The field of tourism management plays an important role in training the business operators needed by some of the main and supporting sectors of the tourism industry. However, tourism management; It aims to train managers who are able to share both our cultural gains and our contribution to our human resources and their financial gains to the country's economy when you implement a strategy based on the labor-intensive and general knowledge that we provide services and the conditions and dynamics that distinguish the tourism industry from other sectors are very important. Sub-sectors in the tourism sector need individuals who have knowledge of human resources management and organization accounting and payment in their own companies and have problem solving skills through this analysis. Finally, the entrepreneurial nature of the education provided in the field of tourism management ensures that our country is invested in this field from local resources and at the right time in the right place.
From an academic point of view, when we include more than 30 tourism management programs in our country, which are offered education at the undergraduate level, when we add the programs affiliated to the departments operating under the name of tourism and hotel management hotel management, this number exceeds 50. However, the number of higher education institutions providing graduate education in this field is around 20 and this number is only 4 in the Black Sea region. Considering the tourism potential of our country and Samsun, the increasing number of tourists and the need for qualified tourism operators, it is obvious that the existing departments will not be sufficient to meet this need. In addition to this, in order to be successful in the tourism-related part of our country's vision of 2023 and the targets set accordingly, local administrators and local administrators of the region and the city have contributions and supports to the field of tourism, and it is high in the academic sense to contribute to these goals and to educate managers and directing individuals beyond. Undergraduate education plays a vital role.
Especially in the tourism sector, which is one of the pioneering sectors of our country, it is growing with each passing period in order to ensure the sustainability of tourism that will respond to the needs of both domestic and foreign active tourism, increasing employment opportunities in the development of the local and regional economy, and in the correct management of touristic enterprises that are critical in the development of the city and the region. Tourism professionals with a bachelor's degree are of critical importance. At this point, universities have a major role in training professional operators to meet the needs of the tourism industry, but especially individuals with tourism management graduates cannot find a master's degree in the city where they live, and it is not possible for working individuals to develop themselves academically and professionally. This situation prevents individuals in managerial positions of the touristic businesses in the city and the region from having higher levels of competence, and this leads to the inability of these businesses to use their current potential.
The graduate tourism management education to be given in the relevant department will ensure that the graduates of the tourism management education are equipped to perform their professions in our country in a more visionary and more professional manner, as well as improving the services provided by the touristic businesses in the region and the city. Tourism Management II. In addition to the tourism management profession, students who graduate from the Teaching Non-Thesis Master's Program have the opportunity to work in other public institutions, provided that they get enough points from the Public Personnel Selection Exam, if they wish. Graduates who do not want to work in public institutions and organizations will also have employment opportunities in middle and senior management positions in any of the tourism businesses, especially in travel businesses, with their tourism education. In addition, graduates who want to pursue an academic career can work as a lecturer in a program of any university, if they meet the necessary conditions.