The conception of education and the graduate's profile in the scope of the HOTEL TRADE AND TOURISM major. Graduates of this major will be prepared to work in economic subjects and organizations dealing with hotel industry and tourism. The aim and scope of stationary (mural) and nonstationary (extramural) education of economists on a higher professional level, within offered specializations, result from several premises. One of them is a growing demand of tourist economy and its subjects (mainly tourist enterprises) for highly qualified specialists knowing the specifics of touristic services trade, market rules of enterprises functioning, possessing knowledge from the sphere of services marketing, being able to diagnose and create a tourist market on which they act. 

  The aim of studies on this major is:

 • gaining knowledge about functioning a market economy and behaviour of the basic economic subject in conditions of strong internal and external competition, with a particular regard to the specifics of tourist trade (enterprises of tourist traffic organization and service),

 • gaining and developing skills in diagnosing tourist markets (international, national and regional) for qualification of target markets (being a subject of interest of every tourist enterprise), 

• gaining knowledge and skills from the sphere of bases of tourist enterprise management,

 • gaining skills in organizing and servicing different kinds of touristic events as well as providing a wide variety of touristic services offered by travel agencies and hotels,

 • gaining skills in independent creative thinking in categories of a market success with simultaneous predicting economic consequences of market activities,

 •gaining skills in unconstrained socializing with people, based on modern means of communicating (computer techniques), elements of psychology as well as practical knowledge of foreign languages (that is why there is the pressure on linguistic education).

The college also offers, apart from the essential programme of studies, learning two foreign languages on an advanced level: the English and German languages and additionally one language on a basic level (among: French, Spanish, Italian and Russian).

 Moreover, in the frames of the studies programme, students complete vocational training in hotels and travel agencies both in the country and abroad. Students at practices in the firm PORTO CARRAS GRAND RESORT and in the hotel net GRECOTEL (Greece) earn from 14 to 18 EURO a day and they have also free board and accommodation.

 The college has signed contracts about cooperation with 11 partner higher schools.

 We also organize a course for tour guides and studio trips to attractive for tourist countries (Italy, France, Great Britain), on which students gain practical skills in professional organization of touristic events.

 Graduates of these majors can find employment in economic subjects and organizations of touristic and agro-touristic trade or run their own hotels and motels, boarding-houses, rest centres, campsites, sanatoriums and health resorts, agro-touristic farms, and also travel agencies in the country and abroad.

 Detailed information relating to the plan of studies ( the list of subjects and number of hours realized on particular years of studies) can be found on the websites www.etins.edu.pl