Tourism Theory and Practice

Program description

The master's program is aimed at training specialists with the competencies to solve professional problems in organizational, managerial, design, technological, research and pedagogical fields of activity:

• develop and implement strategic solutions for the effective management of tourism and recreational systems, their components, products and services at the international, national, regional, and local levels; 

• develop and implement proposals to improve strategic management, program-targeted and regulatory support for tourism and recreational activities; 

• develop and carry out examination of projects for the creation and modernization of tourist and recreational infrastructure, products, routes; 

• develop, implement and promote an innovative tourism product using modern geoinformation and information and communication technologies; 

• apply modern educational technologies in training, retraining and advanced training of personnel for the tourism industry. 

A graduate of the program speaks foreign languages ​​and is prepared to work at domestic and foreign enterprises in the tourism industry, in design, consulting, scientific and educational organizations engaged in tourism and recreational activities.

Leading organizations where graduates work  

• Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturizm)

• Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

• Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation

• Russian Union of Travel Industry

• Leading tour operator companies (TUI, Biblio Globus, Alean, Intourist, Coral Travel, etc.)

• Hotel enterprises and hotel management companies (Radisson Collection Hotel (Ukraine), Swissotel Krasnye Holmy, Ritz-Carlton, Azimut Management Company, etc.). 

Basic academic disciplines  

• Strategies for the development of the tourism industry in countries and regions of the world (Alexandrova A.Yu., Aigina E.V.)
• Quality management in tourism industry enterprises (Valkova T.M.)
• Design and management of tourist and recreational clusters (Kruzhalin V.I.)
• Tourist and recreational expertise (Shabalina N.V.)
• Digital technologies in tourism (Magin B.E.)
• E-commerce in tourism (Magin B.E.)