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Bachelor's degree in Tourism Management Austria

Faculty: Management and Cultural Studies
Location: IBS Academy Vienna/Innsbruck, Austria
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Standard period of study: 5 semesters, part-time
ECTS points: 180
Enrollment for: Winter and summer semester, depending on demand
Cooperation partner: IBS Academy Vienna/Innsbruck, Austria

With the Bachelor's degree course in Tourism Management at the IBS Academy, you will quickly achieve success. And alongside a job! In tourism in particular, the most interesting and better-paid jobs can only be found at management level. With the first academic degree, Bachelor Tourism Management, you can achieve your dream job. We will help you to realize this dream. We offer you a great work-life-study balance and the opportunity to have your previous education recognized. Because if you have completed a HLW, HLT, HAK or a college, you can study with us for up to three semesters less. And all while working!

  • Admission requirements

    You have a state-recognized qualification:

    • a vocational secondary school (BHS) in Austria  or a commercial academy or
    • a secondary school for business or tourism professions in Austria
    • as a business economist in Germany

    The degree can be credited with up to 60 ECTS points.

  • Target group

    The part-time Bachelor's degree course in Tourism Management is aimed at professionals who have successfully completed training in the fields of tourism, business or commerce and generally want to qualify for management roles. 

    You should be interested in taking a holistic view of tourism processes and have an understanding of employees as well as a high level of stamina. In addition, you should be prepared to actively incorporate the course content into your everyday working life or your practical experience in the classroom.

  • Course content

    The Tourism Management degree program includes online lectures (50 percent), which are held live, as well as attendance phases (50 percent), which enable direct exchange with your lecturers and fellow students.

    In our Tourism Management degree program, we focus on the following areas in a targeted and future-oriented manner:

    • Internationalization
    • destination management
    • Sustainability in the tourism sector
    • Digitalization of the tourism industry

    The course content ranges from tourism economics and e-commerce in the tourism industry to basic management methods. All lectures show interfaces to other areas and create synergies. You can expect the following modules, among others:

    • Destination Management II
    • Destination Management I
       
    • E-commerce tourism industry
    • Empirical Social Research / Statistics
    • Event Management
       
    • Fundamentals of financing
    • Fundamentals of Tourism Economics
    • Hotel management
       
    • Investment & Financing
    • Communication psychology
    • Areas of expertise in tourism
    • management
  • Study program
    • 1st to 3rd semester: basic studies
    • 4th semester: communication psychology, destination management II, law/travel contract law
    • 5th semester: Advanced seminar, Bachelor's thesis and defense
  • Study objective

    The degree course is offered with the aim of training specialists for employment in tourism. It is characterized by an interdisciplinary form of acquiring skills and teaching material.

    This gives students the opportunity to

    • qualify at an academic level while working,
    • acquire generalist knowledge for the management of tourism businesses and
    • develop their methodological, communicative and personal skills in addition to business management expertise
  • Tuition fees

    You can pay your tuition costs with just 274 euros/month!
    The total tuition fee is a minimum of 8,945 euros (with credit for previous knowledge) and a maximum of 11,948 euros (without credit for previous knowledge). The costs include: Registration fee, access to the online learning platform, digital scripts, examination fee and assessment of the Bachelor's thesis. You will not incur any further expenses during the course of your studies.

  • Career prospects

    Career prospects after graduation:

    You will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Tourism (180 ECTS points). Thanks to the comprehensive training, you will be ideally prepared for any area of tourism after graduation. You can get started in the following areas, among others:

    • Meeting management & Event management
    • Tourism association or destination management
    • Management positions in the hospitality industry
    • Tour operators
    • Management positions in the hotel industry
  • Successful reporting procedure

    The study programs were subjected to a notification procedure by  AQAustria in accordance with § 4 para. 2 of § 27-MeldeVO 2019. The positive notification decision for all study programs can bedownloaded here https://www.ibs-akademie.at/download/ergebnisbericht-zum-meldeverfahren-der-hochschule-zittau-goerlitz/  orread on the homepage of  AQ Austria.
    In the event of revocation of the notification decision by the Board of AQ Austria, the study programs may no longer be offered in Austria. The notification of the study programs is valid until 24.11.2027.

    The decision on the notification of the degree programs does not imply a determination of equivalence with Austrian degree programs and corresponding Austrian academic degrees. The studies and academic degrees are deemed to be those of the country of origin or domicile (Germany).
    Equivalence in the higher education sector between Germany and Austria was already established in 2003 by abilateral agreement https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20003247  .

    The international reputation of our degrees can also be seen in the fact that our graduates are accepted with open hands at many renowned universities abroad. Even in elite Oxford, we have an IBS graduate who is completing a PHD program at Oxford Brookes University and is already working there as a lecturer. Former IBS students can also be found at L'institut d'études politiques de Paris, one of the world's best universities in the field of politics and international studies in the World University Rankings, or at the University of St. Gallen, one of the leading business schools in Europe.

Photo: Dipl.-Kffr. Solvig Langschwager
Fachstudienberaterin
Dipl.-Kffr.
Solvig Langschwager
Faculty of Management and Cultural Studies
02826 Görlitz
Furtstrasse 3
Building G IV, Room 2.19
2nd upper floor
+49 3581 374-4266
Allgemeine Studienberatung
Madeleine Pohl
Department of Studies and International Affairs
02763 Zittau
Th.-Körner-Allee 16
Building Z I, Room 0.21
First floor
+49 3583 612-3055