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Professional High School of Tourism – Gabrovo was founded in 1963 as a Vocational School of Catering.
Throughout its existence, the school has constantly developed and adapted its professions, courses and forms teaching to the requirements of the labour market.
This is the reason why the school changed its name in 1993 into Hotel and Catering Secondary School and later in 2003 it is already Professional High School of Tourism.
In the school there are 695students divided into 28 groups. They have day classes and are enrolled in six competitive and mobile courses:
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Management in tourism with an intensive course in English or German, carried out within the framework of a Bulgarian - Austrian Educational Project - admittance after successfully completed 7th grade; |
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Economics and management – admittance after successfully completed 7th grade; |
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Hotel organization - admittance after successfully completed 8th grade; |
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Hotel service organization - admittance after successfully completed 8th grade; |
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Production and service in catering and animation establishments – admittance after successfully completed 8th grade; |
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Production of bread confectionery – admittance after successfully completed 8th grade. |
School Philosophy
Professional High School of Tourism has always been looking for international contacts. It is one of the three pilot schools in Bulgaria in which there the course "Tourism Management" has been introduced as a part of Bulgarian - Austrian Educational Project with emphasis on the sphere of tourism, foreign languages, information technologies and communications.
From the school year 2004/2005 the school takes part in a new Bulgarian - Austrian educational Project - local tourism, which will be finished in October 2007.