Higher School of Tourism

The dean of the Higher School of Tourism is Dr. hab., prof. Nikolai I. Kabushkin who is a Merited e mployee of e ducation of the Republic of Belarus .

The Higher School of Tourism (HST) was established by the resolution of the BSEU's Council of May 30, 1995.

At present, the school trains economist managers for tourist industry, hotel and catering business. Besides, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus allowed training economist managers for sanatorium-and-spa resort institutions.

The faculty trains full- and part-time (correspondence) students.

The HST students learn theory and practice of tourism, hotel and catering economics, management, marketing, law, as well as two foreign languages, and gain experience in scientific research.

The most essential element in training at the HST is its organizational and undergraduate practice. It enables students to use their theoretical knowledge in practice and get skills of effective work in tourist business. The School has every possibility for organizing this practical work: the biggest travel firms of the Republic of Belarus – Alatan-Tour, Sunny Travel, SMOK, Padevus, the Belarusian Sputnik, SAKUB, and others – provide work places for training students. This process usually gathers pace in summer. Such cooperation is advantageous for both travel companies and the School itself. The HST pays special attention to linking the teaching process with public and cultural life. It has become a tradition to conduct KVNs and Olympiads among the students of different years.

The School graduates are able to solve different economic and managerial tasks in tourism industry. Knowledge of foreign language enables them to promptly build up business contacts with representatives of foreign travel companies and take effective managing decisions.

The HST graduates occupy leading positions in tourist administrative bodies and at enterprises of tourist industry.

The image of the School in the Republics speaks for the high level of specialist training in tourism, hotel and catering business. It is at the HST where the competition among applicants for the admission to the University is the highest. Various forms of recreation activities, visiting museums and theatres aim at assisting the students to get acquainted with universal values and traditions along with the HST's own traditions. Thus, they celebrate the International Day of Tourism annually. Students usually prepare theatrical performances using some special paraphernalia.

The main forms of educational process are lectures, practical classes, and consultations. The members of the Ministry of Sport and Tourism, travel business people often come to participate in round table discussions. Practical classes in many majors include case studies, analysis of illustrative situations. Other active education methods are in use as well.

Modern lecture rooms, a library (which contains around 1.5 million textbooks and reference books, more than 70,000 journals and newspapers), a reading hall, the Internet Center, video equipment, overhead projectors are at the students' disposal. The Office of Tourism Management effectively operates at the School.

The Higher School of Tourism maintains active international relations. It signed agreements on cooperation with higher educational establishments in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Bulgaria, and Italy. These agreements focus on such forms of cooperation as exchange of groups of teachers and students. Such exchanges in return enhance pedagogic experience and promote scholarship, contribute to in-depth training, enrich lecture courses and exchanges of learning and methodological materials, literature and information on topical issues. The HST actively partakes in TEMPUS programs.

The Higher School of Tourism is a unique chance to get a prestigious higher education in economics and management with majors in tourism, hotel and catering business.

	Address: 7 Sverdlova St. , 220050 Minsk
	Tel./Fax: 209-79-20 220-79-07 209-79-79
	E-mail: vsht@bseu.by