Bachelor in Tourism management

Tourism management is a bachelor's degree program at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, based in Lublin, Poland, running three years, across six semesters, and taught in English, with a start date of 2026-10-01 and an application deadline of 2026-09-15. Tourism is described as the fastest growing industry in the business world, and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University offers an education rich in both theory and practice. The Tourism Management programme is attractive for the range of career prospects it offers, aiming broadly to prepare graduates for services in the tourism sector, described as one of the most rapidly developing branches of the world economy. The programme gives students an understanding of the diverse conditions of tourist phenomena across varied natural and cultural environments, and enables them to acquire skills in planning and organizing different tourist activities as well as providing services related to tourism traffic. Two compulsory modules teach the mechanisms behind how the tourism industry functions and help frame students' organizational skills within the tourism domain, while elective modules allow students to pursue individual interests. Drawing on both natural and social sciences, the programme is described as multidisciplinary, flexible, and covering a broad cultural context, giving students the tools for multidimensional understanding of tourism phenomena and for organizing tourist activities in varied circumstances. Tourism management as a field combines geography, business administration, and cultural studies, applied to the planning and operation of travel and visitor services. Completing the programme enables further study at master's level, and graduates commonly pursue careers in tour operations, destination management organizations, hospitality businesses, and public bodies responsible for tourism policy.