»DEPARTMENT OF HOTEL-RESTAURANT AND CATERING
Location : Taşmescit Campus
e-mail: turizm@karatekin.edu.tr
COURSE CONTENTS:
Developments in communication and transformation areas increase development momentum in tourism sector and mass tourism. Turkey receives an important share from tourism with its geopolitical position and natural, cultural and historical wealth. Due to growing in the sector and sector`s labour intensive structure, skilled work force is required. Furthermore, tourism sector revives other sectors such as accommodation, eating and drinking, guiding, animation etc.
PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM
The fundamental purpose of Tourism and Hospitality Management Program is educate and train skilled workforce who has required theory knowledge and sectorial experiments, capable to use specific foreign languages and computer, obtained analytic thinking and problem solving, follows evolvement of tourism in Turkey and across the world, internalize perpetual learning principle and who can serve as middle level managers and staffs to take roles in production processes.
Some fields of interest of Tourism and Hospitality Management are;
• Accommodation 
• Travel Agency and Tour Operator
• Car Renting
• Food and Beverage Services
• Cleaning Service Management
• Reservation Services
• Ticket Agency
AVAILABLE GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS FOR GRADUATED STUDENTS
Successfully graduated students with succeed External Transfer Exam (DGS) can register undergraduate programs above:
• Management
• Management - Economy
• Accommodation Management
• Accommodation Management Teaching
• Tourist Guiding
• Tourism Management and Hospitality
• Tourism and Hospitality Management
In addition to this, after their graduation they can register Anatolia University Open Education Management Faculty without an extra exam and they can continue their undergraduate education as from 3rd year.
WORKING FIELDS AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Graduated with "Tourism Professional Staff" title, our students acquire all knowledge and skills that provide them to work in whole tourism sector especially in accommodation facilities. Graduated students from Tourism and Hospitality Management can be employed in the sectors of;
• Accommodation facilities,
• Food-Beverage Business (Restaurant, Cafe, Catering),
• Airlines Business,
• Various Transportation Firms,
• Tourist Guiding,
• Culture and Tourism Ministry,
• Tourism Writing and Photography,
• Congre-Conferance Centers,
• Bed and food-beverage services in hospitals,
• Tourism Information Centers.
APPLICATION OPPORTUNITIES
In Tourism and Hospitality Management Program; laboratories related to kitchen, food and beverage service and housekeeping, multi-purpose meeting rooms and application restaurants are available. Furthermore, cooking equipment, service equipment and presentation equipment is open to use about laboratories.
CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION
Students graduated from Hospitality Tourism Occupational High School and Hospitality Services` of Girl`s Vocational Schools can register "Tourism and Hospitality" under secondary program without exam.
Except feature graduates from open admission determined occupational high schools and related fields, students should be enter to Higher Education Entrance Exam (YGS), and they have to receive sufficient Equally-Weighted (EA) point. After materialized these conditions, if there is additional empty quotas later open admission completed, they will emplacement empty quotas
PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS