Tourism is global. By studying this program only the sky is the limit to where you can work and what you can do. The Bachelor of Science in Tourism Management (BSTM) curriculum was designed to provide a deeper understanding of tourism as an activity, how the tourism industry is organized and developed, how it influences society locally and globally, and how contemporary issues affect the industry and the people. It also integrates dynamic changes and strategic development in the industry.
As the speed of globalization and technological advancement continues to deliver the shift in policies, business practices, and consumer behavior shape the tourism and hospitality industry, it becomes even more dynamic and professionally compelling for skills to be enhanced. In response, the curricular revision consistently establishes the BS in Tourism Management program of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines to ensure true impact and greater sustainability with long-term engagement from supporting partnerships, and resultantly equipping students for a future characterized by the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) environment. Similarly, the revision commits to contributing to the university’s existing performance rating in its pursuit of being acknowledged as a National Polytechnic University.
The BSTM program integrates the theory and practice of business tourism to produce highly preferred managers and creative entrepreneurs who are globally competitive with their practical and critical skills, strong work values of resilience, ethics, and service – culture (main goal)
This multidisciplinary program prepares students to contribute to fostering a highly competitive and environmentally sustainable tourism industry that focuses on creating inclusive growth. (NTDP 2015-2022, UN-SDGs) (theoretical foundation).
Graduates qualify for a broad range of opportunities encompassing tourism and other allied industries to perform technical, practical, entrepreneurial, and professional tasks relevant to the different pillars of tourism, such as tour and travel operations, transportation, accommodation, food and beverage, events management, entertainment and recreation, research, tourism planning, and development and other allied services (key features of the program).
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