Department of Hospitality Management 

Department Head: Professor Rostom Beridze

Department of Hospitality Management is a major educational, academic and scientific structural unit consisting of the academic personnel and assisting staff from the tourism industry, as well as the invited specialists.

Educational Priorities:

Vocational Educational Programs:

• Hotel proceedings  - 10 months (IV level, pre-requisite: diploma of the III level)
• Hotel proceedings - 6 months (III level; national exams)
• Restaurant proceedings - 6 months (III level; national exams)

The Bachelor educational program  - Tourism - 4 years.

The Bachelor educational program (Minor) - Tourism - 2 years. 

The Master educational program –Tourism Management - 2 years. 

Research priorities:

• Determining the role of operational strategies in the development of the hotel business;
• Developing change management in a tourism company;
• Developing integrated marketing communications as a tool for the advancement of the tourism product;
• Developing methodological foundations for the formation and implementation of innovative tourism products;
• Developing a strategy for the development of the regional tourism industry in the conditions of globalization;
• Forming a management mechanism for tourism organizations using outsourcing;
• Forming an integrated system for managing sustainable tourism development in the region;

Publications:

1. Charles R. Geldner, J. R. Brent Ritchie. Tourism: Fundamentals, Practice, Theory. 12th edition: Transl. Eng. - Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Publishing House, 2013. - 554 p.
2. Paata Chaganava. Tourism Policy. Publishing House "Universal", Tbilisi. 2012. -330 p.
3. Paata Chaganava. Risk Management. Publishing House "Universal", Tbilisi. 2013. -340 p.
4. International Scientific-Practical Conference “Tourism: Economics and Business” 2010, June 5-6, Batumi-Trabzon (Collection).
5. International Scientific-Practical Conference “Tourism: Economics and Business” 2011, June 4-5, Batumi.
6. International Scientific-Practical Conference “Sustainable Tourism: Economics and Business” 2012, June 2-3, Batumi (Collection).
7. International Scientific-Practical Conference “Innovations in Tourism: Economics and Business” 2013, June 8-9, Batumi-Trabzon (Collection).
8. International Scientific-Practical Conference "Tourism: Economics and Business" 2014, July 5-6, Batumi-Khikhani Gorge (Collection).
9. International Scientific-Practical Conference "Tourism: Economics and Business" 2017, June 10-11, Batumi

The academic staff of the department consists of 1 professor, 3 associate professors, and 3 assistant professors selected through a competitive process. Advanced professors, professional practitioners, and foreign specialists are invited.