Tourism
(field of studies: Tourism and Hospitality)

Bachelor's

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⇑Tourism at AWFiS w Gdańsku

Field of studies: Tourism and Hospitality

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: physical education, tourism, services

Kind of studies: full-time studies

University website: awf.gda.pl/international

⇑Why choose the Tourism specialisation at AWFiS?

Why study it:

Specialisation: travel from plan to return
Placements: practice in tourist institutions
After graduation: travel careers

Tourism is a specialisation within the Tourism and Hospitality programme (bachelor’s) at the Gdańsk University of Physical Education and Sport (AWFiS), a three-year, full-time course with a practical profile, taught in English. It is aimed at students who would rather plan and run trips than manage hotels.

Specialisation: travel from plan to return

Within the specialisation, the accent falls on the travel side of the industry:

preparing and organising individual and group tourist trips of all kinds
serving clients at every stage of a trip
using modern technologies in the daily work of a travel business
a foreign language geared to the tourism industry

Placements: practice in tourist institutions

A large part of the course is practical and takes place in tourist institutions. Studying in Gdańsk, part of the Tri-city with Sopot and Gdynia, also means learning in a region that is itself a well-known tourist destination.

After graduation: travel careers

Graduates find work in travel agencies and tourist associations. They are also prepared to register, run and settle their own business in the tourism sector.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme page at awf.gda.pl.

⇑Test: Is Tourism the right fit for you?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".

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Tourism

Essentially the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Susan Sontag in: Bruce Robbins Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, NYU Press, 1 January 1999, p. 2

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Tourism

An important feature of Indian tourism industry is its contribution to national integration and preservation of natural as well as cultural environments and enrichment of the social and cultural lives of people. Over 382 million domestic tourists visiting different parts of the country every year return with a better understanding of the people living in different regions of the country. They have a better appreciation of the cultural diversity of India. It also encourages preservation of monuments and heritage properties and helps the survival of art forms, crafts and culture.

In: p. 81-82

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Tourism

The sheep like nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.

Diana Quick in: Caroline Rees Diana Quick's Travelling Life, The Telegraph, 7 September 2013

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