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I. Requirements for Tourism graduates' professional skills and competencies:

This qualification characteristic reflects the scope and level of professional knowledge, skills and competencies that graduates must acquire, as well as the areas of their future professional realization.

This curriculum is in line with the requirements of the modern labor market in Bulgaria, as well as the labor market in China, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam on the basis of purposefully conducted national representative surveys in these three countries under the Erasmus + Program of the EU and its main goal is to meet the growing needs of staff in the field of sustainable tourism and sustainable tourism development.

Students graduating in "SUSTAINABLE TOURISM" receive key competencies in the practical application of the concept of sustainable development and sustainable management in the field of tourism and in all international and state institutions, as well as in all enterprises in the tourism industry wishing to apply this concept. They can be successfully implemented in the field of domestic and international tourism, in scientific organizations, institutions and universities, in the administrations of protected areas, in the administrations for management of tourist destinations in private and state companies with a subject of activity identical to those acquired in time of training in the specialty competencies, in the institutions and organizations of the public administration at the level of central and local government, as well as in international organizations in the field of sustainable development and sustainable tourism.

II. Graduates' competencies:

Specialists having a Sustainable Tourism Bachelor will have the following professional competencies in accordance with level 6 of the EQF, respectively level 6B of the Bulgarian National Qualifications Framework:

1. The capacity for free use in writing and in spoken a foreign language when communicating with tourists and representatives of business partners, contractors, international organizations and public institutions conducting national policy in the field of tourism and regulating tourism;

2. The ability to identify and distinguish relevant needs for the implementation of sustainable management practices and propose appropriate solutions and measures to ensure the sustainability of natural and anthropogenic tourism resources, as well as human and cultural resources in accordance with the characteristics of the tourist destination, for which or in which they work;

3. The necessary capacity to implement international, European and national legislation in the field of sustainable development and sustainable development of tourism, as well as to implement legislation on health and safety at work, social security and consumer protection in compliance with the concept for the sustainable development in the activity of the organization;

4. The ability to choose the appropriate form and method for communication and interpretation of the current state of natural and anthropogenic resources at local, regional and national level in relation to the different types of audiences and participating institutions.

5. The ability to prepare individually or in a team economic analysis and to offer solutions to problematic issues and situations in the daily business activities of tourism companies in connection with the implementation of the concept of sustainable development;

6. The capacity to independently develop and propose management decisions regarding daily business operations and activities in the field of tourism, taking into account the requirements of the concept of sustainable development;

7. The ability to choose and apply the principles of business ethics and the existing international, European and national legislation and regulation in the field of tourism in the internal rules and normative documents of the tourist organizations;

8. The capacity to integrate in a team and to have the capacity to form and organize teams of people to work in the field of sustainable tourism;

9. The capacity to adequately meet the needs of consumers and to choose the appropriate ways to meet them in accordance with the products / services offered by the organization / company;

10. The capacity to coordinate the work of individual employees / departments / divisions in the respective organization / company;

11. To capacity to select and use the appropriate methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis and to apply modern methods for data collection and processing for the needs of business organizations and public institutions in the field of sustainable tourism;

12. The capacity to interpret and comply with current socio-cultural and economic values ​​and values ​​regarding the protection and environmental protection of local communities at local, municipal and national level;

13. The abilty to offer and select appropriate ideas for the development of new tourist products and / or separate new services and production technologies in the field of tourism.

14. The ability to conduct individually or in a team research on tourism markets or audiences of stakeholders and consumers in the field of tourism and to offer adequate to the identified problems marketing and management solutions.

Having completed their studies, Sustainable Tourism graduates will have a set of theoretical and practical knowledge and skills that enable them to start working in various positions in the tourism structures:

- administrations in protected areas;

- administrations for management of tourist destinations;

- hotel complexes and chains, in administrative, executive, expert and managerial positions;

- catering and entertainment facilities;

- travel agencies and tour operators, as organizers and intermediaries of basic and additional services;

- consulting companies in the field of sustainable tourism and tourism in general;

- the public administration in the various institutions and organizations of the central government and the local (municipal) administration;

- non-governmental organizations in the field of tourism, implementing and promoting the concept of sustainable development

- tourism employers and branch organizations;

- international organizations in the field of tourism, in the field of sustainable development and sustainable tourism, as well as in the field of international economic relations and others.