In the tourism sector, which is one of the precursor sectors of our country, tourism employees with master's degrees have a crucial role in meeting the increasing needs of both domestic tourism and active foreign tourism, ensuring the sustainability of tourism, developing the local and regional economy, providing employment opportunities and accurately managing touristic enterprises that play an important role in the development of the city and the region. At this point, although universities have a vital mission to train professional operators to meet the needs of the tourism industry, individuals with bachelor degrees do not have any opportunity for a master's degree in their city, and working individuals can't develop themselves academically and professionally. This prevents employees in managerial positions from having a higher level of competence in touristic enterprises in the region. In addition, it causes businesses not to be able to use their current potential.
Thanks to postgraduate level tourism management training, it will enable graduates to perform their professions in a more visionary and professional fashion and improve the region's services offered by touristic enterprises in the region. In addition to the tourism management profession, students who have a postgraduate degree from Tourism Management Program with Thesis have the opportunity to work in other public institutions provided that they receive sufficient points from the Public Personnel Selection Exam if they wish. With the tourism education they have received, 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 tourism enterprise, especially travel enterprises. In addition, graduates who want to pursue an academic career can work as an academician in a program related to the fields of any university if they meet the necessary conditions. Considering all these conditions, opening a Master's Program with Thesis in Tourism Management Department will make essential contributions to training highly educated workforces for both the relevant sectors and academic fields at the urban, regional, and national levels.
One of the main objectives of the Master's Program with Thesis in Tourism Management is to contribute to the university's education, give students deep knowledge about the professional subject of Tourism Management, and show how to use the existing knowledge in practice. In addition to the current Tourism Management Master's programs in Turkey, the program will increase the number of trained workforces in the field of Tourism Management and contribute to meeting the needs of qualified personnel of both Samsun and the region.