The Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a Major in Leisure & Tourism Management is a future-oriented program that tackles the challenges of the tourism and leisure industry in a fast paced global evolution. The program provides candidates with the managerial integrity and key skills and tools to successfully lead in an industry that demands sustainability, innovation, creativity and environmental challenges.

Business Ethics

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of ethics, philosophy, and the translation of these concepts to the organizational culture and decision-making processes both in management as well as on employee level. The course also outlines the industry trends on corporate social responsibility and sustainability as a fundamental ethical pillar in the enterprise that is to succeed in today’s world.

Personality Development

Personal development is a holistic psychical-spiritual process. ‘Spiritual’ always refers to values and meaning beyond the materialistic world. The psychical reality is the field of personal development. Human behavior is mostly tied to the individual psychical-spiritual state of a person, the result of countless forming processes since the prenatal time. The highest aim is a well-balanced development of all psychical forces, including basic patterns of dealing with life and people, towards efficiency, quality and wholeness. The course provides the essential knowledge about the characteristics of the development of ‘personality’ during the course of one’s life and reveals the importance of a consciously managed self-development (self-forming) in order to become strong and constructive for business and life.

Environments of Tourism

This course gives students a comprehensive insight to tourism planning and development with a clear awareness of the impacts of tourism on economic, socio-cultural, and physical environments. Students get to explore the issues concerning the relationship between host and visitors, environmental impact, and the keys to sustainable tourism.

Culture & Cross Cultural Management in Tourism

This course gives students the perspective into cultural differences such as verbal and non-verbal communication due to differing beliefs, signs or language to provide an understanding of these elements in order to efficiently manage them for organizations to achieve their goals. Tourism is inherently multi-cultural and therefore this aspect is vitally relevant for tourism organizations to achieve their goals.

E-Business in Tourism

This course provides a diverse understanding of the elements involved in e-business in Tourism. The course covers a range of aspects both from the perspective of the consumer as well as the service provider and the organizational environment.

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