Digital Management 6 ECTS

Curricula of Elective Courses