Professional Master in "Tourist Guide"

The Second Cycle of Studies, Professional Master in "Albanian Tourist Guide" offers a sought-after innovation in the Albanian market, especially the regional one. The training framework for this specialty aims to provide knowledge and competences to direct and manage tourist tours, to inform groups of foreign and local tourists about the values, tradition, history, and nature of Albanian tourist destinations. Study program: 1. Offers students the opportunity to deepen and develop knowledge as well as practical and professional skills in the direction of tourist guidance. 2. Enables familiarity with the natural, cultural, archaeological heritage associated with management and marketing knowledge of tourist destinations. 3. Creates premises and trains specialists for specialized tourist guides in the Albanian territory 4. Applies lectures and practice outside the classrooms. Equip students with terminology in the field of tourism, as knowledge and skills necessary for the tourist market. 5. Enables with practical knowledge and tools necessary for employment in the tourism sector. 6. Equip students with the ability to analyze tourism as an integrative spatial process in the context of contemporary mobility. 7. Enables the creation of expert guides to manage tour groups. The Professional Master Program "Albanian Tourist Guide" offers good knowledge in the field of tourism, increasing the professional career opportunities of regional and national tourist guides. Developing technical, interpersonal and conceptual skills makes it possible to employ graduates in businesses of different types and dimensions of the tourism industry, such as: professional tourist guides at private sector tourist agencies, the National Tourism Agency (AKT), the Albanian Association of Tourism (ATA), the National Association of Tourist Guides of Albania (NATGA), professional guides at the Regional Directorates of National Culture (DRKK), the Albanian Tourist Union (UTSH), in Albanian Tourist Agencies and Tour Operators, in tourist accommodation units that require tourist guides for tourists, in various Albanian Museums, as licensed private guides, etc.