Dear students of the Department of Tourism Studies of the University of Piraeus, I congratulate you on your successful admission to one of the best Departments of Undergraduate Studies in Greece and I welcome you!

In the Department of Tourism Studies, the passion for excellence guides us and inspires us to constantly research and update our knowledge, for the benefit of our students, but also society in general. We believe that our students should have an educational experience that equips them with the knowledge and potential for a successful career in today’s turbulent business tourism environment. To offer our students such an important quality educational experience, the Department has a carefully designed Curriculum. Courses related to the Tourism Industry, Tourism Management, Human Resource Management, Accounting and Finance for Tourism, Tourism Marketing, New Technologies, are integrated with innovative methods and ideas to create future leaders in the field Tourism and the Tourism Industry in general. Such a broad education offering aims to empower students to recognize and solve problems, acquire values, set their own goals and act accordingly in a broad field of human endeavour.

As students you will have the opportunity to work with the faculty to develop the necessary skills to face the challenges of the modern tourism environment. The Department follows with undiminished interest the changing trends and will constantly make innovative changes to the Curriculum, in order to constantly create the competitive edge, as a result of which our graduates have as complete knowledge as possible of what is happening in the field of modern Tourism Studies. We want our graduates to be tourism executives of a high scientific level.

We are moving forward with great enthusiasm to face the challenges of a demanding business tourism environment, not overlooking the important day-to-day issues. The combination of a dynamic, innovative curriculum that takes advantage of state-of-the-art technologies with distinguished faculty and hardworking students is the foundation of the new Department’s success. Our faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and in a few years our graduates, are set to create an unparalleled network of people that will set the highest standards for leadership in the global tourism industry. Realize your potential and become a member of this network, laying the foundation for a distinct, bright future.

I wish you a creative academic life and I look forward to meeting you at our University!

Professor Angelos Kotios
President of the Department of Tourism Studies